Author Traces Putin's Cruelty As a 'Butcher' Back to Conflict in Syria
All it took was a little graffiti
Anyone who is at all surprised by the cruelty or savagery of Vladimir Putin's terrible incursion into sovereign and democratic Ukraine ought only look back to the Russian leader’s involvement in the still-ongoing, bloody conflict in Syria.
That's according to the prominent American author, TV host and political commentator, SE Cupp.
“A few kids in Dara’a sprayed anti-Assad graffiti on a high school wall. 15 kids were arrested, beaten, tortured, had their fingernails ripped out,” Cupp tweeted, referring to the ancient city in southwestern Syria, located just north of the border with Jordan.
Parents, naturally, were outraged, and they demanded to get their children back. They were told by Assad’s regime, “Forget your children. If you want children, make more children. If you don't know how, bring us your women and we will make them for you,” Cupp recalled.
Protests and riots in Dara’a spread to neighboring towns and cities. This was enough to make Assad start killing his own people, Cupp explained. Over the next 11 years he used barrel bombs, chemical weapons, air strikes, to target civilians.
Schools, hospitals, homes, were all targets. In 2014, Putin joined in. There’s no way to know for sure, but aid groups estimate that the pair of leaders, conservatively, have killed 500,000 Syrians — 50,000 of them children, Cupp continued.
Millions are displaced. There are more Syrians living outside of Syria than inside. Millions are living in camps with no infrastructure or basic needs, she wrote.
“A generation of children haven’t seen a classroom or a hospital. Entire towns are gone. Assad and Putin’s genocide on the Syrian people is ONGOING. Still happening today,” Cupp said. “Graffiti on a high school wall. That’s all it took for Assad and Putin to murder half a million people. So if you’re shocked that Putin can do what he’s doing in Ukraine, which did nothing to Russia, just remember they don’t need a reason. They are butchers.”
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