State propagandists and their online hangers-on look utterly disgusting in the face of the now completely irrefutable evidence of Russian soldiers’ involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.
It is sickening to look at these “patriots” who, in their hypocrisy, fail to notice the schizophrenia that has already set in: 1) we demand that troops be sent into Ukraine; 2) if evidence of troops being sent in emerges, we will furiously insist that these are some completely unrelated soldiers. Not ours. All the graves were printed on an inkjet printer.
So, just so Putin’s state-connected businessmen—all those Yakunins, Rotenbergs, and Timchenkos—can once again say “sanctions can’t touch us”, someone has to lie in a grave beneath a plaque reading “Soldier No. 9.”
The families of dead soldiers must bury them in secret, keep silent about where they were killed, and through tears tell journalists on the phone, “He’s alive”.
And prisoners of war are left to wonder whether Mother Russia will acknowledge them as her own, or whether they too will be sacrificed for the security of someone’s Swiss offshore account.
Disgraceful. A little bit of war, a little bit of business.
If our soldiers are there, then that is exactly what should be said: our soldiers are there, we acknowledge them, and we will not abandon them.
This whole war, of course, needs to be ended as soon as possible. It’s sheer madness.
Update: this is exactly what it means to “betray your own”: “Russian servicemen ACCIDENTALLY crossed a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border in an area where they were on patrol, a Defense Ministry source said.”
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