It is now increasingly clear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a war of genocide. Mounted with genocidal intent, pursued with determined genocidal effort, the war is an assault not only on Ukrainians and Ukrainian nationhood, but the idea of Ukrainian-ness itself.
It has involved the wholesale killing and mass rape of Ukrainians. And, with increasing obviousness, the war has involved the mass theft of Ukrainian children by Russia—an act of forced population transfer that meets the definition of genocide according to the 1948 Genocide Convention.
[Indeed, and that definition exists precisely to disincentivize conflicts such as this one. Russia is making a mockery of the idea of an international order that requires any set of rules, even those Russia claims to recognize. It’s one reason — among many — that Russian cannot be allowed to profit by it. — Ed]
Join the conversation as a VIP Member