From the original article, "It was a fitting death for someone dedicated to glorifying genocide."

That is not just "reporting the facts."

I don't know where the writer is from. If he is from Ukraine, or has close ties to Ukraine and not to Russia, then I totally understand his point of view.

I have Ukrainian and Russian friends, and friends who live or lived in both countries, but no one really close. So I don't feel this war so viscerally.

I don't need to be reminded that Russia is not a land of unicorns and rainbows. I also don't need to be reminded that there are open Nazis in the Ukraine military and in positions of political power in Ukraine. This is now even reported openly in the NYT.

I totally agree that this war was and is unnecessary. The death and destruction are horrific. I live in Vienna, Austria and have friends and significant business in neighboring countries to Ukraine. We have a lot of Ukrainian refugees here (a lot less than other countries, to be sure).

This war did not start with Russia in 2014. It started with a violent coup, backed by those same Ukrainian Nazis, and also supported and driven by the US. The only "good guys" here are the average Ukrainians who are suffering.

All that being said, and getting back to the last sentence of your comment and the reason I'm responding. All the death and destruction in Ukraine still does not match what the US has caused in the mid-East since 2003. It is not even close.

And that gets to the crux of the matter. What do Ukraine and the mid-East wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria all have in common? There was a government in power that the US didn't like. The US either destabilized and backed a coup/civil war, or just invaded directly. The result in all four countries is massive death and destruction. None of the countries is on the whole doing better now than before, although I'm sure there can be found people in each country who are doing better.

I have rethought my comment. And I stand to it.