TV coverage of bodies lying in the street, many of them bound, mass graves and blown up buildings are going all over the West, and making us think the Russians are real barbarians. It is doing them harm, we think that people that uncivilized need some harsh sanctions, like cutting off their oil sales, messing with their credit, seizing $120 million yachts, and other stuff is what they deserve.
If the Russians had any sense, they wouldn’t leave dead civilians lying in the streets. I don’t know where Putin himself is coming from, but the high command of the Russian army ought to have insisted that the troops lay off the civilians. Somewhere down the chain of command, things were let slip. Could have been officers at the division level, or at the brigade level, or the company level. Or it could be that the troops just ignored their officers and started shooting civilians. How ever it happened it hurt the Russians badly. They should have known what this sort of behavior would do to them, and they should have prevented it. They failed, and they are now drawing world wide condemnation.
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