Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war.
i can’t do much to help ukraine, but i can say this: fuck russia so hard.
You actually can. They welcome everyone as a soldier.
No they don’t, and certainly not untrained, out-of-shape, middle-aged, white-collar foreigners.
It’s much more useful if you can donate money to u24.gov.ua for example.
Of all the things Russia has done in Ukraine, I think this is one of the worst. They’re taking kids away from their families. To remove them from their communities at such a developmentally important age, then trafficking and brainwashing them who knows where is tantamount to genocide.
it is not tantamount to genocide, it’s literally genocide
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group
Just to counter the typical tankie argument, here’s one shitty thing USA hasn’t done, right?
We were doing this regularly as a matter of policy with illegal immigrants until…let me check my notes…the 2020’s.
I don’t support much of anything Russia has ever done, but this is not a point where we have any moral high ground over them whatsoever.
