Everyone Who's Resigned From the Trump Administration in Protest - Feb 23, 2025

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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers! Editor's Pick The hottest job in a world at war: Gun-for-hire | Mint Yet the danger hasn’t stopped them from signing up. On Ukraine’s front lines, the flow of veterans from far-flung conflicts has helped sustain the war. The arrival of foreign volunteers has also turned trenches into a babel of foreign tongues. Ukraine says 20,000 international soldiers have joined its ranks. They come from the nearby Caucasus and as far afield as the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and South America. Recruits include Argentines once deployed in Haiti, Brazilians who fought narco-traffickers, and Algerians and Kenyans who battled al Qaeda in Africa, according to interviews and social-media profiles. In Pinilla’s own formation, a veteran of the Taiwanese army, which faces threat of invasion by China, died in October 2022, according to the government in Taipei. Continued here Editor's Note: Some mercenaries are adrenaline junkies. 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