2022 Made It Obvious that Russia is a Nation Run by War Criminals and Lunatics

Abducting tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of children, an act of barbarity larger in scale that what the Agentinians did to their own people. Torturing people, including children. Legalized looting. Summary executions. These are ways that the Russians are treating people they say are their brothers.

Russia, in its actions, is not terribly different from Nazi Germany. That is not a point worthy of debate. It is factual.

Russia, for weeks, has been engaged in aerial terrorism, hitting non-military targets, in an attempt to break the will of the Ukranian people. It has failed, but the Russians keep doubling down on failure.

Strategic bombing to break the will of the opposing population is a military theory that has been around for over a century. The basic problem with the theory has been that in practice, it does not work. The only country that, in a general war, threw in the towel because they were being bombed was Japan, and that was after two atomic bombings. The massive fireraids by General LeMay's B-29s, an action that LeMay himself recognized as a war crime, didn't break the Japanese. Putler should well know this; his family comes from Leningrad. German bombing, shelling, and besieging the city did not break the people of Leningrad (something that they take pride in to this day).

The Russians are crossing the line between criminality and madness. If anything, they are going to make it even harder for their fellow travelers in the GOP to align with them. Oh, they'll try, they'll pretend to care for the people of Ukraine and say that appeasing the Russians will end the suffering of the Ukrainian people. They'll blame Ukraine for not recognizing reality in their goal of expelling the Russian invaders. But it would be a sellout on a historic level, everyone will know that.

The Ukrainians are not asking for us to fight their war for them, They are only asking for our support. Only craven fellow-travelers of Putin will not see the justice of helping the Ukrainians fight for their own freedom.

Edited to add:

In an address on his Telegram channel, Mr Zelensky said those who carried out Saturday's attacks were inhuman and they would "lose".

Switching from Ukrainian to Russian, he then attacked Mr Putin.

"Your leader wants to show you that he's leading from the front, and his military is behind him," he said.

"But in fact he is hiding. He's hiding behind his military, his missiles, the walls of his residences and palaces.

"He's hiding behind you, and he's burning your country and your future. No-one will forgive you for terror. No-one in the world will forgive you for that. Ukraine will not forgive."