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erronis

(18,302 posts)
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 06:42 PM Friday

Another Capitulation To Vlad -- Digby

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/14/another-capitulation-to-vlad/

And another atrocity



Greg Sargent reports that Marco Rubio, the alleged diplomat, has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth during peace talks as his state department helps the Russians evade responsibility for their war crimes:

The State Department has quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell The New Republic.

The nixed award could make it harder to continue tracking down the kidnapped Ukrainian kids and complicate efforts to seek accountability for the abductions, says one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the ongoing operation.

One of Ukraine’s central demands for any peace deal is the return of Ukrainian children who have allegedly been the victims of a Russian program of coerced adoption. Russia has claimed this program is a humanitarian one that benevolently adopts Ukrainian kids and makes them citizens. But under President Biden, the State Department strongly condemned it as the “forcible transfer and deportation of Ukraine’s children to camps promoting indoctrination in Russia.”

Indeed, as The New York Times reported, Russia has not just transferred children from Ukrainian orphanages to Russian camps; it has also taken kids whose relatives want them back. The Times noted that the abductees number in the “thousands,” and concluded: “This mass transfer of children is a potential war crime.”

There is much more at the link about the horror of these mass abductions and the response to it here in the US and around the world. Until recently, even under Rubio, this was considered to be a top issue in any peace deal. Rubio appears to have decided it doesn’t matter.

He has a place reserved in the VIP section of hell.
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Another Capitulation To Vlad -- Digby (Original Post) erronis Friday OP
Covering up child abduction? Wow, I really didn't think Rubio would stoop that low muriel_volestrangler Friday #1
There is no stoop too low... erronis Friday #2

muriel_volestrangler

(103,252 posts)
1. Covering up child abduction? Wow, I really didn't think Rubio would stoop that low
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:10 PM
Friday

I mean, Gaetz would have, of course; and Trump, probably - he's got form himself. But Rubio has not been accused of any sexual crimes, so far.

erronis

(18,302 posts)
2. There is no stoop too low...
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:22 PM
Friday

"Lil" Rubio has already demeaned himself and his family that crawling in the mud to kiss the the pig's ass is just another item on his daily calendar.

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