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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

If you're surprised by the horrific scenes out of Bucha, then you weren't paying attention to Aleppo and/or Grozny. This is the Russian playbook; we're just getting a better view of it now. The question is, are we willing to risk to a nuclear war and/or the cyberdestruction of our power grid to take Russia down? I question whether as a society we are willing to pay that price. And, what will China do? Will it actively intervene on behalf of its Russian ally?

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Don Bates's avatar

Excellent commentary Diane. You nailed it when you said “Putin’s mass murder is rooted in a Hitlerian ‘super race’ theology”. It is “chillingly similar.” How else do you explain their hubristic, chauvinistic, arrogant behaviour where they refer to Ukrainians as ‘khokhols’, a derogatory term that denigrates Ukrainians to sub-human status? Russians have been fed this super race rubbish since 1917. They have been inundated with propaganda that only Mother Russia can purify the world. First, by Soviet Communism and now with idiots like Dugin running around like some Russian mystic spouting doctrines of Russian glory. You are right Diane that Russia’s armed forces must be obliterated and it’s economy dismantled.

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