Make Them Watch.....

After dinner last night Dave and I settled in and looked for something interesting to watch on the tube. The "regular" offerings did not seem very intriguing.....and then I remembered a documentary that was recognized at The Academy Awards this year. We found "Twenty Days in Mariupol" on Amazon Prime.

This was not an easy watch.....about 90 minutes following a team of reporters/videographers as they documented what was happening in one of the first Ukrainian cities overrun by Putin's Russian troops. The team tried to move around the city day by day as the bombs and tanks and troops got closer and closer.....hitting civilians, hospitals, schools, playgrounds. Dead bodies lay in the streets.... citizens who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, teenagers playing soccer in a field. Hospitals were out of pain killers, antibiotics and other medicines. Doctors trying to deal with the worst possible injuries as bombs fell nearby. A maternity hospital was wiped out. Bodies wrapped in plastic sheets and dumped into mass graves. Thousands dead in one city.

This was  very difficult to watch but it was an important reminder of what Putin started and what continues to go on in Ukraine.

As the documentary ended we both said "Every GOP government asshole who is holding up aid to Ukraine should be forced to watch this." Other world  crises have moved to center stage....and we, as Americans, should care about and be involved in providing aid wherever we can. 

Watch this documentary....and think about Putin's representatives who are on film saying "This was fake news. This was staged...these were actors." Sound familiar????