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I'd vote to capture you know who and end it that way instead.
I have wondered why we need to announce to the world that we were giving Mig fighters to Ukraine....why broadcast this stuff???
At this point, I wish Ukraine would surrender. Save lives. Buy the rest of the world time to strategize. We can’t just step in bc we fear what may happen. We see what is happening—to Ukraine. Stop the bleeding. Now. If after surrendering the bloodshed continues, then it’s time to take action.
It’s a disgusting, disgraceful and devastating situation.
That “creature” needs to be taken down and taken out. There is no negotiating with insane maniacs.
I think it’s nonchalant to guilt other countries like the USA into?
Could you please elaborate?
Ukraine is a large ( the largest European country by area, larger than France (Texas for your reference) with over 40 million people.
"Just surrender" is a bit nonchalant.
If you truly think that that means anyone can grab anything as long es he's stronger and bloodshed will cease after surrender?
Good to know. Any country is up for grabs then?
Mariupol — in southeastern Ukraine, near the Russian border — has been under siege for more than two weeks. It is the city where Russia last week bombed a maternity hospital and yesterday attacked a theater that hundreds of civilians were using as a shelter. It was unclear how many of those sheltering survived, according to a Ukrainian official. |
Since the war began, two of the few working journalists in Mariupol have been Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka of The Associated Press. My colleagues and I were deeply affected by their dispatch, and we’re turning over the lead section of today’s newsletter to an excerpt from it. |
The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling. |
There’s 18-month-old Kirill, whose shrapnel wound to the head proved too much for his little toddler’s body. There’s 16-year-old Iliya, whose legs were blown up in an explosion during a soccer game at a school field. There’s the girl no older than 6 who wore the pajamas with cartoon unicorns and who was among the first of Mariupol’s children to die from a Russian shell. |
They are stacked together with dozens of others in this mass grave on the outskirts of the city. A man covered in a bright blue tarp, weighed down by stones at the crumbling curb. A woman wrapped in a red and gold bedsheet, her legs neatly bound at the ankles with a scrap of white fabric. Workers toss the bodies in as fast as they can, because the less time they spend in the open, the better their own chances of survival. |
“Damn them all, those people who started this!” raged Volodymyr Bykovskyi, a worker pulling crinkling black body bags from a truck. |
More bodies will come, from streets where they are everywhere and from the hospital basement where the corpses of adults and children are laid out, awaiting someone to pick them up. The youngest still has an umbilical stump attached. |
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Each airstrike and shell that relentlessly pounds Mariupol — about one a minute at times — drives home the curse of a geography that has put the city squarely in the path of Russia’s domination of Ukraine. This southern seaport of 430,000 has become a symbol of the drive by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, to crush a democratic Ukraine — and also of a fierce resistance on the ground. The city is now encircled by Russian soldiers, who are slowly squeezing the life out of it, one blast at a time. |
The surrounding roads are mined and the port blocked. Food is running out, and the Russians have stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. Electricity is mostly gone and water is sparse, with residents melting snow to drink. People burn scraps of furniture in makeshift grills to warm their hands in the freezing cold. |
Some parents have even left their newborns at the hospital, perhaps hoping to give them a chance at life in the one place with decent electricity and water. |
Death is everywhere. Local officials have tallied more than 2,500 deaths in the siege, but many bodies can’t be counted because of the endless shelling. They have told families to leave their dead outside in the streets because it’s too dangerous to hold funerals. |
Just weeks ago, Mariupol’s future seemed much brighter. If geography drives a city’s destiny, Mariupol was on the path to success, with its thriving iron and steel plants, a deepwater port and high global demand for both. |
By Feb. 27, that started to change, as an ambulance raced into a city hospital carrying a small motionless girl, not yet 6. Her brown hair was pulled back off her pale face with a rubber band, and her pajama pants were bloodied by Russian shelling. |
Her wounded father came with her, his head bandaged. Her mother stood outside the ambulance, weeping. |
As the doctors and nurses huddled around her, one gave her an injection. Another shocked her with a defibrillator. “Show this to Putin,” one doctor said, with expletive-laced fury. “The eyes of this child and crying doctors.” |
They couldn’t save her. Doctors covered the tiny body with her pink striped jacket and gently closed her eyes. She now rests in the mass grave. |
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This agony fits in with Putin’s goals. The siege is a military tactic popularized in medieval times and designed to crush a population through starvation and violence, allowing an attacking force to spare its own soldiers the cost of entering a hostile city. Instead, civilians are the ones left to die. Serhiy Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, predicts worse is soon to come. Most of the city remains trapped. “People are dying without water and food, and I think in the next several days we will count hundreds and thousands of deaths.” " |
I think it’s nonchalant to guilt other countries like the USA into
Fighting for a country that has over 40 million people. The leader of that country made a choice and still has a choice but is trying to drag others in. Meanwhile his own people have fled. And to assume that the same will happen to other countries is speculation and fear mongering. Let’s all dive in and destroy this world bc you know, just in case… nope. We don’t jump in to solve other nation’s conflicts. This one is no different—except some people are being convinced it is for several emotional reasons. We are not the world police.
Also. I am entitled to my opinion in a thread that is asking for an opinion. Sorry not sorry that it disagrees with yours. I’m putting American lives first.
You're mixing up two things: you don't want to put American lives in danger. You don't think other countries should get dragged in. That's one thing. And yes, absolutely that's the question of this thread.
But:
Just telling someone to surrender and give up to not shed more blood is totally different and is victim blaming.
("She should shut up so her husband doesn't get angry again ... That's what's landing her in the hospital every single time" - same logic).
Also:
"His own people have fled" is is not factual.
Please look it up. Women flee with their children to protect those. Able bodied men stay to fight. And those who don't WANT to stay HAVE to stay. Since the beginning men 18-55 are not allowed to leave the country. The nearly 2 million displaced people are in vast majorities children, women, elderly.
I didn't call out a simple vote: " no, let's not get dragged in there"
I point out that it's not the responsibility of the victim to stop fighting & surrender to stop bloodshed after having been attacked.