The Russian people will bear the shame of Russia’s aggression and war crimes for a thousand years
On Tuesday, October 12, 2022, President Joe Biden in a interview with Jake Tapper on CNN said he’d be open to meeting with Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G-20 summit in Bali Indonesia, if it were to discuss the Whitney Griner case.1
I don’t see how Biden or any democratic leader can sit down and talk to, much less shake hands with, a ruthless war criminal with blood dripping from his hands, who has killed 20 innocent civilians that very day. And more than 20 innocent Ukrainian soldiers, who are only defending their country against illegal aggression and barbaric war crimes by Russian soldiers.
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The Russian people will bear the shame of Russia’s aggression and war crimes for a thousand years
Adapted from The Trenchant Observer, October 10, 2022.
In the beginning, it was easy to think that the crime of aggression against Ukraine and the war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by Russian soldiers were not the responsibility of the Russian people.
Nearly eight months later it is no longer possible to hold that view.
Particularly since the Partial Mobilization on September 21, it is no longer possible to believe the Russian people have been unaware of the war crimes Russian armed forces have been committing.
One thinks back. They must have also been aware of the war crimes committed in Chechnya, and the war crimes committed in Syria. One recalls the massacre of the Polish officers in the Katyn forest in 1940.
The new commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine is famous as the general who leveled Aleppo. His nickname is Armageddon.
The Russians knew.
They have always known. And either approved or looked the other way.