Yeah, but is there something rigged-up about it? Aside from the entire unsafe thing and him eating while he’s looming.

What am I looking at here?

Not only that, but:

Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors by several U.S. congressmen, including Mendel Rivers (D–SC), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

What’s in Wikipedia doesn’t match my memory; what I thought had happened was that Thompson did more than “try to halt.” He landed his helicopter between US troops and a group of obviously harmless villagers and told his men to shoot the Americans if they tried to continue murdering the villagers.

He and the other soldiers who stopped the massacre and reported what had happened were viewed by most Americans as traitors at the time, and for quite a while after.

Absolutely top notch. All the songs I wanted to comment that you should add are already in it. 😀

Honestly, I get it. I’m in the US, which means my government does terrible things the world over, and I’d probably have a similar reaction if someone blew out the windows of my home with a drone strike. And I have a lot more ability to influence my government than ordinary Russian citizens do.

I think the Ukrainians are 100% within their rights to fight the war that they didn’t start, and that includes blowing up targets in Moscow. But, from the POV of the ordinary people in Moscow just living, I get it.