Apparently, the Heritage Foundation wants you to think that everything is hunky-dory in Ukraine. They are doing things like this:
The Heritage Foundation could have shown other scenes in Ukraine, of course. At the hands of the invader, Ukrainians have endured mass murder, mass rape, mass deportation, etc.
Heritage might have shown something like this:
Heritage might have shown something like this:
Heritage might even have shown pictures from Bucha, where Russian forces committed some of their worst atrocities. If you can stomach it, even for a second, go here.
Is there normal, non-atrocious life in Ukraine at some times and in some places? Yes, of course. I thought this was an excellent explanation, though it should not have been necessary:
The Heritage Foundation and others are perversely determined to pit Ukrainians against Hawaiians. Here’s a longtime Republican official:
National Review’s Dominic Pino has ably answered the Heritage Foundation: “More Demagoguery against Ukraine Aid.” I would also recommend a piece by Andrew E. Busch, of Claremont McKenna College: “The Feeble Case against Ukrainian Aid.”
So too would I recommend a piece by Peter Rough and Luke Coffey of the Hudson Institute: “Why a Ukrainian Victory Matters to Americans.”
The BBC has recorded some reality in Ukraine: “Seven people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed when a Russian missile struck a theatre in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday morning.” A typical day. “Fifteen children were among 144 people wounded.”
For that report, go here.
And here is the Associated Press, on another day: “Seven people — including a 23-day-old baby girl — were killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region.”
For the AP report, go here.
It is important to know names and faces — at least some of them. Otherwise, victims are mere statistics. Here is Sophia:
Here is Volodia:
Don’t like seeing these things? Tough.
This is something to take account of:
This is something to take account of, too: “Kyiv Reports At Least 500 Children Killed Since Russian Invasion.” (For that article, from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, go here.)
Ukrainians are still fighting — still fighting and dying. Trying to repel the invader, trying to save their country. A name, a face:
Another name, another face:
If possible, don’t get numb to the evil that Russian forces are perpetrating against Ukrainians, and don’t let the fog-makers fog up reality.