Putin's Minions Demand Grotesque 'Rewards' for Mass Killers in Ukraine

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The Kremlin’s henchmen are now pushing for pay raises and debt forgiveness for those perpetuating bloodshed in Ukraine

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Putin’s Minions Demand Grotesque ‘Rewards’ for Mass Killers in Ukraine
After a massacre in a Ukrainian city shocked the world, the Kremlin’s henchmen are now pushing for pay raises and debt forgiveness for those perpetuating the country’s bloodshed.
1:20 PM · Apr 4, 2022

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While most of the world gasped at the latest round of atrocities perpetrated by invading Russian troops in Ukraine, Kremlin propagandists and government officials are only doubling down. The shocking footage of the massacre that took place in the Ukrainian city of Bucha was repeatedly broadcast on Russian state television this week with the label “Fake” slapped across the screen.

During Monday’s broadcast of state TV show 60 Minutes, host Olga Skabeeva speculated that the town was chosen for an elaborate fabrication because of its name. “Biden said that Putin is a butcher. Bucha sounds like “butcher.” How could they not take advantage of such a town?” She later added: “President Putin described them all as “the Empire of lies,” and here is our confirmation.”

The so-called “lies” Skabeeva is referring to are the scenes of indescribable horror that were discovered by Ukrainian troops who arrived in Bucha this weekend after the Russian Army withdrew from the city. Scores of bodies, including those of women and children, were littered on roads and in yards, many of them found with their hands bound behind their backs and signs of rape or torture.

Russian state media churned out ridiculous assertions, claiming in part that the corpses of women and children depicted in the footage from Bucha—some of which were charred beyond recognition—were “moving their arms,” “getting their limbs out of the way to avoid the wheels of military vehicles” or even “getting up and walking away.”

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[COL Mustard]

1. I'm getting almost to the point where I say

"Russia, Go Fuck Yourself". Not just your warships, not just your army of barbarians but your whole uncivilized uncultured country. Go fuck all yourselves. And I say that having met some Russians in the early aftermath of the USSR...we drank, we talked, we enjoyed company that night. No more.

[underpants]

3. All those years

We children of the Cold War were convinced that the Russians/Soviets were 10 foot baby eating monsters....turns out they drink a lot, eat a lot of sausage, and root for the team in red, so basically it’s Wisconsin.

[COL Mustard]

5. I'll never think of them as civilzed people again.

I knew some of the old Soviet elites in the early 90s, who had all of the privileges of living in Leningrad (it hadn't changed yet). They were nice people but I would not be able to be in the room with them now. The only way I could is if they told me and showed me that they were opposed to Putin and his band of war criminals. I'll never think of the country that gave us Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and Pushkin the same way again.

[icymist]

2. It's starting to look like Bucha isn't the only town where inhuman atrocities are taking place.

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I’ve just had a talk with my colleague from Sumy (Daryna, she recently escaped successfully). Her father is in Sumy. She confirms the atrocities there. russians are especially cruel to Ukrainian women. There’re many towns like Bucha

[marie999]

4. I'm going to post this every time I write about Ukraine.

Send in NATO troops now. If it starts WWIII then Putin was going to start it anyway and soon. Maybe it will get one of Putin's people to kill him.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I was at that point 2 weeks ago.

[rgbecker]

7. 4 weeks ago for me. If the Western nuclear powers aren't going to go to bat

for sovereign countries when invaded out of the blue there is no MAD, there is no possible end to war as we know it. Every country not looking for its own nuclear arsenal and unable to secure a mutual defense treaty with a nuclear power that will defend them will be a target of these ruthless tyrants. The entire world order is now a house of cards.

[marie999]

8. So far I have been totally wrong.

First, I thought that Putin would have waited longer to invade Ukraine. Second, I thought that the sanctions would have worked by now. Third, I thought that Russian troops would have stayed in the East. Fourth, I thought that NATO, including the US, would have done more in the way of armament. Now I doubt that NATO will do enough. The barbarity has reached the point that the only way Ukraine will survive is if NATO stops worrying about a Third World War and wipes out the Russian troops in Ukraine plus at the same time destroys Russian military bases near the border. Once that has been accomplished, I am not sure that NATO should send troops into Russia, but sanctions should remain until Russia has a new president preferably by them killing Putin.

[BigmanPigman]

9. "Putin will not use a nuclear bomb,

he is saber rattling", a couple of times I have heard this from retired US military officials and I was glad since it meant my thinking was on the right track. I have been hearing it more and more. They know their stuff. NATO needs to go in and should already have done this. The horrors we have seen so far is the tip of the iceberg. Sanctions will take too long. The Russian civilians are not feeling the sanctions and they mostly support Putin and are not trying to overthrow him. We can't wait any longer to act.

[Calculating]

13. This

At this point things will only get worse the longer this mess is allowed to go on. Russia needs to get their forces the hell out of Ukraine, and if not it should be open season on any Russian forces still there. Leave them alone in Russia, but this crap needs to end.

[marie999]

10. I just sent an email to President Biden explaining how I feel.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Bravo!

[dalton99a]

11. Mass executions were part of Putin's invasion plan

https://www.businessinsider.com/head-of-mi6-ukraine-executions-part-of-putins-invasion-plan-2022-4

Head of MI6 says mass executions in Bucha, Ukraine, were part of Putin's invasion plan
Catherine Neilan

The head of UK secret intelligence said on Sunday that Vladimir Putin planned the "summary executions" being uncovered in parts of Ukraine that were occupied by Russian forces.

Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said in a tweet that "we knew" organized mass killing formed part of "Putin's invasion plans."

The comments appear to tie Putin directly to the atrocities that Ukraine has alleged in the cities of Bucha and elsewhere.

Ukraine and international observers have accused Russia of genocide and war crimes in Bucha, which is about 20 miles northwest of Kyiv.