To date, the armed forces of the Russian Federation are responsible for 34,000 documented war crimes in their invasion of Ukraine. The parade of horribles runs the gamut from your bog-standard looting, assaults of every unsavory manner, destruction of civilian infrastructure,and mass murder, all the way to the more creative, like mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children, forced Russian citizenship, illegal annexation and a slow-rolling genocide of their own troublesome religious and ethnic minorities through conscription.
But, if Vladimir Putin wanted to be absolutely baroque, if Shoigu wanted to be professorial in giving cruel men license, then Russia would point all available comms at Kyiv and tight-beam a broadcast of this week’s unwatchable filth; a plate of raw sewage so unpalatable, it approaches criminality: New Mexico State vs.