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Editor, News-Register:
When I reflect on Russia's slaughter in the Ukraine, I ask myself why is Russia doing this? And why is the so-called West sanctimonious about this latest war?
The Russian's can certainly make a case for their homeland defense. After all, Russia was invaded by Napoleon in the 19th century, attacked by Germany (and Austria-Hungary) in the First World War, and attacked by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. (The Nazis killed about 30 million people in Russia in WWII.)
You would think this history would make the Russian people to fervently embrace peace.
But no way.
The Russian's instead were extremely ruthless. They slaughtered over 350,000 of captured German POWs; established the Gulag where as many as 1.5 million died in incarceration; slaughtered tens of thousands in Afghanistan; crushed Chechnya and Georgia; and now are destroying Ukraine; to list some of their post WWII horrific inhumanity.
But how about the West, led by the United States and their NATO allies, what does their post WWII period wars look like?
There is the atomic bomb that vaporized 150,000 people by just two bombs (The United States lost about 450,000 in WWII); Iraq, and our phony WMD claim, where about 300,000 Iraqi civilians were killed; the 20-year war in Afghanistan that resulted in about 200,000 Afghan's deaths; Vietnam where over 3 million people were killed; and Yemen where we were complicit in the almost 400,000 people killed, many children, by sale of our weapons to the UAE.
The only conclusion I can come to is that almost all of humankind is guilty of killing or allowing their fellow human beings to be killed. Despite nonsensical claims there are no "rules of war" -- dead is dead. Period.
Those not guilty of these grave crimes of war must continue to work diligently to stop the monsters among us.
Bill Bryant
St. Clairsville