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Crunchy Frog

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April 9, 2022

121,000 children forcibly removed to Russia.

Child separation policies orders of magnitude worse than Trump's policies at the Mexican border.

https://twitter.com/MaxRTucker/status/1512529009661419530?s=20&t=d_gW1xrD4NQeMhhCfFZr0Q

April 7, 2022

Ukraine Says Photos Show Russia Dug Trenches in Chernobyl's Radioactive Soil

https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-exclusive-ukraine-says-photos-show-russia-dug-trenches-in-chernobyl-s-radioactive-soil/6518700.html

WASHINGTON — 

A Ukrainian official has provided VOA with exclusive photos of the aftermath of Russia’s five-week occupation of Ukraine’s decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, showing what he says are Russian trenches dug into radioactive soil near a 1986 nuclear accident at the site.




There have been reports of Russian soldiers being treated in Belarus for radiation sickness.



April 6, 2022

I saw so many parents of young children

on the Herman Cain Awards Reddit, it was staggering.

A lot of this comes from anti vaxxers.

Of course nothing can be done to help them because nothing can get through the Senate.

The ones I saw on Reddit always went for GoFundMe.

April 4, 2022

Pictures including 3 year old with signs of rape.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/twanhp/first_foto_bucha_russians_burned_the_bodies/

Edit: Don't click if you don't want to see the pictures.

I believe it's important that this information be as widely disseminated as possible.
April 4, 2022

Yeah that's bullshit.

Loads of younger Russians have VPNs and talk freely and openly about their bloodlust on Telegram and Instagram.

And how does that explain this behavior by Russians in Germany?

https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1510700797822181377?s=20&t=b5PqaeWW1-8wodewTzVapw

April 4, 2022

Flame me if you like, but I think one of the unusual aspects of this war

is how clear cut it is in terms of good guys and bad guys.

Most other wars in recent history have been civil wars in which both sides were somewhat unsavory or unsympathetic. Same with wars between poor, developing countries. Who were the good guys in the Iran/Iraq war?

Even in the wars where we were the bad guys (Vietnam, Iraq) our opponents were not particularly sympathetic.

This is a war where a large and powerful country with a brutal, autocratic leadership has attacked, unprovoked, a much smaller and weaker, mostly peaceful and mostly democratic country.

The object of the attack is simply to conquer the country and eliminate it as a distinct nation. In order to achieve this objective, the attacker is perpetrating atrocities against the civilian population intended solely to break it and totally subjugate it.

I don't think it's a color or race thing either. If China does the same thing with Taiwan, I believe that our reactions will be very similar, and for similar reasons.

Other wars have as much, or even more, atrocity and suffering, but few of them involve such a clear cut, one sided aggression.

Anyway, that's my opinion. Flame away.

April 3, 2022

The police in this country are morphing into a private RW militia

That has the legal authority to assault, imprison, and murder you.

These will be the shock troops of the future Putinist dictatorship.

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