
Bodies strewn across the street. Victims lying in mass graves. Widespread hunger. Scenes of total destruction. To Grozny, Chechnya and Aleppo, Syria, we can now add Bucha, Ukraine.
As horrific as these crimes are, as shocking as the images emanating out of Bucha, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Irpin and elsewhere in the country, we cannot pretend to be surprised. This is what Vladimir Putin does. This is how he wages war.