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deletedFeb 25
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Clarify.

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I'm so sorry Mike. I had NO idea what I was seeing. Truly shocking. And I cannot believe how strong that young woman is.

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I love survivors.

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I fear her potential death happened off camera. I hope they were done with her. The blue face would suggest that. BUT what do I know. Terrible. And you are correct...we have to be able to see this stuff. I can't unsee her strength I'll tell you that.

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The question is how will you use what you can't unsee to help Ukrainians escape their dictatorship.

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deletedFeb 24Liked by Mike Hampton
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I won't imagine more than I know. They wanted her to know they're the 'boss', they wanted pleasure from hurting her, and hopefully (and I say this with optimistic irony) they needed her alive as a lesson to others.

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deletedFeb 24
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Imagining the worst is not truth. I will not make up facts. That video is not a snuff movie.

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I appreciate evidence, always. Please supply me the link so that I can see she was identified.

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PS: I'm unable to see a physical link between the two stories. No face, clothing, torture match.

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Feb 24Liked by Mike Hampton

Truly horrific torture. The videos of Israeli snipers killing mothers and children also. This is pure evil.

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It's like people (mostly men) just need the excuse to be who they truly are.

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Feb 24Liked by Mike Hampton

I’m not sure how you post as much as you do. You dig deep into dark holes. Be careful not to get buried yourself. This is soul scarring material.

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I've seen a lot, from people getting their heads slowly cut off, women whipped, a pig slowly burned alive etc. I wanted to know what us humans are, not what the news tells me. I felt it necessary. But I know our 'soul' so I don't search anymore but the occasional war death crosses my path. For those who don;t know the cruelty of war, they should watch so that they're against it, and not cheering or apathetic an ocean away. People vote without thought to consequence.

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Feb 24Liked by Mike Hampton

At this point there is no practical difference between the cruel and stupid men who drowned Europe in blood during 20C and the cruel and stupid men and women who have destroyed Ukraine and are putting Europe on a war footing to fight Russia. The cant about values and democracy, the flags and ceremonies are all a hideous pantomime designed to hide what has never changed : the lust for power and dominion.

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To repeatedly deny the nature of humans, especially men, and even more so the will of the few to turn desire into reality, is to be foolish and unprepared.

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Txs Mike!

Your posts are vital to get the info and make up our mind about what's going on.

As you're saying I saw various videos at the beginning of the war. About 2014 and after, that violence against russian speaking ukrainians. I saw Odessa massacre videos. A nice documentary on Donbass by a french woman director.

But I also saw at the beggining of the war the tortures to poor russian soldiers catch by Azov's nazi and crucified and burned alive. Young ukrainian guys and girls shot in the head and thrown in a common grave by the same Azov's. There is a site that collects horrors videos from mainly telegram (that I don't use).

And I saw a precise and detailed research study published on a western Universities researchers site on what really happened in Maidan with tens of videos, documents, testimonies of who were there.

But our problem is: who in the West spend time to research those info, who want to spend spare time to get this pretty often sad or terrible information, who really want his anger to grow so much, watching, hearing, his country's brothers/sisters blind and indifferent to the nazi route they're following once again, 100 years after? And this time much worst than it was, txs to today technology.

As I wrote, we don't discuss, debate each other our History, our legacies, in Europe anymore.

DO NOT VOTE in June for EU Elections!! PROTEST instead!!

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I watched Odessa vids too. Bad times breeding worse times.

The 'Donbass' doccie was from 2016, by Anne-Laure Bonnet. Excellent, eye-opening for its time, but she got attacked and people don't know it exists. I tried to find her at one stage, hoping to upload it, but left it for later whilst other topics got in the way.

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This version has also subs with more languages.

https://youtu.be/b8j0tJsKltg

Don't understand why this instead is subjected to age verification...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOy0eRcJxo

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Feb 26·edited Feb 26Author

Thanks! That helps readers who dig into the comment section.

I have the French/English link, as well as Rumble.

I ripped it after watching, in case it got censored totally, but haven't uploaded as I want approval from the director.

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i have never seen such a strong human.

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Mar 1Liked by Mike Hampton

The time for peace is now!

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Sadly, the opportunity for peace has been rebuffed by the West three times.

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So is war the only option?

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I'm anti-war, but realism is that it will continue until Putin has made, at minimum, a buffer zone to the four annexed oblasts and Belgorod. Zelensky would have to fall, as he issued a decree against dealing with Putin, and he keeps stating unrealistic demands with intent to sabotage peace.

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Well, the Russians have killed an entire generation of Ukrainian young men, 550,000 + so hopefully the guys responsible for this horrific act, got tortured to death by their Russian captors.

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Good point. The belligerent are the usually the soldiers, and soldiers die on the front line.

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