The British newspaper The Independent writes that one day, perhaps sooner than many suppose, Russia will have to renounce its neo-tsarist ambitions and join the "community of civilized nations", as it put it.
In her editorial, she said that the more Moscow fails on the battlefield and is forced to retreat, the more it will focus on destroying civilian infrastructure, taking hostages, kidnapping people, and continuing to rape and kill anyone whose bad luck strikes them in the hands of Russian forces.
She pointed out that the Russian "special military operation" in Ukraine had long ago lost any semblance of the struggle for the liberation of a brotherly people from "Nazi" rule, as Moscow said before, and deteriorated into a situation in which war crimes are the rule, and conventional military clashes are more like the exceptions. Isolated from the general trotting to fight.
She added that the tactics of Russian President Vladimir Putin will fail, provided that the Ukrainian people know that the West is on their side.
And the newspaper added that it may seem a remote possibility that Putin or any of his generals and officials will face retribution, and believes that their fate will be like Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, who did not expect them to end up on trial.
So are the Khmer Rouge and the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, and the Japanese and Nazi leaders after 1945.
She concluded that when Russia joins the "community of civilized countries" it will have to exclude war criminals to face justice, just as happened with Serbia, Rwanda, Cambodia and Germany, and they will realize their crimes.