Foreigners fighting for Ukraine

+ understanding the Crimean Tatars US Edition - Today's top story: Ukraine's foreign fighters have little in common with those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War [View in browser]( US Edition | 17 March 2022 [The Conversation]( According to some reports, thousands of people from around the world have signed up to fight for Ukraine’s military. These international volunteers have been compared to the International Brigades that fought on behalf of Spain’s democratically elected Popular Front against fascist-backed nationalists from 1936 to 1939. To Spanish Civil War scholar Sebastiaan Faber, the impulse to use the historical analogy is understandable: Both wars seem to reflect an unusual degree of moral clarity. But, he writes, doing so [glosses over the real reason many foreigners signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War]( and ultimately does more to obscure than to explain either conflict. 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