Clearly Putin and the Russian army have channeled the morality of Hitler and the Third Reigh. And despite these sickening atrocities, we have Putin-supporting fake Americans all over the place. SPLC has it's work cut out for it tracking Putin-Conservatives who gladly swallow Murdoch's lies. (May every one drop dead as prematurely as possible).
Many years ago, NATO promised to not go east, toward Russia.
Alpha males cannot stop themselves and the people they govern let them remain in power.
Although this was discussed between James Baker and Gorbachov and may have been verbally agreed there is no written agreement to limit the expansion of NATO but in 2003 the Russian Federation did agree to legally respect the borders of Ukraine including Crimea.
Putin is a thug who along with the so called oligarchs stole billions from the Russian people at the break up of the Soviet Union. Hopefully this deluded psychopath can be removed from power before he starts WW3
It's heartbreaking what is going on there, and in other cities. Sickening that the Russian citizens are being told these are all "crisis actors" and the horrors are all just for show to make Russia look bad. Horrible and incomprehensible.
Mariupol alone is horrifying