@shallow-blue said
I won't even dignify your "Gray Zone" with an answer, but...
In the USA, if an individual soldier rapes and murders, he is sentenced to prison.
In your beloved Mother Russia, rape and murder are official army tactics, and the many soldiers who commit those crimes are up for promotion.
What is your source of information?
I keep hearing that propaganda, yet nobody wants to give their source.
Did you believe Iraq was throwing babies out of incubators too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda
The truth is that the empire had to choose between living with Russia forever because they have a nuclear arsenal or getting rid of the biggest obstacle to world domination, Russia. That requires WW3. WW3 could lead to nuclear war and they know it. It is a risk they are willing to take.
NATO expanded to Russia's border because the USA is bent on world domination. My government wants WW3 before the economy implodes from mismanagement. Creating inflation is the only way to prop it up. They used the pandemic as an excuse last time so they didn't have to admit they screwed up the economy. To keep avoid admitting it they need another scapegoat to do more quantitative easing and create more inflation. WW3 will do it and they can attempt to dominate the world at the same time.
An obvious problem they are overlooking is China. They will know they are next. They will side with Russia just like Kissinger warned against. Russia will become China's proxy war against the USA. Many NATO nations will leave NATO despite agreeing to defend any NATO nation attacked. The NATO alliance will be tested in a serious way. Getting involved would be economic suicide for some of them, especially with energy so scarce in Europe right now.
You are supporting WW3 because of mere rumors of systematic raping. Do they eat babies too or is that just Germans? Why don't you make up something like they throw babies out of incubators and eat them later and then rape their mother? Make it sound really horrible. Have them shoot granny too. Awe heck, have them rape granny before they shoot her. Then behead her.