What they are saying is that Russia plans to perform genocide. The Russians are openly talking about mass killings, Stalinist terror and concentration camps.
After a month of fighting, the architects of Moscow’s war against Ukraine had to explain to Russians why Kyiv had not fallen. That’s when the most menacing rhetoric began.
On state television, a military analyst doubled down on Russia’s need to win and called for concentration camps for Ukrainians opposed to the invasion.
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Russia’s astonishing shift toward genocidal speech has been swift and seamless. Moscow officials stepped up warnings that Russia was fighting for its survival. Pundits condemned peace talks and scorned troops’ withdrawal from Kyiv and surrounding areas.
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Eugene Finkel, an expert on genocide at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy, said the rhetoric isn’t just “a few crazy hard-liners” spouting off. It’s coming from prominent government officials, showing up in the press, being heard on state television — and is “clearly genocidal.”
“They’re talking about destroying Ukrainians as a group, Ukraine as a state and as an identity community,” Finkel said. “The argument is we are going to destroy this national community as it exists and create something new that we like instead, no matter how many people we kill in the process.”
The Russians are saying that they will continue to shell and destroy residential areas as a form of collective punishment for resisting and for being Ukrainian. They are blaming civilian casualties on Ukrainians' resistance to Russian invaders.
Do you know who else engaged in similar rationalizations for slaughtering civilians? The Nazis.
It seems the reason the Dutch gave up yesterday was that the Germans bombed the hell out of Rotterdam, and threatened to do the same to Utrecht and Amsterdam. Hitler’s technique of helping his armies by threatening terror or meting it out is as masterful as it is diabolical.
His High Command, for instance, tonight threatened to bomb Brussels unless all troop movements, which the Germans claim their reconnaissance planes have observed there, cease immediately. “If the Belgian government,” says the communiqué, “wishes to save Brussels from the horrors of war, it must immediately put a stop to troop movements in the city and the work on fortifications.”
A nice war.
--William Shirer, Berlin Diary, entry for May 15, 1940
If you are supporting the Russians, if you are buying Putin's propaganda, then you are supporting the Nazis in this war. That includes Marie Le Putin and a minority of Ameicans, including TuckyoRose.
We have a habit of forcing rabid dog countries into a corner from which they have no choice but to lash out from and fight.
ReplyDeleteWestern bankers create and enable these mad men to gain their power , then wonder why they lash out when economically strangled.
In the old pre nuclear world of old school military industrial complex , this was just good business practice.
Times have changed in this high tech world of instant death, bio labs and high speed connectivity.
Wipe out the grid , and you wipe out the country...
Corner a mad man and he will lash out
The corner that Putin finds himself in is of his own making.
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