Given that Mariupol must be evacuated... question:

[allegorical oracle]

Why couldn't a contingency of UN and NATO officials have gathered in Mariupol -- preferably people with evacuation experience -- and literally coordinated and escorted those people out? Would Russians have stopped them? Sense they wouldn't have. We all need to step up and show we have the courage to stop Putin.

Confronting the Russian effort would fully display that the majority of people in this world will not tolerate wholesale murder. Cannot stand by and permit another holocaust. Otherwise, the Putins of this world will continue their maltreatment when and wherever they choose.

[Grasswire2]

1. they didn't respect the Red Cross.

I don't know what the answer is.

[allegorical oracle]

6. The Red Cross isn't NATO. Nuclear weapons, which no one wants to see used, don't belong only

to the Russians. I believe Putin would back down. He's a bluffing con artist like Trump.

[Ray Bruns]

2. The russians have been fighting in Mariupol since day one.

They aren't about to let anyone slip through their fingers.

[Lovie777]

3. "Would Russians have stopped them?".......

Yes with death.

[allegorical oracle]

5. They would slaughter both UN and NATO officials? If we would attack if one NATO country was

attacked, wouldn't Putin calculate that NATO would avenge the death of people who were merely on a humanitarian mission?

[Beastly Boy]

7. How would the UN and NATO officials get through the Mariupol blocade?

And, if by any miracle they would, how would they get back with thousands of Ukranians accompanying them? And what would they do if Russians slaughter every Ukrainian around them, but not them?

[allegorical oracle]

8. They would've had to plan it, which they haven't, yet. But if this was announced worldwide, it

would say to Putin that he must stop his invasion until Mariupol was evacuated. If Putin refused, it would cement the fact that he is an inhumane POS. And there's always the chance that Putin would allow it. As things stand now. these people are dead. To have no strategy makes the US look weak and ineffective -- not the greatest power in the world. And I'm a pacifist.

[taxi]

4. Surrender the area?