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I know this is bait, but you’re making two very different comparisons right now.
“In recent weeks, we have seen Russia double down on some of its most despicable behavior in Ukraine.  This includes continuing to forcibly remove children from their families and homes in Ukraine and transfer them to Russia.  Over the New Year, Russia reportedly abducted as many as 2,000 children from Ukraine into Russia under the guise of protecting them from the ongoing violence of Russia’s own war,” Michael Carpenter, U.S. Permanent Representative to OSCE, said at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on Friday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
The U.S. diplomat also said that local puppet authorities in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk were already reportedly compiling lists of children to join the war when they come of age.
“Children born in 2005 and 2006 would now already be subject to compulsory military registration.  This advance planning to use Ukraine’s children as cannon fodder for Russia’s war is – I have no other words – it’s just plain evil,” Carpenter stressed.
As reported, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, previously stated that the number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia could total hundreds of thousands. >

I am at a loss of words. They are abducting children so that they can turn them into brain-dead soldiers for Russia in the future. Their historical strategy of trying to have more bodies on the battlefield than the other side has bullets, sets in stone the fact that Russia uses its population however they want to, and will abduct people from other countries to replace the ones they have sent to absorb bullets.
For those that are pro Russian, they are beyond help. There is no defense for any of this, and to say otherwise means you are compromised. >

I mean the ones that are pro russian, are the ones that should be on the line, but they're cowards so they're doing this. Fucking cowards. And the u.s. gop is protecting them. Cause theyre on the take. >

Which is why anything Republicans have an interest in must be questioned, as they are apparently beholden to foreign governments. >

I mean, working with foreign governments is fine,  but... like straight getting on their kneed and felating russia is WAY different. >

My heart aches reading this. >

The day will come when Russia will pay dearly for all that they have done. And it will hurt. It will hurt very much. >

!remindme 2 years >

another bargaining chip for the negotiating table I would suppose  
using these children as blackmail is heinous >

Many won't be found. >

Most, unfortunately 😔 >

Russia has a history of sending abducted children to death camps. >

I think they just want the repopulate Russia here. >

That's what I was thinking. Raise them as Russians, move Russians into Ukraine when they win. Hope to zod it doesn't play out that way. >

Sometimes I wonder how many children there are even left in Ukraine. Overall I think Russia abducted somewhere between 300,000 and half a million children. A lot of children also fled to Western countries with their mothers, about half of the 5.3 million Ukrainian refugees in the EU are children. That means about 3 million fewer children in the country. Before the war there were 7 million children in Ukraine, so that's nearly half. 
That's a particularly insidious side aspect of Putin's genocide. The longer this Russian invasion continues, the more doomed Ukraine's demographic future is. If these children grow up and take root in the EU or in Russia, a significant percentage might opt to stay there after the war. >

Well he wasn't looking to only do short term damage to Ukraine. >

It's a genocide.  Clear as day. >

According to the UN kidnapping children is a grave violation and even a war crime..
But really how can anyone defend Russia in this case? >

3 options 
1 - deny everything and ignore any information to the contrary 
2 - say the abducted children are being saved from the "evil, child killing, Nazis" in Ukraine 
3 - both 1 and 2 >

When challenged switch to whataboutism. >

As a (US) child born towards the end of the cold war, and yet old enough to remember and have a grasp on it: My memory is ingrained with hearing the USSR promising to defeat the US from within, and that one way it would do so is by "getting to you through your children".
As a child that frightened me, and I understood then what I understand in great detail now. The soviet union, kgb, and all those incorporated with maintaining similar mindsets are proud to say such things about their motives. It indicated a high level of comfort with acts of callous disregard to life and an eagerness to push an agenda via any means, especially very innocent non-combatants.
I would not be surprised to learn the number of Ukrainian children that have been kidnapped is much higher. Such evil knows no bounds and the world needs to swallow this insanely uncomfortable fact and not only stop it, but proactively stamp it out across the globe. Sick and evil in the worst ways. Our children are the people capable of providing solutions to current suffering, and learning how to grow above it and beyond it. To kidnap, torture, and weaponize a child's mind is making a conscious effort to destroy all aspects of life, it is beyond forgiveness and absolution. >

It’s evil. No ifs, ands, or buts. 
Russia is knowingly doing something legitimately evil all for the sake of destroying a country that they know they can’t take over. 
Just go home Russia and cease this needless war, before you decide to do something even more reprehensible, like actually use a WMD. 
Now I know that using one would be the end of them as a nation, and probably the end of the world…
But the fact that there is a non zero chance they might use it scares me. >

Surely this is a war crime? >

Yes, a form of genocide >

I read this stuff and just scream inside my head. >

Wonder who they sell them to? >

The same people who traffickers sell them to... >

Russia isn’t about to stop genociding now, it’s all they know. >

My worst fucking nightmare. >

That's horrible. Can't imagine what that must be like for the children and their families. >

Russians: "why are we so frequently portrayed as the baddies in movies and video games?" >

Unfortunately that has more to do with a handshake between the media industry and US intelligence services than actual good and bad guys. Russia is a brutal fascist dictatorship and has a history of brutal dictatorships. But don’t kid yourself that the west isn’t actively using things like video games and movies as a propaganda tool to use on us. The tools just work a bit differently in an open society >

“Nazis are bad, but the reason they are used as villains is pRoPaGaNdA” >

I still think we need anti-nazi propaganda >

Everyone in the West learns that Nazis are bad from young age >

That's what I thought...
...Until I met people that thought Nazis were cool. Shortly after that I met some real Nazis. Long story short, there is a Nazi compound somewhere in north rural Florida, they believe in some awful shit, and some of them have army experience. >

They're nazis because they want to be like that, not because it's not widely known that nazis were bad. No amount of propaganda will convince someone not to be something. >

Damn.. Russia you are really going all out for the world to hate you. >

Probably sell them for organs or sex slaves to fund the war. Meanwhile we can't agree to send long-range missiles and planes to Ukraine. >

Not necessarily. I think a number will be adopted by "kind" Russian families, who so kindly rescued them from the Nazi families and to educate them from believing things like Ukrainian identity or the fake Ukrainian language.
Like what Australia did to aboriginal children in the past. >

The families willing to take a kidnapped child and not return them are not "nice". Those children are basically still being used for slaves, "adoption" is just a ruse.  The aboriginal children were also subject to pretty horrific abuse. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 42%. (I'm a bot)


The deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is despicable and violates the Geneva Conventions.
"In recent weeks, we have seen Russia double down on some of its most despicable behavior in Ukraine. This includes continuing to forcibly remove children from their families and homes in Ukraine and transfer them to Russia. Over the New Year, Russia reportedly abducted as many as 2,000 children from Ukraine into Russia under the guise of protecting them from the ongoing violence of Russia's own war," Michael Carpenter, U.S. Permanent Representative to OSCE, said at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on Friday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
As reported, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, previously stated that the number of Ukrainian children deported to Russia could total hundreds of thousands.


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This breaks my heart. >

Wouldnt be surprised if Russia supplied Jeff Epstein with his assets and then killed him because he knew to much. 
Russia seems like the place where rich pedofiles buy their sex slaves. Thats why Donald Trumps son tried to adopt a kid from over there. >

Are the parents "allowed" to go with their abducted child at least? Because if not then there's something wrong with us not getting involved, he's stepped too far. >

You're talking about Russia, you know. Their parents are surely raped then executed if found alive >

This has sex trafficking written all over it - and it’s depressing. War triggers poverty which attracts pedophiles. 
If you haven’t, and want to understand and increase your awareness on this ever growing and horrific issue - check out the podcast “The Children in the Pictures”. >

This is why I don't feel bad for dead Russian soldiers. >

I do because they are mostly pawns.  The conscripts I mean. >

Future ground meat for their next pointless war. >

This conflict continues to check most of the boxes of genocide >

They’re already committed war crimes, may as well add this to the list. Every country has shown they don’t care. We should have nuked them the second they went into Ukraine. But nope… they’ll take over Ukraine, hurt more children, then plow more West. >

We do care.  But instigating a nuclear holocaust will kill even more children.  If any countries are complicit it’s China and India. >

While I applaud the US for bringing this up, find the whole thing abhorrent and truly am disgusted by the immorality of it all; maybe we should also discuss the children of immigrants separated from their parents by the previous US administration. Just saying.