Americans by and large wouldn’t do that but Nazis would with smiles on their faces. The Ukrainian military is dominated by its Nazi elements.
That there are some bad characters in the Ukraine military is an established fact. But “dominated”? And do you seriously think the Russian military are boy scouts. Everywhere they have gone, they have committed heinous atrocities, but suddenly in Ukraine it has got to be the Ukrainians.
You know what I can’t stand about narratives? You draw the conclusion first, then look for facts later, and believe the conclusions you’ve pre-drawn regardless of the actual facts. You just have to have Ukrainian Nazis, and if you can’t find them in Bucha, you schlep them in your mind all the way from Mariupol, where that one battalion’s survivors are making their last stand and good riddance. Find facts first. Draw conclusions based on the facts that you find. Keep in mind the burden of proof.
“Americans by and large wouldn’t do that”
except to American Indians, Vietnamese, Hawaiians...
Americans are not paragons of virtue. Neither are Israelis, Ukrainians, nor anyone. Realizing one’s own capacity for committing evil acts, and a faith in G-d, are the only insurance policy that one has against committing inhuman acts when the chips are down. Russians, however, have a long history of barbarism. So do Ukrainians, for that matter, but they have in past years shown signs of moral growth. This is not Bogdan Chmelnicki’s marauding Kossacks.