Short Take: Thoughts on Iryna Zarutska's Murder and Trump's Guard Deployments

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by Rod D. Martin
September 10, 2025

Further thoughts on Iryna's murder, and Trump's National Guard deployments.

With regard to Iryna's killing, one friend of mine said that she was angry that the media has refused to cover the story, and that if the races of killer and victim had been reversed, it's all we'd hear about. Another friend said he disagreed.

I wrote:

I think what ______ is saying is captured in the meme I'm posting with this comment. Obviously lots of people — black and white — get killed without any attention at all, and sometimes that's especially unjust. But her point consists in the information in the meme:

Number of articles in the New York Times:

George Floyd - 5,897
Trayvon Martin - 1,190
Iryna Zarutska - 0

There is very clearly, shall we say, a lack of interest in her story. And aside from the fact that she was white, that is most likely because it shows the utter failure of the police, the (Soros…