I cannot watch those Ukrainian videos and I find them distasteful to say the least. But they’re hardly comparable to this. Those are literally videos of men in

I cannot watch those Ukrainian videos and I find them distasteful to say the least. But they’re hardly comparable to this. Those are literally videos of men in uniform with guns and battle tanks who are out there to kill the Ukrainians. There’s a huge difference between that and the killing of let’s say a serial killer who is completely under the power of the state and is incapable of harming anyone at that point. The Ukrainian equivalent would be if the military was bringing captured soldiers to Kyiv and then publicly executing them to cheering crowds. And no one is doing that as far as I’m aware. And even that would be more defensible because Ukraine is ar war which is literally a state of decivilization, where the citizens of Ukraine have spent a year and a half watching neighbors being blown up and spent half their time in subway stations so they don’t get killed in a missile attack. That’s a level of PTSD (although it isn’t even “post” but continuous and ongoing trauma) that could bring the blood thirst out in any human. And I don’t watch these videos so I don’t know, but as far as I’m aware they very rarely show any human body actually dying. It’s usually tanks being blown out or at worst I’m guessing tiny dots of humans just falling so even the gore is not visible. Finally, there is a difference between a video and watching a killing in person. A closer equivalent would be Americans gleefully watching bombs falling on Baghdad which was horrendous, but different from when the Abu Ghraib pictures were released which were widely condemned and drew outrage among most, even though they didn’t even involve killing AFAIR but they involved mistreatment of captives who were under custody and not an active threat to anybody.