Tor, many critics of the Russian War on Ukrainians are on the left of the political spectrum.

The Russian band, ----- Riot, should be commended widely for its social conscience despite the fascist dictatorship that rules Russia. In a police kleptocracy, anyone challenging the dictator places themselves in peril.

How to counter the state media's parroting of Putin's lunacy? Tough to do when even the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kiril, p a former KGB agent, condemns Ukrainians as immoral deviants.

A billion newsletters airdropped on Russia's metropolitan capitals might change the minds of a mere one million Russians. Perhaps a hundred million copies of ----- Riot's protest music might be more effective at informing the everyday Russians of Putin's murderous & kleptocratic ways, and perhaps it will motivate more Russians to revolt against Putinism and to seek a government more aligned with peaceful participatory democracy and international goodwill.

Perhaps? The world hopes.

Correcting a part of #19, the reference to "Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale" should have begun by identifying Dr. Timothy Snyder as Yale's "Richard C. Levin Professor of History". In editing that sentence, Dr. Snyder's namer was inadvertently omitted.