The Russian leader’s strategy might be to kill civilians so that he can take the empire back. Or repel Nato’s westward march. Or stop democracy from reaching his country. It really doesn’t matter. He will obliterate innocents without blinking to achieve whatever is in his bloated head.
Imagine this, if you will. A Russia, whose army is bogged down by poor logistics, facing furious and determined citizen defenders and frustrated by increasing sales of drones, anti-tank missiles and financial support from the West.Imagine this, if you will. Because you must.
But obscene because they are just too far from the images of a crying 11-year-old girl whose non-combatant parents have just been killed by Russian mortars. Parents who just a short time ago were likely taking her to play in the local park in the slowly thawing winter.a tyrant killing and innocents dying. The intellectual meanderings of wonks often miss this stark matter.
I saw something on social media this morning. A young Ukrainian mother posted a before and after photo. Her home. Before the war – a sweet, small house with a garden and flowers. And now, monochrome dark rubble. Her post was short– “I will never forgive”.
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