Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. I distinctly remember as an eight-year-old boy watching the #Eichmann trial. Even at that age I knew what the #Holocaust was and when I watched it with my parents and siblings the horrors of #NaziGermany became even deeper etched in my mind. Then, when I was 16, I spent an

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2. evening at a cocktail party sitting next to William Shirer as he spoke of the war and the Nuremberg trials. Some 20 years later my sister married into the family that owns the Schloss where Shirer and the foreign press stayed during the trials.

3. My brother and I shared a deep interest the Nuremberg trials. As an aside, John was godfather when we baptized one of our sons in Nuremberg. One of my closest friends died on #PanAm103 along with DOJ's last Nazi hunter while we were in Nuremberg for the Holidays.

4. I have reported here on Syria for eight years and had hoped we would see war crimes tribunals but alas the people who are largely responsible for the genocide committed by #ISIS are our supposed partners and/or allies. But during that time, I studied Nuremberg and

5. the law that grew out of it in hopes that the #SyrianWarCrimesTribunals would be established and thus I have developed a reasonable degree of understanding of the elements of these crimes. A sufficient understanding to say with reasonable

6. certainty that people in this video can be charged and convicted of conspiracy to commit #genocide and conspiracy to engage in agressive war, the two major crimes brought in the Nuremberg charges. In March the ICJ found that Russia had likely committed violations

7. of these two crimes. The Nuremberg principals that were enshrined in the UN's formative documents apply this law universally. There is no immunity. No escape. Just like Eichmann. This video is particularly chilling because it may mean that #Putin and the Kremlin elite

8. reflected by these clownish #Kremlin propagandists, have all gone too far to ever back down. I believe that legally, all the people who have agreed to the commission of these atrocities like some of the people in this video proudly admitting their agreement to the

9. criminal purpose of these heinous crimes against humanity, have no future. And because of that, the likelihood of war between the west and Russia is much greater than I had previously thought. Despite this realization, it is also clear to me that the west cannot

10. back down and that the movement of a substantial land force to #Europe to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war with #NaziRussia is necessary. If Putin and his insiders are going to survive short of fighting a land war with the west on Russian territory, they need to

11. halt, withdraw unconditionally and sue for peace. More atrocities as proposed by this video will only insure there will be no peace until Russia's eventual defeat and surrender where, like Nazi Germany, the perpetrators will all be handed over or hunted to face

12. justice at #theHague.