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cstanleytech

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30. Russia is clearly planning to use the children as hostages to get the parents to pressure

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Sat Feb 25, 2023, 04:22 PM

Feb 2023

their government to agree to the Russian terms for peace if the want their children back.

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I just listened to a discussion of Russian atrocities on MSNBC and one that was mentioned was the [View all] Atticus Feb 2023 OP

Right? 2naSalit Feb 2023 #1

Yep 3auld6phart Feb 2023 #13

Who learned that from whom? Dirty Socialist Feb 2023 #2

Birds of a feather wnylib Feb 2023 #22

It's an atrocity as old as humanity itself, crossing all cultures sooner or later. Just because it's Hekate Feb 2023 #31

That historical context makes it easier to see what Trump was doing. yardwork Feb 2023 #36

heard timothy snyder the other day- mopinko Feb 2023 #3

he thinks democracy doesn't work because the guy he installed to destroy our democracy LymphocyteLover Feb 2023 #4

well, you have to admit, he found all the chinks. mopinko Feb 2023 #7

There's always "chinks". paleotn Feb 2023 #20

But Putin doesn't understand democracy. yardwork Feb 2023 #35

+1, part of the makeup of democracy is the people who are chosen as heads *WANT* democracy uponit7771 Feb 2023 #19

Yes, to Putin, that makes sense. Per Snyder. yardwork Feb 2023 #34

Not sure what you're implying here about monsters... who else are you thinking of? LymphocyteLover Feb 2023 #5

Maybe the similarities between putin and trump? SouthernDem4ever Feb 2023 #8

Trump. Bluethroughu Feb 2023 #9

He learned about putting kids in cages from Epstein Farmer-Rick Feb 2023 #11

+1, been saying the "P" tape is a tape of MAGA pedophiles. GQP allegiance to TFG isn't that organic uponit7771 Feb 2023 #21

OK, thanks. Yeah, he's done so many awful things I forgot about that LymphocyteLover Feb 2023 #32

The list is endless. It's easy to not remember everything. Bluethroughu Feb 2023 #41

Indeed! I call him the orange anus... among many other things LymphocyteLover Feb 2023 #42

They've been doing this for a long time... BigmanPigman Feb 2023 #6

same; maybe even earlier Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #25

I would go with earlier. BigmanPigman Feb 2023 #28

Media was talking about this a few months after invasion. Can't tell you which outlet though. Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #29

There is a long history to this Beastly Boy Feb 2023 #10

yep. thanks for pointing out that there's more stopdiggin Feb 2023 #26

Isn't Stephan Miller............ 90-percent Feb 2023 #12

Not Stephen Miller the former speech writer for Chump FakeNoose Feb 2023 #40

it was a crime against humanity barbtries Feb 2023 #14

Yes, any regime that kidnaps children is criminal. Boomerproud Feb 2023 #15

Aren't kidnapped kids working in slaughterhouses and factories right in in the ole USA? LakeArenal Feb 2023 #37

A rather barbaric way of fixing Russia's demographic spiral. paleotn Feb 2023 #16

From absolutist Czars to dictatorial Soviets to the dictatorship of oligarchs. wnylib Feb 2023 #23

They clearly can't even hear themselves. onecaliberal Feb 2023 #17

Documented war crimes are just one black eye for Russia. rubbersole Feb 2023 #18

I guess those weren't the children raped and tortured whathehell Feb 2023 #24

Right and Russia does have all the monsters republianmushroom Feb 2023 #27

Russia is clearly planning to use the children as hostages to get the parents to pressure cstanleytech Feb 2023 #30

If any region of the RuZZian Federation wants out of the sanctions, secede from it. roamer65 Feb 2023 #33

Putin and company blue-wave Feb 2023 #38

Indoctrination too PostTruth Feb 2023 #39