In Bucha, the scope of Russian barbarity is coming into focus

[Warpy]

5. It was no picnic in Kyiv, sirens would go off at all times, day and night

and the sound of shelling just 10-15 miles away both had to be nerve wracking.

I have faith that Putin is going to realize his worst nightmare, that people around him are going to realize he's a pipsqueak who has completely lost the plot after ripping off the country for over 20 years and who needs to go. Dictatorships are brittle things, and a blunder like the war against Ukraine is a failure that won't be ignored for long.

If the Russians are at all smart, they need to update their constitution, that any president who tries to become president for life needs to be marched out in back of the Kremlin to meet a firing squad. "Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason"--apocryphal but true.