Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
In response to the July 8th attacks on the “Ohmatdyt” Children's Hospital in Kyiv, we take a closer look at other times Russia has violated international humanitarian law by deliberately and indiscriminately targeting hospitals in Ukraine.
A staggering statistic from Physicians for Human Rights shows that Russia has carried out a total of 1442 attacks on health care in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. This has meant that one in 10 hospitals in the country have been directly damaged by Russian attacks.
Lawrence Freedman: Lashing Out - Understanding Russia's attacks on Ukrainian civilians
Natural gas prices in Russia up 34% since Putin’s 2024 invasion.
Since a State-owned company (Gazprom) has a virtual monopoly on the domestic market, that is essentially a tax on the population.
It is a break with the whole Putin era social compact, whereby the Russian people were paid off with rising living standards, in return for their acquiescence to Putin’s undemocratic and corrupt leadership. Now their living standards are being sacrificed in many ways at once.
As Abe Lincoln said, you can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people, all of the time. The Russian people are increasingly the bill payers for Putin’s disastrous warmongering - and they can’t all be fooled about it forever. Putin has sold out their future.
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