Two images caught my attention this week. The first was a photo of the Russian soldier who’s being tried for war crimes in Ukraine after allegedly shooting a 62-year-old civilian in the back. The soldier is twenty-one, but he looks like a kid, a boy who should be fishing with his friends on a quiet lake, not sent to a foreign country to commit atrocities.
The second image was the arraignment of the suspect in the mass shooting in Buffalo. He’s eighteen years old. He’s probably never voted in an election, yet he wrote a manifesto expressing his determination to kill as many Black people as he could.
Two countries half a world apart. Two young men who were barely more than children when they voluntarily committed unspeakable acts of violence. What forces are creating these monsters, and how can we reverse this deadly trend?
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