War is hell, in other words all the atrocities that go with it come along for the ride. Zelensky is extremely ignorant and had (and has) no idea about war, now he does! He was to flippant about what that means, so he went all in to the detriment of his own people, country, and the world.
Kidnapping and raping children? I see extreme propaganda from both sides claiming the same things. Who is being truthful? probably neither, probably both. Logically dissect the message though, Occam’s Razor usually sort this shit out pretty quick.
Your at war, why would you kidnap children? Could it be their families were slaughtered by Ukrainians and Russians fighting? and kids were abandoned or left there as the real victims? So Russia or Ukraine took them to give them care/aid? Probably more realistic no?
Why would you Rape children, not only are they kidnapping, they are straight having sex with little kids in a war zone? really? You need to prove that more than govt manipulated media, claims, and deep fakes. I’ve seen a lot of shit, but not that.
Each side will make out like the other is straight from hell, eating babies, raping babies, when in reality, all each side is doing are the initial stages of dehumanizing each other to expand the ruthless killing and have the situation devolve into what has been propagandized. Of course the innocent civilians and people always suffer.
Yeah it is really funny Americans do not understand the benefits. Belene project costed us bilions that were scammed from Russia and we received some bad nuclear reactors which we will donate to Ukraine. Now the project is too good to pass for our economy and is probably build by an American company in the near future.
As mentioned last year we filled up natural gas reserves with an American NLG shipped to Greece. Just now we are contracted to use nuclear fuel from an American company instead of Russian. There are projects with Romania for oil rigs in the Black Sea that may be done by an American company. We are contracted to buy old American F16s.
The benefits for US are great from this war even from a small country like ours.
I cant believe either people are buying pro Kremlin propaganda written in Bulgaria. I mean it is too obvious. Me and a few friends have a facebook group and a task to comment under the facebook pages of main news outlets in my country to trigger Russian bots. It is lots of fun. We call it the hybrid war and we are trying to fight the propaganda machine. For example a friend of mine discovered that Telus International headquarters in Bulgaria were sponsored by a Russian oligarh to moderate facebook for Bulgaria and protect Russian propaganda. We reported that to an independent small media outlet who later with a citizen organization made a major conflict including Ddossing employees and protests infront the headquarter. The end result is Tellus is no longer moderating facebook for Bulgaria.
An investigation by:
" Among the officials are Ukrainian prosecutor general Andriy Kostin, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, US Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite and EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, Eurojust said.
The EU said that the center had the “ultimate aim of prosecuting those responsible for the invasion” of Ukraine.
“We will leave no stone unturned to hold Putin and his henchmen accountable,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen vowed on Monday"
One of the deranged reasons for the Russian invasion - especially among religious nationalists - were plummeting birth rates of ethnic Russians, as the state is becoming more Caucasian (not white, but populated with darker skinned people from the Caucasus) and Central Asian. And these peoples are Muslim.
So after the initial plan of 40 million Ukrainians tipping the racial/religious odds back in ethnic Russian favor. As the idea that Ukrainians are a “dumb yet misguided version of Russians” spectacularly failed, they switched to Ukrainian children which according to them can still be saved from the “Ukrainian disease” and turned into full fledged Russians.
Maria Lvova-Belova, a former teacher/frustrated housewife turned unapologetic religious fascist drives this program operationally in her role as head of Russia’s Child Protection Services. She’s got 20+ children (most of them adopted) and regularly gives “tips” on State TV to adoptive families about “curing” their adopted children from the “disease”. Unsurprisingly, the “tips” mostly revolve around regular beatings to cure the “Ukrainaness”.
She also advises to start beatings as early as possible as her 15 year old “adopted son” from Ukraine, as she dissapointingly says, apparently still remembers his name.
One of my colleagues managed to ransom her younger brother from Russia, he was separated from his mother in a Russian filtration camp where she disappeared and the “adoptive” parents in the Russian Far East he was assigned to after the camp were actually decent people who let him get in contact with his family. And after a large amount of bribes he was extricated from Russia and reunited with what remains of his family.
For many other children whose “adoptive parents” follow Maria’s “reeducation tips” the fate is grim.