Most military men are astute students of history. Adolf Hitler justified his treatment of the Jews, based in part, upon America's treatment of its native populations. Today, Putin's foreign minister, Sergei Levrov, wonders how the world can be so apologetic about Russia's treatment of Ukraine when this same world, across the board, never lifted a finger to impose a single sanction when America, under George W. Bush, brutally invaded Iraq, though Iraq had not committed a single offense against America.
By the way: Ukraine's President Zelensky made a mistake when he forced his civilian men between the ages of 18 and 60 to take up arms against the Russians. Once civilians fire on enemy troops, those civilians become legitimate military targets. After shooting at Russian soldiers during the day, those civilian soldiers, no doubt, go home to their apartments. Those apartments, then, immediately become legitimate military targets, especially when those civilians are soldiers, from time to time, take shots at the Russian soldiers, or drop "Molotov" cocktails from their apartments windows and roofs.
When President Zelensky started passing out weapons on the street with the instructions to "kill Russians" he gave up any right he might have had to cry "war crimes!" when the Russians return fire on his people.
I don't care anything about the Russians, but we must be fair.
