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War Crimes Watch: A Devastating Walk Through the Horrors of Bucha, Ukraine
National Public Radio ^ | April 9, 2022 | Cara Anna

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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; chechens; chechnya; cuibono; putin; putinistas; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; ukronazisbono; zottherussiantrolls
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To: ought-six

[So, perhaps he didn’t go farther than BUD/S. Some guys complete BUD/S but for one reason or another go no further in the SEAL program; that could be because of injury, disability, change of heart, or failure to complete the next stage (SQT). But anyone who completed BUD/S deserves a hell of a lot of credit.]


I’m sure he’s an excellent soldier. The question is whether his personal qualities match his skill at soldiery. Making excuses for a tyrannical conqueror like Putin has widened the distance between him and someone like our Cincinnatus, George Washington, to a chasm:

https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/html/gwresignation.html
At the end of the Revolutionary War, many people in America and Europe thought Washington would retain the reins of power to become the leader of the new nation, or even king. When told by the American artist Benjamin West that Washington was going to resign, King George III of England said “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

Maybe in a different age, Matt could have been Alexander, a man who butchered his way to eternal fame. Maybe that’s what he sees in Putin - a man who is merely doing what he would do himself if he held the reins of power in Russia.


81 posted on 04/09/2022 9:06:53 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Thanks Zhang Fei.

82 posted on 04/10/2022 8:31:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 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.


83 posted on 04/10/2022 9:04:07 AM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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To: Zhang Fei

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.

https://usdebtclock.org


84 posted on 04/10/2022 9:08:53 AM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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