Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
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attempting to retake ground, which is typical of any kind of war fight, but they were continuing to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, kill Ukrainian citizens. Those are all war crimes.
attempting to retake ground, which is typical of any kind of war fight, but they were continuing to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, kill Ukrainian citizens. Those are all war crimes.
So I would even go to the point, Tim, where we were complicit and maybe even accessory to war crimes over those couple of days where we just kind of unplugged the intelligence servers within Kyiv and in the front lines, not just for the tactical fight, but for the defense of Ukraine infrastructure and citizens.
So I would even go to the point, Tim, where we were complicit and maybe even accessory to war crimes over those couple of days where we just kind of unplugged the intelligence servers within Kyiv and in the front lines, not just for the tactical fight, but for the defense of Ukraine infrastructure and citizens.
So I would even go to the point, Tim, where we were complicit and maybe even accessory to war crimes over those couple of days where we just kind of unplugged the intelligence servers within Kyiv and in the front lines, not just for the tactical fight, but for the defense of Ukraine infrastructure and citizens.
Which they've been doing since the very beginning, by the way.
Which they've been doing since the very beginning, by the way.
Which they've been doing since the very beginning, by the way.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
And when you think about the Russian way of war, where they do area fire as opposed to precision fire, where they really don't do the targeting process the way most modern militaries do, where you're attempting to destroy the enemy's military and their enemy's capability, they were really focused primarily, as they have been from the start of the war, on causing pain to Ukrainian citizens and their government.
And when you think about the Russian way of war, where they do area fire as opposed to precision fire, where they really don't do the targeting process the way most modern militaries do, where you're attempting to destroy the enemy's military and their enemy's capability, they were really focused primarily, as they have been from the start of the war, on causing pain to Ukrainian citizens and their government.
And when you think about the Russian way of war, where they do area fire as opposed to precision fire, where they really don't do the targeting process the way most modern militaries do, where you're attempting to destroy the enemy's military and their enemy's capability, they were really focused primarily, as they have been from the start of the war, on causing pain to Ukrainian citizens and their government.
And that's the part that just kind of continuously. I mean, the Hague has said Putin is a war criminal and all the people who are executing his his operations, the special military operations are war criminals. And if that's the fact, if we're giving them an advantage, then we we do become complicit in their war crimes and maybe even accessories to to the act.
And that's the part that just kind of continuously. I mean, the Hague has said Putin is a war criminal and all the people who are executing his his operations, the special military operations are war criminals. And if that's the fact, if we're giving them an advantage, then we we do become complicit in their war crimes and maybe even accessories to to the act.
And that's the part that just kind of continuously. I mean, the Hague has said Putin is a war criminal and all the people who are executing his his operations, the special military operations are war criminals. And if that's the fact, if we're giving them an advantage, then we we do become complicit in their war crimes and maybe even accessories to to the act.
Yeah, well, I left the military in 2013. And at the time, Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014. But prior to that, on a daily basis, when I'd go into the office, I'd get something called a black book, which showed intelligence capabilities of the U.S. force and what we were collecting on and how we were collecting it.
Yeah, well, I left the military in 2013. And at the time, Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014. But prior to that, on a daily basis, when I'd go into the office, I'd get something called a black book, which showed intelligence capabilities of the U.S. force and what we were collecting on and how we were collecting it.
Yeah, well, I left the military in 2013. And at the time, Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014. But prior to that, on a daily basis, when I'd go into the office, I'd get something called a black book, which showed intelligence capabilities of the U.S. force and what we were collecting on and how we were collecting it.