Marco Rubio just now on twitter:
#Russian military leaders should think very carefully before following the orders they recently received
#Putin is 2 years shy of the life expectancy of a Russian male and you will spend the rest of your lives evading an international tribunal for committing his crimes
10:32 PM · Feb 26, 2022·Twitter for iPad
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I gotta think he is talking about thermobaric weapons against Kharkiv, probably Kyiv too.
I think Putin really thought that the Ukrainian troops assigned to Kharkiv would just immediately collapse because of the huge force he had assembled at Belgorod and brought against them, and that then Kharkiv would welcome him as a liberator.
Then once Kharkiv opens its arms to Putin, he probably thought all the Eastern Ukrainian cities (which Yanukyvich won in elections) would then follow suit.
Is Yanukyvich still alive in his Russian exile? Maybe he is the one who filled Putin’s head with this long-obsolete nonsense.
With this horrible attack on a people with whom many Russians (including Russians in the army) have personal family and other ties, there must be a river of intel coming in to Ukraine, Poland, the UK, the US and other sources about what orders have been given and what is going on within the Russian forces.
Marco needs to STFU, this crap isn’t helping.
or perhaps they have been ordered to carry out a massive false flag attack against civilians by “Ukrainian” forces in order to shore up public opinion within Russia about the war