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Russia has pulled out of Kyiv and many other towns and cities. In their wake, unimaginable atrocities have been exposed to the world. Twitter feeds are awash with reels of ravaged women, tortured men, burnt and executed victims, lying in streets, yards, and buried in mass graves. A word of warning, once seen, these images cannot be unseen. [If you are a survivor of prior trauma, please take care in viewing the pictures online and in the links below as they certainly will be triggering.] That said, we must see these horrors to understand what is truly happening and consider them in our future political decisions. WWIII looms large. After the Nazi camps and their ethnic cleansing, the world said, “Never again,” yet 75 years later, we see the same barbarism. Russia has assaulted the people of Ukraine repeatedly:  Baturyn 1708 ,  Slovo House 1932 ,  Holodomor 1933 , and  Lviv 1941 , today  Bucha . I had the honor to participate in an international Zoom gatherin...