At a critical time, I’d like to revive these threads on Russia’s horrific war crimes. They are difficult to read and they were painful to write. It’s shocking that such extreme evil, authorised and encouraged by a state, exists. Thread 1 based on UN report from March 15, 2024.

Those who respond to this with, “So you are equating Ukrainians, who provoked no one, with Palestinians, some of whom committed a terrible crime?” are disingenuous. There is no equating of anyone with anyone else: collective punishment is a crime, period.

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Those who (believe they) support Ukraine while acquiescing in or advocating for the collective punishment of any other group of people are living in bad faith: they cannot legitimately do both at the same time.⬇️.

A society may bear moral responsibility for the crimes of its leaders and army; that is why Germany went through a denazification process. There is, however, no valid concept of legal collective responsibility and collective punishment, which is prohibited by international law.⬇️.

If you agree with the statement that a group of people (Palestinians most obviously) is collectively responsible for or guilty of something, you are not different from the Russian génocidaires. You may sincerely believe you are but I’m here to tell you that you are not.⬇️.

Russia isn’t hiding its feverish preparations for aggression beyond Ukraine. The Russian state’s raison d'être is unceasing aggression. If the aggression stops, the regime collapses and Putin finds himself sodomised with a long sharp object and then shot, Gaddafi style.

Therefore, much as I detest Trump and his treasonous and idiotic actions, it isn’t Trump’s tariffs or anything else Trump, Biden, Obama or anyone else did that caused Modi to heap praise and love on the Kremlin midget. Modi is India’s Putin. A genocidal, murderous extremist.

When Muslim victims begged for police protection, individual police officers reacted quickly to try to stop the massacre but were quickly pulled. A police commissioner told a Muslim community member, “We have been ordered not to save you.”.

Human Rights Watch and Indian NGOs have compiled extensive evidence that the attacks had been meticulously planned by Modi’s BJP state government, colluding with Hindu extremist groups one of which Modi belonged to, long before the fire.

“18 people from my family died. All the women, my brother, my three sons, all died. My boys ages 10, 8, and 6. My girl, 12. They first cut them in pieces and then burned them. The girls were raped. First they took their jewellery. I saw it with my own eyes.“.A survivor report.

In 2005, an Indian federal government commission would conclude the fire had been accidental. Hindu extremists, however, quickly blamed Muslims. Does that remind you of the Odesa Russian “martyrs?” It should because then the following happened.

In February 2002, a train with Hindu pilgrims was returning from a Hindu temple provocatively built on the site of an ancient mosque that Hindus had destroyed in 1992. The train was surrounded by an angry group of Muslims. A fire erupted, killing 59 on the train.

Modi’s adoration of Putin is NOT due to U.S. actions. Modi, like Putin, is a genocidal extremist. In 2002, Hindu extremists slaughtered 1,000 Muslims in Gujarat. The Chief Minister of Gujarat was Modi, who ordered police to stand down. Modi used tactics Putin later would.⬇️.

She was 13 years old when she was raped by Trump and Epstein. Case 5:16-cv-00797-DMG-KS was later dropped after she received multiple death threats. But it’s not rape if a future president does it, right?

I don’t ever want to hear about how “appearing strong” is the primary motivator for Trump. Putin has spent weeks ritually humiliating Trump by denying everything he claimed, openly mocking diplomacy and doubling down on war. Trump’s response: “Yes, more, please, Master, sir!”.

Not even Stalin, Mao and any of the Kims at the height of their megalomania went quite this far in fabricating figures as Trump has. The Five Year Plan’s quotas for steel and grain were forever over-fulfilled but that pales in comparison with Trump’s phantasmagoria.

Wrong. Without the post-war international order that placed sovereignty and freedom above the interests of imperial owners, India would still have been what it was before that — someone else’s property. But do continue to spit on the liberal order and to worship genocidal.

Putin’s comfort men in the West:.- banning Russian teams won’t stop the war.- sanctions won’t stop the war .- banning Russian fossil fuels won’t stop the war .- arming Ukraine won’t stop the war. So they have admitted nothing short of force would.

The U.S. State Department promotes Russian propaganda and tries to help the far-right European allies of Putin and Trump. What else can you expect with a State Department staffed by Putin lovers, extremists and Ukraine haters?.

You may yield on whether you end up living in a small or a large house. You may not ever yield on, say, giving up one of your kids, your spouse and parents for the promise of being allowed to live. Because making that choice is a guaranteed forfeiture of your own life.

There is a hierarchy of priorities in the responsible international community just as there is one in an individual life. There are things not worth defending to the last. And then there are things that we must never, not once yield on because doing so is suicidal.