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I loved reading my grandmother's Agatha Christie short stories when I was young, but I don't remember Miss Marple. White armbands designating Russian collaborators is coming from the Ukrainian forces, not the Russians. I posted a Telegram video a few days ago from a commander of the Ukrainian National Police telling his troops to shoot any men wearing white armbands. I agree the Russian interpretation of white armbands is simply an indication of being a non-combatant. But on the Ukrainian side, all fighting age men are expected to take up arms, so men wearing white armbands are considered collaborators by Ukrainian troops. There haven't been any reports on the identities of the several hundred bodies found in a trench in front of the church in Bucha. The best information available is that they're all men and were Ukrainian militants (both regular and irregular) killed in the fighting, and moved there by Russian forces for sanitation. You can be absolutely certain if there were any women, children, or elderly in that trench, we would have heard about it in western media by now. Dragging destroyed tracked vehicles across asphalt destroys that asphalt. There is no indication of that in any of the photos I've looked at closely. The volume of debris is way too large to indicate it was all hauled there to hinder Ukrainian troop advances potentially pursuing the retreating Russian forces, and you can just drive around it on the grass anyway so it would be entirely ineffective as a strategy. A lot of the pictures show pieces of destroyed cars and tracked vehicles laying around them on the ground, just like you'd expect if the vehicle was hitting by a shoulder launched missile. And the photos are from western outlets. I should have been more careful in my last paragraph. If I had an edit button, I'd edit it. My point was that absolutely no one thought there was anything wrong with killing a half dozen ethnic Russians a day for over eight years. No one thought there was any issue with the Ukrainians preparing to invade that area, obviously an action that would involve much higher civilian casualties than any the conflict had seen to date - it would have been tens of thousands of ethnic Russian civilians killed, including many, many children. But Russia steps in to defend those people against a pending (and long ongoing) genocide? Why exactly is that? Why did those people not deserve some help? Where was all the moral outrage during all of those long years? There was none. Exactly no one cared. As to why I think the drums are beating for WWIII - I'll write up my thoughts on it in the next few days, and test it out here for validity. I do get a lot of valuable feedback from others here that helps me to (maybe) have a more balanced outlook. But it's a lot of little things as to why I think a wider war is coming, and might not be so interesting to others if I try and lay it out. And time will tell anyway - probably not much time, as it's hard to imagine the conflict in Ukraine just drags out at a low level like Iraq or Afghanistan without substantial alteration in the situation. Because now that white people are involved, the west just won't stand for it like they would in North Africa or Ethiopia. You see how much attention the American intervention in Ethiopia's civil war is getting, don't you?