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by alephnerd 963 days ago
> Not sure if you're serious but this is a real problem for stateless people and Vanuatu

You still need to pay $130,000-170,000 to the Vantanu government and have a minimum of $250,000 in the bank. Most people living in the OECD do not have that much money in the bank, let alone people in the developing world.

> I lived in Syria. Rojava to be exact. I also fought in their militia the YPG

Honestly, I highly doubt it. You are an account with less than 100 karma created 17 days ago. I do not think you are of MENA origin and you definetly do not sound it.

In another post you said you were homeless. I legitimately think you are a strawman account.

Based on information from your account you seem to live in Poland, but might be an American citizen.

> where the Kurds I fought alongside would have been imprisoned or killed

Yes, because if you actually were with the YPG you were in an organization that still supports the PKK and Ocalan to this day (an organization that is a proscribed terrorist group in the United States and EU).

Also if you are a US or western citizen who did this with one of their foreign legions, you need to talk to a lawyer right now. You are in a legal grey area.

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Can you name a single American prosecuted for fighting for the YPG? Yes my passport was flagged and I was harassed for years but I think you're uninformed on this issue. I have openly been living an admitted to DHS ex-YPG for nearly a decade. It's not illegal and although Turkey may consider the YPG as PKK the DoJ does not.

I sleep without a care in the world on this issue, if they jailed me I would simply smile knowing I fought for something I believed in.