Dakota Beacon

Wow.  Some of the same people who were not willing to accept at face-value claims that Michael Brown was shot by police in cold blood are, it seems, quite willing, on the other hand, to believe anything professional dancer and entertainer Volodymyr Zelenskyy offers up to them.  

A day following the departure of Russian troops from Bucha, its mayor announced that the city was “liberated”.  This, one would have thought, would have been the time for him to give the world an anguished account of horrific war crimes and cold-blooded murder of innocent citizens by the Russian army.  He didn’t.  He just said, with an apparent attitude of relief, that the city was back in Ukrainian hands once more.  That would have been March 31.  The Russians left on March 30.  

So on April 1 and 2, the city was overtaken by the infamous “Azov” Battalion.  For those who have not followed the intricacy of Ukrainian history and politics, the Azovs are Nazis.  This is not just a pejorative term - it is a factual one.  There is audio recorded of one of these paid thugs asking if he could just shoot anyone not wearing a “blue armband” - apparently the talisman needed to escape Azov butchery.  The answer, in case you haven’t already figured it out, was, “sure”.  

So on April 3, now four days after the departure of the Russian soldiers, we have unvetted photos of atrocities.  No question about it, these photos are graphic, they are shocking and the crimes are obvious.  What is less obvious is the chain of custody of the photos, and any real proof of who committed these crimes, or even where they took place.  

With their usual glitzy bravado, sometimes welcome in a morass of TV mush, “The Five” on Fox News called for war crimes tribunals for these outrageous violations by Putin, parroting the senile Joe Biden.  Not by Zelenskyy or by whoever is in command of the Azov Battalion.  It is just simply assumed that Putin’s army, which could have flattened Ukraine in one night had they wished, went around town tying people up and executing them for no apparent reason on their hurried way out of town.  Even the normally legally astute Judge Jeanine Pirro joined in the feeding frenzy.  We’ll never hear a retraction, I would bet, now that she has committed herself.  But no court of law that she would have presided over, presumably, would have accepted these photos, handed over to the press by the Ukrainian authorities, as “proof” of anything. 

So on the say-so of these aforementioned authorities, we are supposed to do as President* Biden is hissing at us to do - set up an official international “war crimes” tribunal and perp-walk Putin to his own execution.  No need for a defense, of course.  No one would listen to it in any case.  The Judge has already ruled, it seems.  She’s just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.  

One of the first things an investigator would look for, and a prosecutor would press, would be motive.  In war a lot of things can happen.  It can sometimes happen that the wrong person is shot, or that the wrong building is hit by fire.  But dozens of bodies, hands carefully tied behind their backs and shot, one at a time?  Does this sound like an army withdrawing or retreating?  There is at least room for questioning here, for doubt.  What would the motive have been?  Does anyone know the identity of the victims of these “executions”?  What would have been the reason behind their murders?  

On the other hand, the Azovs are actually known for just this kind of thing.  They are, of course, self-described Nazis.  

Following WWII, there were stories of Stalin’s troops abusing vanquished populations in their counter-attack.  Stalin has been dead since 1953 - in other words, for about sixty years.  His war crimes dated back to about twenty years prior to that, so almost seventy years ago now.  That he had brought a bad reputation to Russia in the wake of the German attack on Russia is undeniable.  There were a lot of witnesses and survivors to tell their stories.  But that doesn’t mean everyone does this, even every Russian president.  

There are a number of reasons why Putin decided to invade Ukraine.  None of them really has anything to do with wishing Ukrainians dead.  In fact, his war has been, if anything, far less damaging to the nation and its people than one would expect from a war.  While we can all disapprove of invasion, and we can all feel sympathy for the people of that nation, all wars cause death.  

It is appropriate here to remind “The Five” of Ukraine’s history - recent history - of the Zelenskyy government’s abuse of its own citizens.  For years this government has been shelling people in Donetsk and Luhansk.  While Putin’s army is excoriated for attacking hospitals, schools and urban residential areas, they are not wasting their ammunition and time on innocent people.  They are going after the Ukrainian army (remember - those heroes we are all breathlessly adoring?), which is hiding among the civilian population.  Schools and hospitals are used for arms depots.  They are full of weapons and ammunition.  In other words, the boy wonder Zelenskyy is using his own people as human shields.  Not only might it deter Putin’s soldiers from attacking them, just in case they did it would be a wonderful photo op and propaganda event as well.  It would provide Zelenskyy with a lot of dividends.  I remember when Saddam Hussein did this we didn’t approve.  It is, of course, a war crime.  But strangely, Judge Jeanine is not calling for a tribunal to convict Zelenskyy.  Weird, that.  His partisans also kidnapped and killed the mayor of Kreminna and killed him in cold blood.  No benefit of trial there, no charges.    

But that is not all that Zelenskyy’s government has done.  He has ordered Ukrainian citizens to shoot Russian soldiers and “take no prisoners”.  His military spokesman has warned that any Russian soldiers “captured” would be castrated.  I ask again - before or after they are shot without a hearing by random citizens?  Because mutilating either living or dead people is a war crime as well.  In fact, Zelenskyy has been a disaster for the people of Ukraine.  They never sought to join NATO - which was a trigger for Putin to take action.  They never knew or approved of the United States using their country as a killing field of bioweapons labs either.  

And for decades Ukraine has been well-known as a clearing house for human and drug trafficking and money laundering.  If you need an example, just look at Burisma, which we are learning only now was not only involved in paying off Hunter Biden for political favors and American tax dollars through his dad, but even in the development and operation of the labs for weapons of biological warfare.  You can spell that “W-A-R C-R-I-M-E-S”.  

Put that in your teleprompters at Fox.  Judge Jeanine might want to expand the war crimes tribunals to cover the CIA’s and CDC’s bio-weapons labs while she’s at it.  

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