If you want to know how desperate Putin is, have a look at this: As many as 14,000 Ukrainian children have been taken by the Russian army from their families and homes to so-called “filtration” centers in Russia and put up for adoption since the war began. Nikolay Kuleba, the commissioner for children’s rights in the Ukrainian president’s office, told a hearing by the U.S.
Well, for one, the Trump administration. They separated children from their parents at the border and some of the children were then adopted in the US. And let’s not forget the “adoption” pretext that was employed by Donald Jr as an excuse to meet with Russians at Trump Tower.
Stephen Miller, one of TFG’s top ‘Policy Advisers’ came up with that little Master Stroke of Hitlerian genius. Why is it that those of us who were never taken in by that phony loud-mouthed carnival barker/huckster/con man/and serial confabulator from when he first came gliding down the escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy, continued to be surprised by each daily revelation that we (Americans) were being taken to a new low from what had been the case, just the day before….while no matter how vile, despicable, and indefensible the man was, his acolytes and followers by the legion remained in thrall with him? Still a head scratcher for me, I’m afraid.
I recall that Miller’s uncle wrote a public apology (it may have been an ‘Op Ed’ in one of the major newspapers) for his nephew back when he was in the previous administration. As a Jew, his uncle was obviously appalled at Stephen’s extremely cruel policy decisions that were seized on by his boss, TFG. I think he said he had become one of those ‘self-hating Jews’ that were an embarrassment to Judaism at large. Definitely something wrong with the guy.
I vaguely recall some older male relative saying something like "where do you think YOU come from, boychik?" I thought it was his grandfather, but it might have been the same uncle.
yeah, well, uhhh....there's a good reason for that.
Mr. Miller began his "public career" in high school when he made a speech decrying the fact that students were told to pick up gum wrappers, etc. because "there are people paid to do this."
he seems to have been compensating for his early baldness ever since...
Wow. Miller's high school protest comment against having to pick up gum wrappers so clearly conveys "I'm too important to pick up my own trash; surely we pay peons to do that sort of thing!" To me the most fascinating thing about Miller's arrogant elitist self identification with the worst shared attitudes between white nationalists and the ultra-rich is that Miller is Jewish. He's open about it, but espouses all kinds of policies that discriminate against immigrants, outsiders, and others who are at a disadvantage in America. Being Jewish doesn't seem to have given him any compassion for people who are oppressed or downtrodden.
Miller is only Jewish by birth. He is a reincarnated Adolf Eichmann. Even looks like him. Miller wasn’t alone in his kidnapping children as he had approval from the guy who looks like the Keebler cookie guy, who was Fake 45’s original Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. Miller then was allowed to procreate with a woman who is as awful as he is and they had a baby girl. They are trying out their own Aryan race. Disgusting deplorable humans amongst us all!
Since he is Jewish by birth and so is she, and they were married by a rabbi, it would be the height of irony and self-delusion if the thought they were starting an “Aryan race” as Hitler and Eichmann imagined that phrase.
This is absolutely a false equivalence. There is no excuse for what Trump did, but that was not national policy. The reason Putin is doing this has more to do with Russia's falling birth rate below the replacement level. We should ensure that the names of every one of these captured and kidnapped children are kept forefront in governmental communiqués with the Russian regime, demanding that they be returned safely and in good health.
Kidnapping children and trying to abolish their heritage, culture and language is classic genocide. Putin has already said he wants to abolish Ukraine as an entity separate from Russia. Kidnapping these kids is just one part of his plan.
Sickening isn't it? One of Putin's BS "justifications" for attacking Ukraine is to "denazify" it, then he proceeds to repeat one of the worst Nazi atrocities. Evil incarnate.
I can’t begin to imagine what those parents are going through. Putin should be tried separately for each and every kidnapping. I suspect he’ll take the coward’s way out before we see any justice.
I'm reading a great deal of false equivalence between the kidnappings that Vladimir Putin is doing as a way of terrorizing Ukrainians, as well as replacing dead or elderly Russians in the Russian workforce, now or in the future, and the countless examples of children here in America taken away from their families and placed into state-run schools where they would be talk to reject their own people and cultural heritage. The American government did it to the indigenous Native Americans as a matter of national policy, with the avowed publicly-stated purpose of making them more suitable for living and working in a white, Christian country. Their argument would have been something like they were saving the children from death by starvation and disease if they were allowed to remain with their families on the reservations. That's the sort of narrow-minded thinking that well-meaning people engaged in back in those years, and their triumphalist Christianity allowed them to do this with clear conscience. But that's not what we're talking about today with Vladimir Putin, and his blatant disregard of the norms of civilized society at every level. We should see things for what they are, and not seek to find counterexamples from our history that are intended to muddle clear thinking into the kinds of false equivalences that people are wont to do. We don't need to raise counterexamples showing them within our own lifetime, millions of other children were packed into cattle cars and sent to death camps, simply to show that Vladimir Putin is less bad than he might otherwise be. Bad enough is more than enough! Putin's actions constitute a war on children, specifically; and for that, we need for Putin to be punished as severely as our laws allow. That is yet another reason why we in the West need to harden ourselves to the task of defeating Putin, despite everyone's wish that this situation would simply go away on its own. Vladimir Putin is an existential threat to our entire way of life, and we cannot afford to let up on supporting Ukraine by whatever means necessary, military, economic, social, and moral. Ukraine is currently finding our war by proxy, and we owe it to ourselves to support them in their hour of need.
The Nazis did the same in occupied Poland.Polish childres deemed to be Aryan" enough, ie.blond hair and blue eyes, were sent to be raised by German Nazi families.So just wbo are the Nazis?
Putin is a monster. Horrifying really. I am definitely hoping to be around long enough to see him brought up before the Hague. It is brutal to read but necessary to know.
It just boggles my mind how cruel he is. How does someone even think of doing this?
Well, for one, the Trump administration. They separated children from their parents at the border and some of the children were then adopted in the US. And let’s not forget the “adoption” pretext that was employed by Donald Jr as an excuse to meet with Russians at Trump Tower.
Stephen Miller, one of TFG’s top ‘Policy Advisers’ came up with that little Master Stroke of Hitlerian genius. Why is it that those of us who were never taken in by that phony loud-mouthed carnival barker/huckster/con man/and serial confabulator from when he first came gliding down the escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy, continued to be surprised by each daily revelation that we (Americans) were being taken to a new low from what had been the case, just the day before….while no matter how vile, despicable, and indefensible the man was, his acolytes and followers by the legion remained in thrall with him? Still a head scratcher for me, I’m afraid.
Sociopaths are different from us.
Stephen Miller seems to have many qualities in common with sociopaths.
I recall that Miller’s uncle wrote a public apology (it may have been an ‘Op Ed’ in one of the major newspapers) for his nephew back when he was in the previous administration. As a Jew, his uncle was obviously appalled at Stephen’s extremely cruel policy decisions that were seized on by his boss, TFG. I think he said he had become one of those ‘self-hating Jews’ that were an embarrassment to Judaism at large. Definitely something wrong with the guy.
I vaguely recall some older male relative saying something like "where do you think YOU come from, boychik?" I thought it was his grandfather, but it might have been the same uncle.
yeah, well, uhhh....there's a good reason for that.
Mr. Miller began his "public career" in high school when he made a speech decrying the fact that students were told to pick up gum wrappers, etc. because "there are people paid to do this."
he seems to have been compensating for his early baldness ever since...
Wow. Miller's high school protest comment against having to pick up gum wrappers so clearly conveys "I'm too important to pick up my own trash; surely we pay peons to do that sort of thing!" To me the most fascinating thing about Miller's arrogant elitist self identification with the worst shared attitudes between white nationalists and the ultra-rich is that Miller is Jewish. He's open about it, but espouses all kinds of policies that discriminate against immigrants, outsiders, and others who are at a disadvantage in America. Being Jewish doesn't seem to have given him any compassion for people who are oppressed or downtrodden.
I believe he probably *is* a sociopath.
Miller is only Jewish by birth. He is a reincarnated Adolf Eichmann. Even looks like him. Miller wasn’t alone in his kidnapping children as he had approval from the guy who looks like the Keebler cookie guy, who was Fake 45’s original Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. Miller then was allowed to procreate with a woman who is as awful as he is and they had a baby girl. They are trying out their own Aryan race. Disgusting deplorable humans amongst us all!
Since he is Jewish by birth and so is she, and they were married by a rabbi, it would be the height of irony and self-delusion if the thought they were starting an “Aryan race” as Hitler and Eichmann imagined that phrase.
This is absolutely a false equivalence. There is no excuse for what Trump did, but that was not national policy. The reason Putin is doing this has more to do with Russia's falling birth rate below the replacement level. We should ensure that the names of every one of these captured and kidnapped children are kept forefront in governmental communiqués with the Russian regime, demanding that they be returned safely and in good health.
Despicable doesn't begin to describe Putin and his supporters.
Not only does it demonstrate Putin's desperation, it also clearly shows what an absolute monster he is.
I can't read this.
I understand your comment. I raced through it, but it still made me sick. That MFer needs to fall head first into a peat swamp.
I bet someone is arranging his karma.
He’s creating his own Karma by his actions and words. That’s how it works.
God, I hope you are right.
As far as Putin is concerned when he dies the world ends, so what does he have to lose?
I fear it’s the other way around: if he is to die, he will do his outmost to make the world end too.
True, alas. And Jesus went to drink gin at the cat dish.
There will be Hell to pay
Kidnapping children and trying to abolish their heritage, culture and language is classic genocide. Putin has already said he wants to abolish Ukraine as an entity separate from Russia. Kidnapping these kids is just one part of his plan.
Hitler and the rest of the Nazi scum would be so proud of Vlad for putting his own twist on their Lebensborn depravity - Putinization.
Greg, you taught me something awful:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
Sickening isn't it? One of Putin's BS "justifications" for attacking Ukraine is to "denazify" it, then he proceeds to repeat one of the worst Nazi atrocities. Evil incarnate.
I literally feel nauseous.
I had such a visceral reaction to the thought of this unbelievable atrocity I actually got a severe case of diarrhea.
Thanks for sharing ...
I can’t begin to imagine what those parents are going through. Putin should be tried separately for each and every kidnapping. I suspect he’ll take the coward’s way out before we see any justice.
Can't imagine.
Criminal and unbearable.
Jared intends to be king.
His Manchurian puppets are Donald and Vladimir Backup puppets are Benjamin and Viktor.
But will king Jared float or sink in the Dead Sea salt.
Made from a Sodom and Gomorrah don't look back.
These people have, led by Putler, abrogated any semblance of humanity. They’re led by Putler, but if no one showed up to adopt, then…
We need to remember this when they want back into humanity.
I'm reading a great deal of false equivalence between the kidnappings that Vladimir Putin is doing as a way of terrorizing Ukrainians, as well as replacing dead or elderly Russians in the Russian workforce, now or in the future, and the countless examples of children here in America taken away from their families and placed into state-run schools where they would be talk to reject their own people and cultural heritage. The American government did it to the indigenous Native Americans as a matter of national policy, with the avowed publicly-stated purpose of making them more suitable for living and working in a white, Christian country. Their argument would have been something like they were saving the children from death by starvation and disease if they were allowed to remain with their families on the reservations. That's the sort of narrow-minded thinking that well-meaning people engaged in back in those years, and their triumphalist Christianity allowed them to do this with clear conscience. But that's not what we're talking about today with Vladimir Putin, and his blatant disregard of the norms of civilized society at every level. We should see things for what they are, and not seek to find counterexamples from our history that are intended to muddle clear thinking into the kinds of false equivalences that people are wont to do. We don't need to raise counterexamples showing them within our own lifetime, millions of other children were packed into cattle cars and sent to death camps, simply to show that Vladimir Putin is less bad than he might otherwise be. Bad enough is more than enough! Putin's actions constitute a war on children, specifically; and for that, we need for Putin to be punished as severely as our laws allow. That is yet another reason why we in the West need to harden ourselves to the task of defeating Putin, despite everyone's wish that this situation would simply go away on its own. Vladimir Putin is an existential threat to our entire way of life, and we cannot afford to let up on supporting Ukraine by whatever means necessary, military, economic, social, and moral. Ukraine is currently finding our war by proxy, and we owe it to ourselves to support them in their hour of need.
Yes we need to do whatever it takes to defeat Putin.
The Nazis did the same in occupied Poland.Polish childres deemed to be Aryan" enough, ie.blond hair and blue eyes, were sent to be raised by German Nazi families.So just wbo are the Nazis?
Reminiscent of barbarians throughout hooman history.
Even after all the years depravity still has no bottom, only more company.
Putin is a monster. Horrifying really. I am definitely hoping to be around long enough to see him brought up before the Hague. It is brutal to read but necessary to know.
Hopefully after Jack Smith has successfully prosecuted tRump he can go back to The Hague and prosecute Putin for war crimes