Original Sin

Reported this morning in the Wall Street Journal there is this:

Hungry and undisciplined Russian troops shooting unarmed villagers, breaking into supermarkets and shops, and raiding homes in search of food and valuables as their own supply lines have failed.

Don't take my word for it.  You can find security camera footage of Soviet troops looting grocery stores on the web. 

 

This is interesting to me on several levels.

First, the vaunted Russian military is nothing more than an undisciplined conscript mob.  This fact is not lost on the professional western military.  Of course they do have the unqualified admiration and support of Fox and Russian State Media personality Tucker Carlson.

Second, half of my friends (give or take) are Trump supporters.  With only two three solitary exceptions - yes, only two three - of the remainder, not a single one of those souls has spoken a word of condemnation of the actions of Putin's army of murderous thugs and the obscene invasion of a sovereign nation.  

Crickets.  

Perhaps they too believe that Putin's actions are, in Trump's own words, genius.  Their silence on the subject speaks volumes.  And it is troubling. 

And their tacit acceptance of this vulgar assault is their Original Sin.