Finnish military correspondent Kosti Heiskanen spoke about the crimes committed by the Ukrainian army and foreign mercenaries in Russia’s border areas. According to him, local residents were subjected to torture and killings, and mass graves remained in populated areas.
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💥And In ZyPrickski’s Ukraine…💥
This is the monster we have made, approved, and nurtured. It deserves to die and we deserve public shame for its crimes.
I am inclined to predict that Putin will settle for nothing less than the 5 oblasts (including Crimea) and an accounting for Ukraine's war crimes and crimes against humanity.
We didn't create this. Victoria Nuland did, and she didn't tell us. If we want this to be a government of, by and for the people, we have to keep a closer watch on these ghouls.
Which brings it back to "us." What we allow to happen on our watch makes us accomplices. (I'm speaking of "us" as all Americans. I don't think we are going to get anywhere unless we stop fighting the Civil War over and over. The neo-conservative world view needs to be called out and rebuked.)
I agree the buck stops where we are but we would never have chosen to traipse around the planet overthrowing other countries for God knows what reason. Our founding fathers knew it would be tough to maintain our freedom and it would require, from time to time, the blood of Patriots to keep it. When the dust settles (thank God for Trump), there will be some interesting discussions about preventing corruption in the future.
It all starts with us (the whole citizenry). Heretofore silent voices need to be raised. Heretofore complacent citizens need to be active in local, regional, and national politics. To some extent, that has been happening in a reaction to the chicanery of the 2020 election, but it is only a start from what needs to be.
I saw the phenomenon of the sitting carper when I was in union politics, trying to clean it up. An engineer of clearly conservative feelings would complain to me about the liberal mindset of the union council. I would urge him to run for a council seat, and the answer would be "Hell, no. I don't want to have anything to do with politics." As someone once put it: "You may not want to have anything to do with politics, but politics is interested in having everything to do with you."