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Deminpenn

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3. Here is what is telling
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:38 PM
Mar 2022

Last edited Wed Mar 2, 2022, 07:15 AM - Edit history (1)

Those videos of Russian tanks and other military vehicles stopping when Ukrainian civilians step in front of them. A ruthless military doesn't stop, they just roll over whoever is in their way. Not only do they stop, then the Russian ground troops just take being yelled at and cursed by the Ukrainians.

All that really made me wonder how committed the ground troops are to killing people they regard as fellow countrymen.

I'll bet the generals wonder that, too, or else they would not be relying on missiles shot from afar where pilots or missile batteries cannot see the faces of those they are killing.

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