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Summary execution is a war crime under most circumstances, yes. But did summary executions, extra-judicial killing take place -- as claimed by one of the warring parties?
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha - The New York Times
WWW.NYTIMES.COMWitness testimony and videos obtained by The New York Times show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in a Kyiv suburb on March 4, a potential war crime. -
A thread from Twitter wherein the poster reviews historical political map overlays. For map-lovers and second-look givers.
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Endless war versus shorter war plus Lockheed Martin and the US Mint ...
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I do not know yet if this has anything to do with the fabled Scythian gold. Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, precursors to the Ossetes? I do not know yet.
It's maybe Off-Topic Thursday. Time to share out some weird songs, videos, dispatches or speeches that ring down through the decades for me. I spent some time looking at OL's early happy community building on a couple of online schism topics. Soon it will be anniversary time. WSS among a crop of early adopters, sweet sixteen.
We should probably have one of them what the Germans called (and the scholarly anglo-saxon guilds adopted) ye olde Festschrift on Michael's earliest and most lavish arguments. Time to display some of the finer pieces from the hoards of gold?
[I just figured out how to use an aspect of Michael's gift-tip (lifetime license) with Blakify.com's text-to-speech renderings. The super-special voices have some but not all of the really wonky voice modifications that require a facility in writing SSML code -- but some have easier to use buttons and selections lists. For example, "Sara," a rather casually-voiced American, can be tuned to Cheerful, Angry or Sad, whereas a few choice others can be tuned to have a News voice. The voice below was the best I could do to get an elderly, been through the wars UK English voice to render Susan Haack]
I was a bore on Susan Haack then in my boring debut posts, but retained a decent quote:
“We are in danger of losing our grip on the concepts of truth, evidence, objectivity, disinterested inquiry. The preposterous environment in which academic work is presently conducted is inhospitable to genuine inquiry, hospitable to the sham and the fake.”
Fuller context, pithy and topical for the age. Article link below.
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Richard Salsman gets a nod of disapproval from Ari Armstrong ...
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From one of the inside Russia channels I recently subscribed to: "Do you think the World hates Russia?" These are not the same folks as my workaday apolitical Valeria or Sergey ...
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Substack has an audio podcast option, that allows for Twitter embeds of full files on the Twitter app timeline. Eg,
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The recriminations are beginning to mount, now that the Ukrainian story prevails over the 'official' version from the Russian state. The Moskva was the pride of the Russian Black Sea fleet. The Ukrainians got an enormous boost of morale by sinking it -- especially since it seems their home-grown "Neptune" cruise missiles were rushed out of prototype and into battle.
Julia Davis is a longtime Russia hand. On Twitter she shares excerpts from Russia's main TV channels and its most popular news shows. Here are a couple touching on the Moskva:
Yikes.
Human resources.
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File under "Ominous Parallels." Or, simply, "Ominous."
Biden Administration to Provide Ukraine With More Intelligence, Heavier Weapons to Fight Russia
WWW.WSJ.COMThe moves will enable Ukraine to target Moscow’s forces in Donbas and Crimea and counter an anticipated Russian offensiveIs it intellgent to share that much military intelligence with the so-called Nazi regime in Kyiv?
The warmongo rumourgossip just now is of a 'devastating blow against the pride of Russia's fleet ...
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How does one begin to verify something like this ... ?
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"It's hard to process." I've read this a lot in the last few days.
Dead Lay Out in Bucha for Weeks, Refuting Russian Claim, Satellite Images Show - The New York Times
WWW.NYTIMES.COMThe images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, near Kyiv, took place after its soldiers had left town.-- hard to process as well are such things as detailed in this thread from Twitter:
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We are going to see a lot of images like that.
Do you think the streets were filled with a crowd when soldiers opened fire and those are the people unlucky enough to be struck down ? Or were they shot where they stood defiantly in front of soldiers, did the soldiers shot them simultaneously or start at the top of the block and the later victims just stood their unarmed ground ? Curios and curiouser.
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Fog of war, fog of war.
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According to various enemies of the people, Russia has allowed a "humanitarian corridor" for evacuating remaining Ukrainian civilians out of Mariupol.
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I've been looking, still not finding definitive numbers of casualties in the theater. It's either one dead, or 300 (claimed by the City Council). Photos of bodies shown in some other place, nothing came out from journalists here. "Hampered" by bombardment, I doubt. 16 march is over two weeks back. This all seems theatrical like that sombre music...
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What is "De-escalation" for 500 ...
Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Begins To Withdraw Forces In The North
WWW.THEDRIVE.COMRussia's top negotiator in talks with Ukrainian officials said this de-escalation should not be confused for a ceasefire. -
Zelensky speaks with Russian journalists?
Mother Russia and "Little Russia" ...
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Add a bit of Google Translate and you can read along at Meduza.
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