Georgian Legion Cleared
After just six short months of smeary innuendo.
If you’ve browsed the Chew Toys section you might have noticed grifting shitbag Richard Anderson Sharp III. He had been in some sort of courier role for the Georgian Legion, and being the grifty shitbag that he is, he pulled some ID theft on legion founder Mamuka Mamulashvili and his sister, creating a nonprofit here in the U.S. using their names.
There’s been an irregular stream of smeary bullshit about GL and I’ve patiently waited until I could slap it down with authority. One of their men brought me what I needed to do that last Friday.
Clearing Event:
Given that I’d read Sharp’s allocution in his first federal fraud conviction, I assumed he was the point source of the trouble, but I’ve quietly waited for something very public to validate that the GL is still in good graces. This video of an award ceremony on March 14th was precisely what I needed to go public.
What you see here is Mamuka in a room with fifty other guys all receiving an award. I am told this was for participation in the Kursk incursion, but people are naturally reticent about details.
Here’s Mamuka receiving his plaque.
Distinctive profile on the major general handing it to him, eh? That’s Hero of Ukraine Ihor Hordiichuk. If 1/10th of the smeary crap I heard about GL the last six months was true Mamuka would have never gotten through the door.
Here’s the plaque.
And here’s Mamuka signing for the Georgian Legion, among the other units.
Judgment:
There is absolutely a federal investigation aimed at Sharp, but having been through a couple of these, I do not imagine the guy that pissed me off is even going to get charged. A lot of times the DOJ is angling for bigger fish, and a guy like Sharp will either be too small for their capacity, or he’ll snitch on fellow travelers, or maybe he actually does something for someone and it needs to be kept quiet.
It’s vanishingly rare for the DOJ to publish an exoneration, anyone attempting to suggest Mamuka and Nona are still involved with Sharp’s schemes is either inexperienced or they’ve got an ax to grind.
I have one personal GL story to share. An American I know was in Ukraine in the summer of 2022 and had a misadventure, leaving them stranded. I knew a guy, who knew this other guy, some calls were made. Twelve hours later a couple GL members on leave scooped up the American, transported them, and left them in a place where they could safely continue on their way.
Conclusion:
There has been a LOT of crap slung at every aspect of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia aggression, it’s a broad cluster of influence operations. I’m pleased I get to undo a little bit of that. My experience with the members of the group was prompt, professional assistance on what was otherwise an intractable problem.
They are the guys who get the job done. Their military successes and the warm welcomes they receive from the people they liberate
from the horrors of Russian occupation, says it all.
Russians besmirch their reputations and call them, “Nazis” because they lose in battle to them. Jealousy runs to propaganda, and too many “useful idiots”buy into the whole scenario. DUH.
Even at the level of their cartoons, Russians are inculturated from childhood The Nazis were/are the bad guys. By transferring that hatred to the Azov Battalion or the Georgian Legion, they create a default enemy image guaranteed to activate the will to be thrown into the meat-grinder of battle and to endure poor Russian tactics, logistics, weaponry, food, command loyalty, et al. Oh well. Russians kill their wounded or leave them to die or send wounded men back.into battle or shoot them themselves if they try to retreat— no, the same as at Stalingrad.
Slava Ukraini!