For those of us that have studied Russia's actions in Chechnya + Syria, Russia's actions are standard operating procedure in our experience – but there's plenty of people who think that this brutality is somehow foreign/invented for this conflict because they don't know jackshit. https://t.co/yZi5VBrTiS
— Sharon thinks Sohrab should go to confession (@Sharon_Kuruvila) April 4, 2022
It was always likely Russia was going to do exactly what they are in fact doing. That people believe this is “staged” or somehow a Ukrainian PR thing shows just how fucking ignorant and clueless they are. I’m surprised there wasn’t more carnage, honestly. If they’d reached Kyiv proper there would’ve been.