The location was also across a relatively narrow street from a church, which was damaged. I was a U.S. Army gunner on an 81mm mortar. I don’t know the size of the Russian mortar rounds, but mortars are designed as anti-personnel weapons to use against advancing or dug-in enemy troops. A fleeing mom and her kids are not enemy troops. Putin is a thug. His army is made up of thugs. Eventually, NATO will find itself in ground combat with them. Let’s do it now before they murder more moms and kids.
I saw their bodies, four columns wide on the NYT front. In the old days, we would have done what the WSJ did, run the shot with the bodies covered. But by giving us this photo of her alive Lucian, you’ve restored this young woman to me, given me her face, which in Linsey Addonario’s photo is hidden by her fur hood. But her kids—their faces were plain, with blood trickling down their chests, hugging their suitcases inadvertently. These are our last moments when dictators see us as stick figures in their dreams of restoring medieval empires. This is how patriarchal power asserts itself: by congratulating itself for mortaring children.
I hope there will not be sharp=shooters picking off civilians like in Sarajevo which went on for over 2 years...women and children trying to buy food....let's hope this doesn't draw out into a siege and force cities to surrender or starve. Let's hope some brave Russian will be a sniper for the head of the snake.
Refusal of NATO to step up and bomb the Russian Army out of fear of nuclear retaliation grants Russia the freedom to kill thousands and perhaps tens of thousands, of civilians. When will the world say 'Enough?' Right now Putin can decide to kill millions while he rattles nuclear sabers. All of this is truly frightening, but isn't this what Putin wants? In the end you either stop the killing or become a accessory to genocide.
This is just so evil. I feel helpless doing nothing other than praying. I am donating to Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen and hope others will also. I cannot believe this man is getting away with this.
Sadly, we're going to be seeing much more of this. Putin wants nothing more than to sow fear & terror in the minds of every Ukrainian still in the country. And he's also sowing fear & terror in the minds of the people in every former Soviet state. When does this end? How much more of this horror will the civilized world put up with? Did we not learn anything from World War II? Will NATO take a stand when Putin decides to take back Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia? I don't even want to contemplate the answer to those questions.
When I was 12, 13, and 14 years old, a 60 year old Latvian woman was central to my well being. Highly educated — a doctor — in Latvia, she, her husband, and their two toddler children were residents of displaced persons camps in Europe from 1945 through 1950 when they were granted US emigration status. Fast forward to 1960 when my mother met her, her husband had died and she was cleaning houses and sometimes taking care of the children living in the houses she cleaned in order to support herself and her two children. Her everlasting wish then was that Latvia would be free from Russian control. When the USSR fell, my best feelings about it derived from knowing that Latvia was once again free.
I have cried so many times today. It began this morning when I saw the front of the paper. It continued all day as I watched Lynsey Addonario's interviews. I'm crying again. And I shouldn't be. My children and grandchildren are alive and safe. The resolve of Ukrainians is amazing, but how much can they take?
The time will come for Putin. Here is a "Gift" link to a WAPO op-ed piece today (i.e., you don't have to be a subscriber to read this; I am, and am entitled to share some articles with others each month): https://wapo.st/3tFvaAI -- Opinion: Why Putin needs to watch his back --
It is agonizing to be just standing by…
Fury.
The location was also across a relatively narrow street from a church, which was damaged. I was a U.S. Army gunner on an 81mm mortar. I don’t know the size of the Russian mortar rounds, but mortars are designed as anti-personnel weapons to use against advancing or dug-in enemy troops. A fleeing mom and her kids are not enemy troops. Putin is a thug. His army is made up of thugs. Eventually, NATO will find itself in ground combat with them. Let’s do it now before they murder more moms and kids.
Never forget Trump's pals in Moscow and Pyonyang.
All are monsters.
And all deserve death by hanging, just like the Nazis after the Nuremburg trials.
The coward Goering got a suicide pill.
I remember reading about that— he cheated the hangman, but he died, and that’s the important thing.
Spot on.
I saw their bodies, four columns wide on the NYT front. In the old days, we would have done what the WSJ did, run the shot with the bodies covered. But by giving us this photo of her alive Lucian, you’ve restored this young woman to me, given me her face, which in Linsey Addonario’s photo is hidden by her fur hood. But her kids—their faces were plain, with blood trickling down their chests, hugging their suitcases inadvertently. These are our last moments when dictators see us as stick figures in their dreams of restoring medieval empires. This is how patriarchal power asserts itself: by congratulating itself for mortaring children.
I hope there will not be sharp=shooters picking off civilians like in Sarajevo which went on for over 2 years...women and children trying to buy food....let's hope this doesn't draw out into a siege and force cities to surrender or starve. Let's hope some brave Russian will be a sniper for the head of the snake.
Refusal of NATO to step up and bomb the Russian Army out of fear of nuclear retaliation grants Russia the freedom to kill thousands and perhaps tens of thousands, of civilians. When will the world say 'Enough?' Right now Putin can decide to kill millions while he rattles nuclear sabers. All of this is truly frightening, but isn't this what Putin wants? In the end you either stop the killing or become a accessory to genocide.
Brutal and malicious thuggery.
This is the hardest thing I’ve read since this all started.
Hoping that soon Putin will be officially charged with crimes against humanity! How many crimes against humanity will it take to lock him up?
That will never happen.
The so called war on Terror began September 11, 2001. Seems to me What Putin is doing in Ukraine is his decision to persuade us he is a terrorist.
This is just so evil. I feel helpless doing nothing other than praying. I am donating to Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen and hope others will also. I cannot believe this man is getting away with this.
I donated to his organization also.
It is so maddening to watch this carnage and know there is nothing anyone can do but half measures to stop that madman in Moscow.
Murderous bastard.
Sadly, we're going to be seeing much more of this. Putin wants nothing more than to sow fear & terror in the minds of every Ukrainian still in the country. And he's also sowing fear & terror in the minds of the people in every former Soviet state. When does this end? How much more of this horror will the civilized world put up with? Did we not learn anything from World War II? Will NATO take a stand when Putin decides to take back Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia? I don't even want to contemplate the answer to those questions.
When I was 12, 13, and 14 years old, a 60 year old Latvian woman was central to my well being. Highly educated — a doctor — in Latvia, she, her husband, and their two toddler children were residents of displaced persons camps in Europe from 1945 through 1950 when they were granted US emigration status. Fast forward to 1960 when my mother met her, her husband had died and she was cleaning houses and sometimes taking care of the children living in the houses she cleaned in order to support herself and her two children. Her everlasting wish then was that Latvia would be free from Russian control. When the USSR fell, my best feelings about it derived from knowing that Latvia was once again free.
Chilling story, Bridget.
I'm ready to go in coach. Just give me a chance. This unprovoked shit ...
I have cried so many times today. It began this morning when I saw the front of the paper. It continued all day as I watched Lynsey Addonario's interviews. I'm crying again. And I shouldn't be. My children and grandchildren are alive and safe. The resolve of Ukrainians is amazing, but how much can they take?
Would we die for freedom?
The time will come for Putin. Here is a "Gift" link to a WAPO op-ed piece today (i.e., you don't have to be a subscriber to read this; I am, and am entitled to share some articles with others each month): https://wapo.st/3tFvaAI -- Opinion: Why Putin needs to watch his back --
Great piece...at 74, I hope to read Putin's obituary.