Is Germany Sending Ukrainian Men Back to the Front?

In this video, released exclusively in German on our channel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses the growing tensions between Russia, Ukraine and Europe, as well as the changing political climate in the West. At the center are Europe’s stance toward Russia, the debates surrounding the return of Ukrainian men and why Europe increasingly appears to be preparing for a long-term conflict.

This video was produced by System Update and published on the Glenn Greenwald YouTube channel on the 16th of May, 2026.

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.