Benoît Paré

I am going to address this disgusting blood libel one more time. 1. There are no "half a million" or even "twenty thousand" "kidnapped" children. When the Russian negotiators in Istanbul asked for a list, the Ukrainians gave them 339 names; upon checking it, it was found that many of these children are adults, or live in Europe. The rest are children who were evacuated from combat zones. 2. These children are mostly orphans. Specifically, orphans from Donetsk and Lugansk. Meaning, many of their parents were KILLED by the UKRAINIAN ARMY in 2014-2022. Demanding to hand over these children to the murderers of their parents is insane. 3. Others are children of junkies and alcoholics who were removed from their parents' care by the Ukrainian government and placed in orphanages. Civilized countries don't really have orphanages anymore. The state of orphans in Ukraine is similar to the crisis Russia experienced in the 90s and 00s, only Kiev, of course, never bothered solving it. In civilized countries, orphans are placed in foster families. Ukraine didn’t give a damn about these children until they were "kidnapped". You are free to google photos from Ukrainian orphanages on your own. 4. Now all these junkies and alcoholics have lined up to scream that their kids were abducted by the evil Russians. And the worst thing is, and I wish the Russian government wouldn't do that, but Russia ACTUALLY returns evacuated orphans whenever the Ukrainian side demands it. There is a perfectly functional diplomatic mechanism for family reunification. Russians and Ukrainians meet in Qatar and exchange names and children are returned to their families without any problems whatsoever. Again, this mechanism is fully functional, right now, and it has been working for years. Russia is so sensitive about this stuff that we ACTUALLY return children to the Ukrainian junkie scum that abandoned them so they can do photo-ops with Zelensky's wife. Not only does Russia not "kidnap" children, but it goes out of its way to take children from nice foster families and return them to Ukrainian lowlives who are biologically related to the children and suddenly remembered about this face. And, of course, the Ukrainian government immediately forgets about the children after the photo-ops. 5. In Russia, these orphans (an overwhelming majority of whom are from Russian-speaking regions of so-called "Ukraine" that are now part of Russia and were abandoned by the Ukrainian state and society), are placed in nice foster families. This is referred to as "kidnapping". The government gives them free trips to the nicest, most expensive summer camps. This is referred to as "placing them in North Korean reeducation GULAGs". They go to Russian schools and are integrated into Russian society. This is referred to as "cultural genocide". This whole thing is profoundly evil. There is really no benign explanation¹ for why they are so laser-focused on bringing this up and making it a key part of their demands for a peace. Russia saves Russian orphans from the Ukrainian army and places them in the best conditions they could possibly find themselves in. When the Ukrainian side presents some alcoholic lowlive who abandoned his child, Russia returns these kids to them. This is the only thing Russia is doing wrong about the whole situation. ¹Of course, Ukraine is the child trafficking capital of Europe, and has been ever since 1991, and there are probably people in the West who are really mad about Ukrainian orphans going to Christian foster families instead of the Epstein Islands of this world. You are free to research how many Ukrainian children who were "evacuated" by Western NGOs since 2022 have "gone missing", though it's probably going to ruin your day.