@mtracey, your message here
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1583794255449186305?s=20&t=PTxl0lAXiv8BF2ZMI8cK0Aand here
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1583684064368001024?s=20&t=PTxl0lAXiv8BF2ZMI8cK0Aare not only wrong but deliberately so. I don't think you have it in you to admit when you are wrong but I will attempt to educate you anyway.
First, the numbers of civilian dead are only from Ukrainian controlled areas, Russia is not permitting access to the areas it controls, areas that often saw the most intense rubblization via concentrated and sustained air and artillery strikes. Some estimates for #Mariupol alone
80,000 dead. Thats 80,000 in a single city. Without liberation the true number is likely never going to be known because the Kremlin will not provide unfettered access. usnews.com/news/world-rep…
Additional reports from Mariupol and other areas also hint at Russia actively trying to conceal the dead via using mobile crematoria to simply hide the bodies. newsweek.com/ukraine-mariup…
To filling in the basements with cement and then building on top of the pours to forever entomb the victims like a unlucky dam workers in the 1930's. news.yahoo.com/mariupol-occup…
That was just the first issue. Then there is the second. Russia has kidnapped over 1.6 million Ukrainians. news.yahoo.com/mariupol-occup… These include hundreds of thousands of children than Russian state TV brags about calling them adopted orphans despite there being no transparency
or effort to see if the kids do in fact have parents of next of kin. The Russian state is even offering cash payments to Russians willing to store these stolen children. forbes.com/sites/ewelinao…
Do you have kids, nieces and nephews, god children? Children are literally the future generation. mirror.co.uk/news/world-new…
These kidnappings are de jure "genocide" Article II (e) of the Convention On The Prevention of Genocide states: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious
group, as such: (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Not de facto, de jure per a document which Russia (vice USSR) signed in 1949 and deposited on record in 1954. As the recognized successor state to the USSR including on the UNSC as a P5 member all
treaty obligations entered into by the Soviet's became and remain obligations owed by Russia. There is issue number three: permanent losses by means other than direct killing. Millions of Ukrainians and at least half a million Russians have fled the warring states and many
perhaps most will never return. Some will have built new lives in new lands and having little to nothing to return too will stay in the lands and among the peoples that took them in. In other cases return may put them at physical risk of prosecution. Though this mostly affects
Russian men who fled conscription. Regardless that is going to permanent population shrinkages in both countries measured in millions. The scale of the destruction, loss and wastage is very much on par with what we saw in WWII. It dwarfs the suffering of any other post WWII war
except maybe Korea in terms of how the suffering is so concentrated in such a short amount of time. Other nations have suffered more: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, DRC but it took longer. Speaking of those above mentioned nations. I know you like to blame the US, but can you
point one out that doesn't have a locus to the USSR/Russia? What we are witnessing in Ukraine is a #GenocideOfUkrainians the #UkraineRussianWar is not a disagreement between co-equals who resorted to violence. It is a war of imperial aggression very much in line with WWII. A war
that ended with nuclear fire balls. Here again, we have Russia making threat after threat to unleash that hellish genie as well. Now setting aside the quesstion about reuters.com/world/europe/q…
proliferation if the threats work, its the threat themselves that must be responded too. One of the great tragedies of WWII was the reduction of so many urban areas to rubble and ash. Both sides did it and revelled in it. Berlin was as flat as Warsaw which was as burned out as
Tokyo which was as filled with the dead as Leningrad. So the threats have to be taken seriously. Which the US self evidently is.
https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1583309272355831808?s=20&t=IRd2mWWFs8kGm13dojraVQ
I know you used the misleading figures deliberately to unplay the threat from Russia to make the US look like the baddie but that is dishonest. Millions of dead, injured and displaced via a war of aggression impose legal, moral and ethical obligations on all of us. We promised
Ukraine via the Budapest Memorandum to come to her aid if she was attacked when she agreed to give up her nukes. We promised the ghosts of the gas chambers "Never Again" during the Nuremburg Trials, and we promised the world via the UN Charter to seek peace which is not the same
as capitulation to dictators. Its why I write my leaders @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill everyday. I know where I stand, I know the risks and I stand here anyway. Imagine what you could have achieved, might still achieve if you turned aside from deliberate
imperialist stance you currently have. You could be a force for good. I could be talking about your writings the way I talk about the @MriyaReport instead of doing point by point take down articles. Your voice could be raising money for charities like @MriyaAid or @3xR_team
instead of being meme'd and lampooned. You could be so much more than just todays object lesson in one of my essays. #UkraineWillWin and #russiaisaterrorisstate and neutrality only helps the victimizer never the victim. Until Ukraine wins of Ukraine's terms: Slava Ukraini!
#Arkasnas #UkraineUnderAttack #ukrainecounterattack #Bakhmut #Kherson
@mfa_russia
<--- still losing and did you see the size of that can of find out?
@mfa_russia
<--- still losing and did you see the size of that can of find out?
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