Posted on 04/09/2022 1:48:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — There is a body in the basement of the abandoned yellow home at the end of the street, near the railroad tracks. The man is young, pale, a dried trickle of blood by his mouth, shot to death, and no one knows why the Russians brought him there, to a home that wasn’t his.
There is a pile of toys near the stairs to the basement. Plastic clothespins sway on an empty line under a cold, gray sky. They are all that’s left of normal on this blackened end of the street in Bucha, where tank treads lay stripped from charred vehicles, civilian cars are crushed, and ammunition boxes are stacked beside empty Russian military rations and liquor bottles.
The man in the basement is almost an afterthought, one more body in a town where death is abundant, but satisfactory explanations for it are not.
A resident, Mykola Babak, points out the man after pondering the scene in a small courtyard nearby. Three men lay there. One is missing an eye. On an old carpet near one body, someone has placed a handful of yellow flowers.
A dog paces by a wheelbarrow around the corner, agitated. The wheelbarrow holds the body of another dog. It has been shot, too.
Babak stands, a cigarette in one hand, a plastic bag of cat food in the other.
“I’m very calm today,” he says. “I shaved for the first time.”
At the beginning of their monthlong occupation of Bucha, he said, the Russians kept pretty much to themselves, focused on forward progress. When that stalled, they went house to house looking for young men, sometimes taking documents and phones. Ukrainian resistance seemed to be wearing on them. The Russians seemed angrier, more impulsive. Sometimes they seemed drunk.
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Thanks Zhang Fei.
You are missing a simple fact. Wars are fought between MILITARY of warring countries. When civilians get involved making Molotov cocktails and brandishing firearms to kill the enemy soldiers (as was shown on TV videos repeatedly), then those soldiers have every right to kill those civilians before getting killed.
On another point with our national debt much higher than our GDP, we are essentially a bankrupt country. We have no business sending arms to ANY FOREIGN country by borrowing more debt. Broke people should not act macho and act as world police. We should not be pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia. We are broke and need to clean house first.
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