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Former MSNBC national security analyst Malcolm Nance appeared on “The ReidOut” Monday with host Joy Reid and announced that he has joined Ukrainian forces in their fight against the brutal Russian invasion, raising a whole host of questions about his actions.
Nance spent 20 years in the US Navy and has now joined the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. He has reportedly left MSNBC to do so which explains his absence in recent weeks and why he has not been covering the war. He allegedly left the US shortly following Russia invading Ukraine after watching what was going on. His title now is evidently executive director of The Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies.
“Well, as you know, I spent quite a bit of time here in the pre-war period, and when the invasion happened I had friends in Donetsk in the Ukrainian army who are writing to us and telling us we’re not going to survive tonight. We’ve been hit 500 times,” Nance dramatically told Reid during a live interview from an undisclosed location.
“You know, the more I saw of the war going on, the more I thought, ‘I’m done talking,’ all right?’” he asserted from a proclaimed secure location. “It’s time to take action here. So, about a month ago, I joined the International Legion here in Ukraine and I am here to help this country fight, you know, what essentially is a war of extermination.”
I’m DONE talking. #JoinTheLegion #StopRussia #SlavaUkraini pic.twitter.com/ob3gL1cZ7P
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) April 19, 2022
According to Nance, the legion is comprised of men and women from all over the world who have come to Ukraine to fight what he calls an “extermination” of civilians and culture.
“I am here to help this country fight what is essentially a war of extermination. This is an existential war, and Russia has brought it to these people and they are mass murdering civilians. And there are people here like me who are here to do something about it,” he stated.
“We’re here for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to protect the innocent people of Ukraine from this Russian aggression. It’s not a conventional war,” Nance asserted to Reid. “They are destroying infrastructure and go to the cities and they massacre men, women, and children and that is the fundamental reason everyone is here.”
Nance claimed that he is one of “thousands” who have joined the fight with Ukrainian troops against Russia.
“The war that is being waged here is being waged against everybody. They are not going around hunting for American flag patches or to see who’s black, who’s Asian, who’s Latino,” he noted.
Nance said that they were “fighting side by side, elbow to elbow” with Ukrainian forces. He reported that the Russians are “barely” attacking Ukrainian troops. “Their emphasis seems to be the mass murder of civilians, which seems to be against all laws of war. These are war crimes,” he charged.
SEND UKRAINE LONG RANGE ARTILLERY! pic.twitter.com/WIJgZzESDN
— Bathsheba Dreams in Blue 🌻🌻🌻 (@Inkling61) April 19, 2022
Decked out in fatigues bearing American and Ukrainian flags while slinging a rifle in an unconventional manner, Nance proclaimed that his mission was to protect civilians. His appearance on the network ostensibly looked staged and smacked of propaganda to many who watched his interview.
A number of people who watched the clip had comments and questions about the validity of Nance’s joining up with the Ukrainians and his apparently scripted appearance on “The ReidOut.”
> Wearing your rifle sling all the way around your neck bc you don’t know what it’s for pic.twitter.com/1Qf0FvHg77
— Jack Posobiec ☦️ (@JackPosobiec) April 19, 2022
One Twitter commenter unceremoniously tore into him over his gear, “Glorfied airsofter. Look at that geardo with his SoF helmet and gear. That helmet doesn’t protect your ears or side against shrapnel effectively. Its meant for specialized raiding units like SF.”
Stephen Lowell, a GOP candidate in Minnesota for the Senate, also dissed the getup, “Nobody slings a rifle like that. Not even at rest. The devil really is in the details.”
It should also be noted that Nance was with MSNBC since 2007 and wrote the book, “They Want to Kill Americans – The Militias, Terrorists, and Degranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency.”
WARNING: 62 days before 1/6 I warned on @RealTimers that Trump would start a political/paramilitary insurgency to seize American democracy. It has begun. I detail the Trump Insurgency in my coming book: pic.twitter.com/XHF2wvAJFU
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) January 3, 2022
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13 thoughts on “‘Done talking!’ MSNBC analyst leaves to join fight in Ukraine, but some folks have questions”
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What a total crock. The entire television “news” coverage of the war is cartoon level propaganda.
Why would anyone listen to the closet drag queen Joy Reid or anyone at MSNBC-it is just a network of Leftist loons that would not know objectivity or fairness in reporting if they fell on their biased and partisan heads
He’s in the backyard of one of his fat white girlfriends in Oakland.
Something not passing the smell test here. That’s besides his racist American hating views.
Promoting your book is the icing on the cake, Nance! MSNBC is as bad as CNN! Fake news baiters. We have a war on the border and you want to go to a country that is NOT in NATO and fight! The Russia Ukraine war is not our problem. Yet, Demoncrats and Rinos want to send our men, money, and our armory to Ukraine! Use our military to protect our country that’s being invaded! Don’t get me wrong, I feel for everyone involved in this war on both sides. America has no idea what lies underneath the cover or why this is really going on there. Do you think if we were in a war that, they would come and help us?
The illegal in the WH should have kept his mouth shut along with his cronies. All this administration did was incite this war. They couldn’t even get out of Afghanistan the right way! While bringing terrorists into our country. We have such WEAK people running the United States, it is past pathetic. It’s like an insane asylum.
Why didn’t you take Joy Reid with, and leave her there?
That’s a good one!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now there’s a dramatic gesture!
Value signaling with a GUN!
Paintball warfare will stop a lot of missiles? It’s obvious he never held or used a weapon in the Navy, maybe a janitor
Hopefully the Russians will drop a mortar round on this racist piece of sh*t’s head.
This person spent 20 years in the Navy doing what? It really sounds like he is grand standing to sell a book!!
Anyone who sees this as anything other than “pulling a Smollett” by another journo-liberal of a particular pigmentation permutation is in for a shock. He couldn’t fight his way out of a closet in that botched rig, let alone the Russians. Check the sling. When the rifle falls, it’s upside down. Brilliant, Barney!
Brilliant observation, I guess they are gaslighting the public into supporting an unpopular war.