Thread by @JBelcourt73

Buckle up, this won't be a happy thread, but it is a thread that needs to be made to say the quiet part outloud so there is no veneer to hide behind. First off hat tip to @PeterCorless and @marshray for making the TASS info so easy to find

398,353 kids who were stolen per Russia's own admission. Who are they, what does that number mean and using history as a guide what is their likely fate? Those are the three questions where quiet parts need to be said out loud. So, keep your buckets close you might need them to

catch the mess when your stomach decides to do its own forced "evacuation". First off who are these kids? Honestly, no one knows. No one can know. Most are going to be orphans either mom dad were killed by Russian invaders in Ukraine, in filtration, or because Russia has been

targeting the very young where there are no papers, so the kids themselves cannot provide the full information and new papers have been issued that hide their origin so that even if the parents survive the record of their child is gone. Other older kids who do know who they are

will disappear into the interior of Russia headed to a fate worse than death if history is a reliable guide. Oh sure a few will manage to stay with their parents and make it through "filtration' as intact family units and a few will be smuggled to freedom by a loose and not near

big enough network of Russians who have not lost their humanity: but they are going to be the exception. Do not forget that the number 398,353 may be no more real than a Putin promise. It may be overstated to cause terror, understated, completely made up, or totally factual, we

simply have no way of knowing the truth because Russian society runs on lies and corruption. It is that corruption that is going to enable the fate worse than death. Before we dive into that bucket of horrors we need to establish exactly what we are talking about.

There is a reason forced population transfers are forbidden by international law. If someone invades your country and carries you away from the land of your birth by force, threat or enticement, coercion you are not a refugee, an emigre a displaced person or any other "euphemism"

you are a slave. Your humanity has been stripped and your value now is in whatever service or labor your masters can get out of you. According to Russia's own numbers some 5% of Ukraine's population has now been marched off into slavery. Again, that some will make it out does not

diminish the stench. So, what does history have to say about kids carried off? Once they reach an age where they can perform a useful task, labor is obviously on the cards. Most of that labor will likely be the type that drives people to an early grave. BTW that early grave is

why slaving societies need a steady supply of new slaves and turn into warmongering empires. Chattel labor is addictive. Something my own country had to deal with by sacrificing 1.5 million of its sons to death and disfigurement during our civil war and we are still dealing with

the ripple effects. So, Russia is not going to stop with this war unless stopped. She will be an addict. But that addiction is to real people. Either formally or informally there are going to be "markets" springing up inside Russia where masters can purchase people. They are

addicted to. any of the Ukrainian slaves that survive the labor will eventually be sold on to a new master. There are no career paths for slaves, you do as you are told until you die and refusal results in beatings, hunger and murder. The markets will have humane names but are

not really adoption agencies, employment agencies etc, they are markets. If a Russian business owner needs say a factory worker he can sponsor (buy) the labor he needs and money will change hands. Even if the slave is paid it will be far less than the value of their labor,

bodily autonomy and freedom. But lets get back to the kids, remember when I said most are going to be too young to remember who they were born as who mom and dad were and where they lived. These poor souls are going to get it the worse. Imagine being 5 years old and you just got

"adopted" into a society that famously doesn't adopt its own actual orphans. What service can you possibly provide? Yeah, that one. As a survivor or childhood sexual assault this enrages me. I will never be the person I could have been because of my childhood. Its why I became an

addict. Yeah, decades later I am functional and thriving, but the scars are still there. No one walks away from the hell of child sexual abuse unscarred and too many go on to lives wrecked by addiction mental illness and often becoming abusers. Thats the fate that Russia has

decreed for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian kids. We are watching a massive, state sponsored prolonged mass rape of kids. This is major reason why I write every single day. I've stood in those shoes and I must bear witness so I tag @JohnBoozman @SenTomCotton and @RepFrenchHill

every single day. Its why I use the slogan, "pain now or pain forever. It's not just pain for us here in the free world, or Ukrainians living under the threat of Russian violence, but the pain of the slaves and sex trafficked children. Its why I donate to charities like @MriyaAid

@georgian_legion and now @Teoyaomiquu effort to get hearing protection for Ukrainian artillerymen. Its why I listen in and contribute on @walter_report and ultimately why I am a #WeAreNAFO Fella. This must not be permitted to stand, somehow, we must figure out who these kids are

them out of Russia before any more damage is done to them. #russiaisaterrorisstate #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #arkansas #stopchildabuse #StopRussiaNOW #stoprape @mfa_russia @RussianEmbassy

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Slava Ukraini! We must support Ukrainian victory on Ukrainian terms until her lands are free and all her people and especially her children are no longer captive to the genocidal regime in Kleptograd.