Putin is going to get away with all this, as he always has. How long before Ukraine falls off the front pages?
Lather, rinse, repeat.

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This is a reference to the children victims in Donbas killed over eight years of conflict, see “The Alley of Angels”. That children died in this conflict is a fact, but it is also a fact that Russia pumped weapons and resources into the separatist movement so a look in the mirror might be warranted.

EVERY SINGLE ONE of those Donbas children would be alive and unscathed by war if Russia had minded their own business, respected Ukraine's sovereignty, democracy, and territorial integrity, and not sent thousands of mercenaries and provocateurs to create a fake separatist movement in Donbas. Their deaths is also on Russia's hands.

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Russian propagandist figured out that claiming you're protecting "the children" is a very powerful trigger.

And now it is the battle cry of the GOP - the anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ laws, anti-abortion laws, all the talk of "groomers," the insinuations that Biden is a pedophile.

How soon before they accuse Zelensky of the same thing?

Uhhh WHAT?

You lost me with that possibly drug-fueled leaps-and-bounds "logic" going from a missile fired by barbarous Russians labeled "for the children" which ACTUALLY killed children to all of the batshit insane QAnon pedo garbage...

Sorry but that "logic" made absolutely no sense to me. That being because I'm sane and a critical thinker.

This is just horrible and completely planned

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Russian propagandist figured out that claiming you're protecting "the children" is a very powerful trigger.

And now it is the battle cry of the GOP - the anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ laws, anti-abortion laws, all the talk of "groomers," the insinuations that Biden is a pedophile.

How soon before they accuse Zelensky of the same thing?

This is what Mariupol looked like, which, according to the Russians, was captured by the Nazis. The level of cynicism of Russian propaganda could be envied even by Goebbels

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This is a reference to the children victims in Donbas killed over eight years of conflict, see “The Alley of Angels”. That children died in this conflict is a fact, but it is also a fact that Russia pumped weapons and resources into the separatist movement so a look in the mirror might be warranted.

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They have lost their souls in fighting this illegal war with such depravity ..,

On mainstream Russian media, hosts are simultaneously saying Ukraine should be exterminated while denying Russians exterminated Ukrainian civilians in Bucha. Sorry, can't have it both ways.

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There is evidence surfacing that Russian troops did this in several other cities as well.

And bizarre/clueless that they want to suggest "it was Azov" when Azov was all the way across the country, pinned down fighting in Mariupol. As if they have magical teleportation ability and all the time in the world to go around the country murdering their own parents, kids, cousins, etc...

Anonymous wrote:Lord have mercy

Cue the poster asking "what if the Azov battalion did this?" with a link to a 5 year-old article.

Lord have mercy

Raphael Lemkin originally coined the term 'genocide' in 1944, and specifically chose genos with the intent of it comprising all of race, people, or nation.

Per the UN, What Russia is doing can correctly be called genocide. The United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such." These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.

Russia is targeting these atrocities against Ukrainian civilians for no other reason than because they are Ukrainians, a national group.