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At National Review, Jay Nordlinger decries Russia’s cruel tactics in the war in Ukraine. He writes:
• Ukrainians are doing all they can to resist occupation or subjugation. They know what it means. They have had experience, for generations. Consider this:
Russia invaded and occupied parts of Kyiv region for 38 days in 2022. As a result and since then, 1,590 bodies have been found in the area: 1,202 civilians; 208 military and police; 180 unidentified. Additional 307 residents remain missing. via Ukrinform https://t.co/hZUfstQExX
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 13, 2024
• Earlier this year, I wrote a piece about Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. I have pasted a couple of tweets from him, above. (Christopher Miller is a correspondent for the Financial Times.) Let me quote a bit from my piece about Trofimov:
In the West, including the United States, a variety of myths about Ukraine are believed. One of them is that Russian-speakers in the east of the country want to be ruled by Moscow.
Yes.
Here is a subsequent paragraph:
Trofimov recalls the words of the mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov. The two of them were speaking in a bunker as the city was being shelled. “He told me that the most ferocious enemies of Russia are the Russian-speakers in the east, because they are the ones who find themselves on the wrong end of Russian guns, they are the ones whose cities are being destroyed, whereas people in western Ukraine mostly watch the war on TV.”
Anyway, this belief about Ukraine and Russian-speakers is deeply entrenched in the West. It is deeply entrenched on the populist right. And, as David French says, Elon Musk is “the second most important person in MAGA.” (Musk has 177 million Twitter, or X, followers.)
Makes me sick, man. There are tens of thousands of russian-speaking Ukrainians of Mariupol currently in unmarked mass graves who didn’t want to live under the russian flag. pic.twitter.com/NKIhZa6iYT
— Markian Kuzmowycz (@markiank) March 13, 2024
• Rosa María Payá is the daughter of Oswaldo Payá, the martyred Cuban democrat and hero. A few weeks ago, she took note of something:
At least 17 young Cubans died on February 15th in Ukraine while serving in the Russian army.
The Cuban regime facilitates the recruitment of young Cubans into the Russian army while providing political, diplomatic, and communication support to Putin. pic.twitter.com/pBZ7IgE2UH— Rosa María Payá A. (@RosaMariaPaya) February 26, 2024
They have been partners for a long time: the Kremlin and the Cuban dictatorship. Putin has many allies: China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela . . . Dictatorships are pretty good at allying with one another; the democracies should be half as good.
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