American journalist: the dogs of war are waiting to be released again
Nolan Peterson publishes excerpts from his diary two years ago about the war in Donbas, while he was on assignment in Mariupol, in the conservative Daily Signal. "Back then, two years ago, I thought the war was over. Today I realize how wrong I was."
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“Out there, outside the city streets, far from the bad music in the bars and the embraces of young couples, the scars of the last two days of fighting still smolder. After the end of the fighting today, I went out onto the battlefield to see what war really is.
The bodies of soldiers littered the fields, like plaster sculptures of bodies at Pompeii, frozen in convulsions.
These were people who died terribly. Not easy, from a shot to the head or heart. Some bodies were torn apart by shell explosions. Some bodies are missing limbs. And some had their entrails scattered on the ground around them. Others burned to death, trapped inside steel coffins.
Quite a few died along the way; they desperately clung to life halfway out of their destroyed vehicles: or lay on the ground in a fetal position. They all died today. And tonight would be a good time to start forgetting why they died.
And yet, as I write these words, many more scared and tired young men are waiting in the trenches, in the tanks ready to once again release the dogs of war.
And while Mariupol is celebrating, and I am writing these words, tired soldiers are sitting in trenches and tanks, ready to unleash the dogs of war again,” says the journalist’s diary.
The Daily Signal published pages from Nolan Peterson's diary to show how fragile and unreliable this hope for peace is.
American Journalist : The Dogs of War Are Waiting to Be Released Again