Capt. Paul Kim is one of the most recent American soldiers to die pointlessly to cover up Biden’s money laundering in Ukraine. Contradictory media reports about his status at the time raise an important question. Are these fallen soldiers actually “volunteers” or are they current members of our armed forces acting on orders from the Biden administration?
Consider Paul Kim, who was allegedly killed in combat on October 5 near Kherson. According to his obituary:
Paul was born Oct. 7, 1987 in Irving, Texas to Young Sik Kim and Sook Kim. He graduated from Aledo High School in 2006 and joined the United States Army where he proudly served his country for 12 years. Upon completing his military career, he graduated from the University of Oklahoma.
Paul was passionate in traveling, learning and teaching about history and culture, and was a foodie. He was selfless and always put others before himself. He loved Oklahoma football, dad jokes, puns, and his friends and family. Paul was a devoted Catholic and active in his church community.
This directly contradicts reports from the Ukrainian media:
Paul was born in Houston, Texas. Like most foreign legionnaires, he had valuable experience: he devoted twelve years of his life to the US Army, in particular, he served in the 82nd Airborne Division, a contingent of troops in Iraq. The American studied at the University of Oklahoma and mastered the military profession at the Ranger School and the United States Army Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia. At the time of transferring to the reserve, Kim had the rank of captain of the US Army.
The Ukrainian version is actually more believable. If he was a captain, it’s much more likely to me that he attended an officer training course, as opposed to serving as an enlisted man and commissioned later. Kim was one year older than me, was a captain in the infantry branch of the US Army (indicated by the blue cord and crossed rifles on his uniform). If he continuously served since graduating high school in 2006, that would theoretically put his time in service now at roughly 16 years. But since I couldn’t find any dates for his time, it’s equally possible that he served the minimum time required by his commission and transfered to the reserves immediately afterward.
Unfortunately I could not find any photos of him with the hashmarks on the left sleeve visible, which would prove how long he had served when the photo was taken.
I have to admit it is entirely possible he completed his obligations to the reserves many years ago and went to Ukraine on his own volition as a private citizen. However, the circumstances surrounding his time fighting for Ukraine are strange. According to the news report I linked above, he arrived to the Ukraine war in August. This is peculiar in itself since the vast majority of pro-Kiev foreign volunteers/mercenaries arrived right at the beginning of Russia’s operation in March. By August, every western government had long since stopped publicly encouraging their citizens to go to Ukraine as mercenaries. What circumstances led to Kim deciding, this late in the game, to join the neo-nazis?
There are two other possibilities:
-He was in fact still in the reserves and was approached with an offer to deploy as a commander leading Ukrainian conscripts in onslaughts against Russian settlements.
-He was out of the reserves and a private citizen but still, for whatever reason, approached with this offer.
The truth is murky and it might be years before we learn the truth, assuming we learn it at all. However, there is one glaring point in all this. The only reason this story became somewhat public knowledge is because a Ukrainian newspaper chose to report it. If they hadn’t, it wouldn’t have become news. How many dozens, or hundreds, of American soldiers has Biden sent to their deaths to in Ukraine, and successfully kept out of the news?
If you think I’m crazy for suggesting such a conspiracy is possible, consider Ukrainian casualties. War Tears, a project dedicating to calculating Ukrainian casualties based on their personnel records and information requests, puts the current tally at over 106,000 killed in action. Yet not a single mainstream western news outlet even tries to speculate about how many Ukrainian soldiers have been killed. Every “democratic” journalist reporting on the Ukraine war considers himself a patriotic soldier fighting the good fight. And part of that fight is deliberately concealing Ukrainian losses. If journalists successfully lie about Ukrainian casualties, of course they can also do this with casualties from Ukraine’s western backers.
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I wonder how many of them are white if at all. I mean, I hear reports of many back mercenaries speaking English. Of course, ppl in Donbass are not used to black people and they simply overestimate their presence however big it is. But this guy is also not white. So, I wonder how deliberate it could be.
Black and English-speaking does not necessirily mean American.
They can be from anywhere, poor African countries for example. And English is just lingua franca.
Good point.
And if it is deliberate what’s the convoluted reasoning?
> Paul was passionate in traveling, learning and teaching about history and culture
He probably should have ‘done his own research’ to figure out who it was he fought for.
https://twitter.com/Blackrussiantv/status/1588620168829501440
Something tells me the floodgates are going to blow wide open on this after the Dems get obliterated in the midterms.
Randolorian, thanks for the link. Black folks are definitely not welcome in racist Nazi Ukraine.
Yeah, after the midterm slaughter the ground around Kerson will be frozen and the floodgates will burst!
I don’t wish harm on anyone, but Mr. Kim definitely falls into the “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” category
that sums it up. i’d also add what many pro-russian bloggers have mentioned: the US and its “servicemen” haven’t faced a real foe since WWII. if he started his “service” in 2006 that lines up with some of the most f_cked up events in iraq.
shooting at arab grannies and “lighting up” a roadblock filled with civilian vehicles is hardly good prep for facing highly trained and well armed russians. if this is the same guy i read about months ago i’d say he definitely chose to go thinking he’d be a badass rambo because he got his life advice from CNN.
Is this the same guy? https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-kim-67b74315
Definitely still active in the military arena.
Just checked the link. You have to copy and paste the URL to get the link to work.
PK Not any more, as of now I get 404.
404 isn’t the right status code, it’s 410
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410
Jokes aside, see my other comment about what to put in the search query
Honestly I haven’t used my Linkedin profile for ages, I’ll have to check next time I’m in front of my laptop. I DID search on Linkedin without success. Kim is a VERY common Korean surname in the USA. All the guys I was able to find looked too old to be him, or attended the wrong university.
I had to search Paul Kim Oklahoma and it turned up the same link that PK posted. Definitely lines up with the obituary.
FWIW he received one endorsement for ‘Risk Assessment.’ This proves that LinkedIn assessments ain’t worth shit.
Ooh, I am also a certified expert at “Operational Risk Management” (ORM). Apparently, I am better at it than Capt. Kim, since I’m alive and he’s not.
This is an extremely interesting post for a couple of reasons. I was interested in knowing about American casualties (and other NATO countries) and tried to get an idea of how many British “ex” soldiers, etc., may have been killed. I drew a blank on how to search for this info in the UK.
Now, there has been a lot of discussion about who is operating NATO equipment, especially HIMARS. The reason is, it takes months to train up on all this hi-tech equipment and yet it is being used almost immediately. So, the supposition is that “volunteers” are manning this. For HIMARS that would mean “ex” members of the U.S. Army.
Hence, I find this post points to the “hiring” (we don’t know the basis or motivation for these “volunteers”) of Americans (and as I state above, other nationals) who have the requisite skills.
Recently, I read that Russian radio intercepts document Polish, Rumanian and other Eastern European languages, suggesting involvement from these countries.
Also, there has been the admission that the U.S. has “boots on the ground” to monitor the disubursement and whereabouts of military aide. Some commentators on this make the point the reason such information has now surfaced is to condition the U.S. public to the emergence of the loss of U.S. military personnel.
The above story is IMHO an indication that American nationals are in Ukraine and are engaged in the conflict in a way that probably still maintains a thin veneer of deniability of official involvement but is part and parcel of the U.S. administration’s attempts to (a) prop up Kiev’s war effort and (b) prolong the conflict.
I find it very sad that American servicemen or ex-servicemen and those of nother nations are either bribed or cajolled into taking an active part in the conflict.
According to the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 565 people arrived from the US citizens to fight on the side of Kiev, of which 241 were killed, 243 escaped, 81 remained in service as of August 5, 2022.