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Susan Mackey's avatar

I have been reading about this, this morning. It again has angered me that we, the US, have imposed such restrictions on the use of weapons by Ukraine. When I watched the defense of Israel from Iran, I was so angry that we did not help Ukraine as we helped Israel. I am sure there are reasoning for that, but Russia targeting children should shame those who are restricting Ukraine’s capabilities. I believe Ukraine has the will to win, not sure about the US. While we are “cautious” Putin is laughing.

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Patti G's avatar

War may be hell, but Russia’s deliberate attacks on Ukraine’s hospitals and children are disgusting and outrageously cruel. War crime territory IMO.

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Dorothy Barnett's avatar

Not just your opinion. Definitely war crimes. Putin doesn’t dare leave his country except for North Korea, for fear of being captured and tried for his war crimes.

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KELTIK_WARRIOR (VINCE T 🦁 )'s avatar

The way I see it: This will end only when Vladimir Putin is taken out of the picture (play that in any way you want). And, shelling Moscow. To kill the snake, one must take off the head of the snake.

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Peter Summers's avatar

No comments about Putin or his potential partner Comrade Trump. Putin has proven over and over he is ruthless. It’s time to let the Ukrainians prosecute the war as they see fit. It’s a war of attrition. Putin has more cannon fodder (Russian conscripts) that the Ukrainian military cannot match. Get on with letting them win instead of trying to just holding the aggressors at bay!!! Does anyone thing Putin will stop with Ukraine? If so, it’s delusional.

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Gail Rouw's avatar

And Trump admires a foul creature that attacks a children's hospital??

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John D.'s avatar

I tell people in North Carolina: if the MAGA Fascist selects Senator J.D. Vance as his Vice President and wins, then Putin will have his man holding the second highest government position in the United States.

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yesstef's avatar

I read that T kids are all in for JD Vance for VP

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John D.'s avatar

It will be an existential danger to the United States if he becomes Vice President.

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yesstef's avatar

More so than any of the other choices?

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John D.'s avatar

Based upon what he has said in the recent past, he seems more in Putin’s corner than someone like Rubio.

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Sue Lewis's avatar

That’s bad but why are we sending weapons to a racist fascist government in Israel to commit the same type of atrocities?

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Thomas O’Leary's avatar

Thank you for your service.

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Marc Blackwell's avatar

This is visceral and unbelievable that it is still happening. Why it is that our country has two individuals, both incapable of leading this war to an end, as the only candidates for President, is on a sobering Monday, after the 4th of July, a poignant and deeply concerning question.

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Murray Smart's avatar

EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN needs to remember that Donald Trump SUPPORTS Putin AND his attacks on CHILDREN HOSPITALS!!! (Pro-life is just another Republican BS LIE!)) Putin and Trump do NOT care about human life and especially the lives of children. A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin is a vote for death and destruction in America and around the world!!!!

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Carol Gamm's avatar

Thank you for your reporting. Russia is a disgrace. We have to keep Putin’s fanboy out of the White House.

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Eric Klein's avatar

Putin has no shame, no morality, no conscience, just like his admirer in the US running for president. I just watched 60 minutes last night and how Putin has targeted even Americans with impunity. Why not? He faces no accountability. He destroys everything around him and suffers no personal consequences. Bomb the Kremlin? Blow up his valuable personal possessions? Rob him of his personal money? He knows he is teflon. He will never be tried for war crimes. He will never account for his actions. The Russian people will bear the brunt of any retaliation.

Putin will only stop the bloodletting of the world when he dies. If there is justice in the world, it would be a slow agonizing painful death.

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May Ng's avatar

Biden must allow Zelensky to attack those planes before they are airborne to attack innocent people in Ukraine. This is the most important war on Biden’s clock, he must not give the battle field initiative to Putin every time.

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Mike M's avatar

Any person who is willing to take such barbaric actions should be an international pariah, but to Donald Trump he is a friend and an ally. Trump said Putin was a 'genius'and 'savvy' for invading Ukraine. Is ths what genius looks like? Lindsey Graham tried to explain it away, but trump did not mis-speak. The Ukranians know all to well what subjugation by Russia means. Mr. Putin is no different. This is just one more reason, among many reasons, that Donald Trump and his stooges should never, ever get near the office of the president again.

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

Putin is the man who rules the country that Trump will make our primary ally. What is happening in Ukraine will happen in the rest of Eastern Europe if Trump is elected. Trump called Putin a "savvy genius" because he had annexed Crimea and other parts of Ukraine prior to his ruthless invasion, making conquest of all Ukraine more likely. This is exactly what Hitler did with Anschluss and the annexation of Czechoslovakia with the same justification, persecution of ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland. Of course, he ignored the Munich Pact and invaded Poland, starting WWII.

It is no wonder the Western Europeans are very afraid of a Trump presidency. His desire to weaken NATO has everything to do with giving Putin a stronger hand. Who knows how far a Trump-Putin alliance would go in their quest for world dominance, wealth and power? Of course, if this scenario comes to be, they will turn on each other just as Germany and Japan would have turned on each other had the Axis been victorious.

I really believe that if Trump wins, it will be the end of humanity; we will be incinerated and poisoned in a nuclear war either between Trump-Putin and the remaining free world or between Trump and Putin following their conquest of the rest of the world.

This is not a conspiracy theory, but a prediction based on facts and actual events.

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Dawn H's avatar

We need to admit Ukraine to NATO now. Russia needs to be dealt with swiftly before they can launch their nukes!!

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