U.S.-born actor Steven Seagal is making no secret of which side he’s on in the Russia-Ukraine War as he promotes the teaching of hand-to-hand combat for new military recruits in Moscow.

Seagal told Russian government news agency Tass, “It is important that the development of Aikido proceed at a faster pace” among recruits in the Russian Armed Forces, which have been facing monumental troop losses as the war with Ukraine drags into its second year.

Claiming Siberian roots, Seagal says he’s now ‘1 million percent Russian,’ although he was born in Michigan.

[The headline is a satirical nod to the way Seagal’s film titles were routinely structured. To quote from a much better film than Seagal ever made, he has chosen … poorly. — Ed]