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Every minute innocent people are dying in Ukraine. What does Medium do to stop it?
Some people know East European history and politics better than others. I am one of the former.
Before the war started, I warned that the only way of avoiding it was by telling Putin that if he attacked Ukraine, America would respond in kind and that we meant it. Editors at Medium did not place that article in the Medium Daily Digest. Very few people read it. I am not happy that I was right.
After the war started, I wrote that Putin and his cronies should be declared war criminals. Their only fate is to stand in front of judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Knowing that Putin and his assistants will be outcasts forever, the Russian elite will act swiftly to remove Putin.
Some pundits split hairs, claiming that it might be hard to indict Putin because of the legal constraints regarding who is the signatory to which agreement. Launching an unprovoked war is a crime. Nazis were sentenced in Nuremberg for invading peaceful nations.
Today, March 10, 2022, in the Medium Daily Digest, in the top position, there is a column by Douglas Rushkoff rambling about the moral dilemmas of people who are happy that today bombs do not fall on them but on others. Before writing, Mr. Rushkoff devoted a few days for “reading the…
