At the beginning of this atrocity being forced upon Ukraine, Daniel Johnson - former infantry in Iraq - made a pretty prescient prediction. He believed that Russia's war on Ukraine would be the most documented in history. He wrote this about 24 hours after the invasion began: I have heard other military people saying the same thing, more and more lately. We would not have known as much as we do without this technology. I, like many others, have a bad feeling that what we are seeing out of Bucha is just the tip of the iceberg.

Dachau Concentration Camp opened in 1933. It would be nearly 13 years until U.S. military forces liberated Dachau, in 1945, The world didn't know about these death camps but they would find out, too late for millions of souls. The world learned slowly what Hitler had done, few people had televisions and news was mostly print publications or radio. WW2 and other wars of the twentieth century were simply not shown like this. I have no illusions that the atrocities will be quite similar to what happened in Europe such a relatively short time ago. We are witnessing the brutality of war in real-time, and this is unlike anything in history. No government can stop this information from being shared. I know that Putin is trying but that psychotic fever can't last forever.

History is happening minute by minute because of the technology in the military and the technology from journalists (citizen & professional). What is happening in Ukraine feels different because it is different than other wars, It's actually being reported in real time. We see the trauma, undiluted and uncensored. It's is horrific. Maybe we will see an end to this sooner rather than later; one can hope.

We are seeing evidence of war crimes. We are seeing crimes against humanity in real-time. We are seeing genocide. It is being documented. While there will be investigations, the amount of evidence is all there.

The sooner history shows how unkind it can be to the likes of Putin and his allies, the better the world can be.

Prayers for Ukraine

Raine