Ways of a Terror-State

In Syria, Russian forces perfected the method known as “double tapping.” It works like this: You bomb a school, an apartment building, what have you. Some are killed, some are maimed. Then the rescuers come: to see who can be saved in the rubble. Then you bomb again, killing more and maiming more. That’s the “double tap.”

What the Russians perfected in Syria, they are using in Ukraine, over and over.

A report from the Associated Press begins,

Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Saturday killed at least nine people, officials said.

The first strike killed one person. Russia attacked again while patients and staff were evacuating, said Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko.

Local officials in Sumy said Shahed drones were used in the attack.

Those drones come from Iran, of course, one of Putin’s important allies — along with China and North Korea.

Here is Anton Gerashchenko on the atrocity:

Many Americans were outraged when Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania two Sundays ago. Can they muster a tenth of the outrage for Russia’s repeated murder of innocents in Ukraine?

The Kremlin is trying to destroy and subjugate Ukraine in an attempt to rebuild the Russian and Soviet empire. The Ukrainians are fighting to the death, to save their country, their freedom, their independence. They are fighting for their very right to exist.

This matters not just to Ukrainians but, ultimately, to us all.

Not content with bombing a hospital in Sumy, Russian forces have now bombed a grocery store in Kherson. Here is Illia Ponomarenko:

Russia is a terror-state, plain and simple. Civilized nations should do all they can to stop it — to help the Ukrainians stop it. Again, this is in the interest of all.

The U.S. ambassador has been noble — as here:

And yet the U.S. government can and should do more. Time may be very, and mercilessly, short.