Ukrainian troops uncover ancient Roman settlement while digging trenches in Kherson Oblast
https://sports.yahoo.com/ukrainian-troops-uncover-ancient-roman-211200158.html
@estherschindler
Reason number fiftyleven to hope for and work for a Ukranian victory. I can't imagine Russian soldiers caring the slightest bit if they found a valuable archaeological site in the Ukraine, even if they consider it to be Russia.
#Ukraine
@estherschindler
I take your points.
I was focusing on their actions as soldiers, not who they are at home, or on their true selves. It would take a lot to convince me that men who do or don't want to be there, are badly supported and maybe badly trained, and losing on the battlefield, could get any support to stop digging in order to protect archaeological sites on land they recently occupied, or to spend time digging up the pottery to send home. Gold or jewels would be a different story.
@estherschindler
Also, I should apologize for diverting a conversation about a cool find and remarkable efforts to preserve it into politics and military attitudes.
That was impulsive and I should have started a different thread instead.
@estherschindler @rthstew
if you look at the history of #RussianColonialism and their antics in WW2 under Stalin, there is absolutely no reasonable explanation for that hope, unfortunately.