Russia is a terrorist state. Doesn't matter if the targets are Chechen, Syrian or Ukrainian. Civilians are fair game in their eyes; women, children, it doesn't matter. They will do it to others if they think it is required.
I'd like to remind everyone that in the earlier days of 2022, Russians bombed the Mariupol Drama Theater where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, mostly women and children. Satellite shots of the building confirmed the word CHILDREN written in huge letters on two sides of the building before the strike. This was roughly same time they bombed a maternity hospital there. I remember seeing on TV a shell shocked pregnant woman being removed from the debris on a stretcher. Also remember them saying she and the baby both died.
Scholz, once again, disappoints. It's a shame he doesn't understand how his desire to avoid a big war could actually help ensure one. He wants that stalemate. I would like to think of all Europeans, Germans have the most cogent insight into just how much can be lost by ignoring the growth of violent fascism. What the hell, and it shouldn't take sharing a long border with Russia to understand this. Thank dog for our British, Polish, Baltic and Scandi friends.
Bottom line: Russia's invasion needs to be defeated so it's people have another chance to reset, like they were able to do for a short time in the 90s. If it stays together under real democratic rule, fine, if it fractures into competing regions, fine, but this Russian imperial wet dream ends here, in Ukraine.