Well…ran across this little tidbit about the Ukrainian army that struck me as a little funny…not that this invasion and murder by Putin is funny at all….a couple of days ago, when I was reading the news, someone mentioned that the Ukrainian army now has more tanks than they did when the invasion started…if you’ve been following this atrocity, you’ll understand this comment that is supported by videos of Russian tank crews running out of fuel and abandoning their tanks to have them towed away by Ukrainian farmers….and you have to admit the picture of the Russian “supermen” running away from their tanks in droves while the Ukrainians sit and wait for it to happen and then adding the abandoned tanks to their own army is a little funny…and one of the jokes going around asks: what country is the biggest donor to the Ukrainian army? Of course the answer is Russia…whether it’s true or not is not the point…it’s just another pin pricking the bubble of Russian superiority and helps the morale of Ukrainians everywhere….humor will do that…..
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Let me get this straight….
Well…as I was reading about breathless reporting that the war in Ukraine has entered a new phase with the Russians “digging in” and making semi permanent placements of their tanks and artillery and this is a bad thing for the Ukrainian army…but, in my non military head, my take on it is a little different…sitting in a semi permanent location that can be found by any one of a number of drones and tells the Ukrainians where the Russians are seems to be a little bit on the stupid side…there are even videos already showing the tanks digging in so what is to keep the Ukrainians from shelling these emplacements with artillery or bombing them with drones or aircraft? After all, these aren’t hardened reinforced concrete structures designed to withstand bombs but they are just holes that they are parking the tanks in…and to keep them useful the turrets need to be exposed so they can aim their guns and the tops of the turrets have some of the thinnest armor on the tank, making them perfect targets for a hellfire missile or even a bomb toting drone…so, what is the thinking here? I sure as hell wouldn’t park my tanks where they couldn’t be used and could be attacked at will…and it would only take about 3 artillery shells to zero them in and kill the tanks…I wonder if they are digging in because they don’t have the fuel to drive the tanks anymore? Whatever the reason, this appears to be just another in a long line of blunders by the supposed “super” Russian army who have been fought to a standstill by the motivated Ukrainians….cripes, I would love to have my enemy just sit there while I attacked…I guess they can fill the holes with burned out tanks…geez…
Putin looks like he’s going to lose this war…
Well… I have been trying to avoid commenting on the point that Putin is going to lose in Ukraine as there are still untold war crimes he and his troops are committing there by targeting civilians and continuing to kill thousands of them…and it seems to be disrespectful to sit here on my soft warm couch and opine while Ukrainians are fighting for their lives…but, it does appear that with the latest round of support for the Ukrainians from across the globe, the tide is turning as they start concerted counterattacks on the Russian invaders. One of the things I find most stunning is that the Russian military, once thought to be one of the best in the world appears to be a hollowed out shell of itself…incapable of the things that normal armies do as a matter of course…I mean they are even using cell phones and commercial walkie talkies to try to talk to each other and even those aren’t working to coordinate attacks like a normal army does….and it is clear they can’t supply the army with even the basics of food and water as the videos of Russian soldiers stealing chickens and looting grocery stores show….and this just supports what I proposed in an earlier post, that 2 squadrons of A-10 attack jets could defeat this whole Russian invasion all by themselves…and if a NATO army was brought to bear on the Russian forces with all the force that entails, it would take a day or less for Russia to be defeated and driven from Ukraine….one last thing to remember is that Putin is now going to be isolated in Russia and will never be able to leave there again or he will be arrested and taken to the Hague for trial on the war crimes his troop have committed…this is a far cry from the superpower that he postured Russia to be…and maybe this will be his end…we can only hope…
Ukraine developments…
Well…just sitting here paying some bills and reading some news when I saw that Ukraine is claiming they destroyed 45 Russian helicopters yesterday…and with all of the other equipment they claim destroyed (which does need to be taken with a grain of salt given the nature of modern warfare), it does appear that the Ukrainians are making Putin pay for this war in ways that he never expected…and news this afternoon is that Poland has transferred all of their Russian built fighters to the US and they are being flown to Germany so we can take possession of them officially…and then they will be given to Ukraine to bolster their air force and give them the chance to knock down even more Russian aircraft and kill other vehicles they are using to commit their war crimes. I’m sure the deal was structured this way so that Poland won’t be threatened by the criminal Putin, and if he wants to threaten NATO for the transfer, he really does have to know if he draws a modern armed force into this fight, he will lose and lose badly…and will have no army left to protect himself from the Russian people. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dumber head of state other than the idiot trump…he has killed his economy and that will last generations and Europe is going to figure out how to do without his gas or oil so what does he have left? Nukes? That’s about it…I’ve never seen such a huge miscalculation in my lifetime…and it is going to rid the world of Putin once and for all…
Bill Barr, Mark Meadows and a few other things…
Well…lots of stuff going on today in the news but I’m still trying to get my brain working to be just a little lucid and talk about it…okay, Bill Barr…the rehab process goes on for the trump protector Bill Barr and it is just sickening to hear how he justified not doing anything to hold trump accountable for his crimes and how he tried so damn hard to discredit the Mueller report and yet the major news channels bring him on and let him lie his ass off like the hour he was on tv last night…do you need any more proof that the media is run by right wing apologists who have an agenda to wreck this country and allow trumpism to flourish? Now, with Mark Meadows, the idiot boy’s chief of staff who was neck deep in trying to overthrow the results of the 2020 election and who should be charged by now…it was reported yesterday that he has committed voting fraud in NC by registering to vote at an address that he has never owned, never lived at, and that the former and current owners have no clue why he would use the address….and the excuse the repubs in NC are using to justify not prosecuting him is that “no one has filed a complaint yet”…so now I guess it’s okay to commit crimes in NC just as long as no one complains? Let’s remember that every damn instance of voter fraud revealed in the past few years is all done by repubs as they wail about it….I wonder if the old saying “thou doth protest too loudly” applies here? Oh, and one last thing about Ukraine…a defense department official has said that the most effective weapon the Ukrainians have is the Javelin anti tank missile they got from the US…remember the Javelin? The missile that the idiot trump tried to use to extort Zelensky into fabricating dirt of Joe Biden? This shows just how dangerous that extortion was and how trump was working for Putin at the same time he was trying to cheat to an election win…I wish the media would ask some of the repubs about the Javelins and why none of them voted to convict trump in the senate for withholding them…it would be fun to watch the squirm….
The media needs to give Joe credit…
Well…if you were to listen to the media in this country, you would think that every move from every country against the Russian invasion of Ukraine just happened out of thin air with no work at all by anybody. I think there is such a thing as a lie by omission where they are purposely not reporting on all of the work the Joe Biden and his administration have done to herd these cats into the solid wall of opposition to Putin that we see reported every day…do you think that anyone else could have gotten everyone on the same page as Joe has done? Nope, it has been a masterful exercise in listening to and respecting our allies enough so they feel they have a real say in what is happening…could you imagine what would have happened if trump was still running the show? Not one of our allies would event take his phone calls let alone put the full force of their countries into getting weapons into Ukrainian hands and then signing on to the coordinated sanctions regime that is cratering the Russian economy and causing the ruble to be worth basically nothing…could you imagine idiot boy getting the Swiss to abandon their neutrality and levy their own sanctions against Russia? Or getting Sweden and Finland close to joining NATO? Never would have happened…and the idiot would have used this opportunity to bad mouth and try to destroy NATO not strengthen it as Joe has done. Joe’s work has been the most masterful job of diplomacy in my lifetime and will result in Putin losing everything…and not a damn day too soon…geez…
Ukraine’s big problems started with Manafort and trump…
Well….if you think that this invasion of Ukraine started just recently, you’re wrong….Putin’s meddling started long ago…even before he started screwing with our elections in 2016…and Paul Manafort and trump were essential in trying to give Ukraine to Putin but weren’t successful…or as successful as Putin wanted and that meant making Ukraine a client state that he could dictate to and basically run to his every whim and plunder as he wanted….and when trump tried to extort Zelensky into making up dirt on Biden, it was all part of the disrespect that trump telegraphed that was taught to him by Putin…and since he was such a sycophant, trump was more than happy to treat them like crap like they had no worth….not like the democracy they are. With trump showing Putin that the US didn’t care about Ukraine for 4 years, Putin thought that was still the policy of the US and the EU no matter who was the in charge since we didn’t to anything at all when he invaded the Crimea….so he assumed that Ukraine wasn’t important to anyone and he could do the same there…but, it is not 2014 and trump is not in charge…we now have a president who understands that making partnerships with our allies is extremely important and you can see that with the almost monolithic response to Putin’s thuggery that is due to Biden and his team’s work….now we just need to keep it up and make Putin pay for his decades of bullshit…geez…
Couldn’t have made a bigger mistake….
Well…with the moron Putin invading Ukraine and the world’s response to it, it looks like he couldn’t have made a bigger mistake….starting with Ukraine shooting down at least 7 Russian aircraft and the widespread protests across Russia against the invasion, there are even reports that there have been some Russian troops who have surrendered once they understood that their mission was to kill Ukrainians. Let’s add to those events the fact that the Russian stock exchange is down almost 45% since the invasion started and sanctions are coming fast and hard from all across the globe including cutting Russia off from the world banking system and the start of sanctions against Putin’s cronies that include seizing their offshore bank accounts where they have stashed all of the cash they’ve stolen from the Russian people…and almost every country has ceased allowing any Russian to get a visa to travel…so no business or pleasure travel until Putin gives up his thuggery…oh, and to Putin’s big reason for invading that was to stop Ukraine’s joining of NATO and it’s expansion? It appears that Sweden and Finland are meeting with NATO today to talk about membership that would ensure that if Putin tries any bullshit with them, section 5 would be triggered and that means that if they are attacked, it is an attack on everyone in NATO and there is no way Putin can deal with that. So, moron, nice job, Putin…this is going to go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes ever made and I think it will mean the downfall of Russia for good….and the Hague is waiting for you if you ever leave Russia again for the war crimes you are committing right now….very smart, asshole…
Not enough sanctions…
Well…with the bullshit that Putin is pulling in Ukraine…just announcing that he recognized two regions as being independent countries…after he spent the past 5 years attacking those provinces by sending Russian soldiers disguised as Ukrainians in to cause mayhem and give him an excuse to send in un-disguised troops that is essentially an invasion based on lies…and the rest of the world, other than China, is standing together to make Putin pay for his unlawful behavior. But, with the sanctions that have been announced by both the US and the EU along with the UK, I still don’t think there are enough of them and I don’t think they are targeting the right people…I do agree with going after the banks in Russia and all of the Duma who voted to give Putin permission to invade…but I also think the next round that should be announced today in my opinion, should go after all of the oligarchs who have been Putin’s cronies and have stolen all of the wealth of Russia over the past 20 years…and that should start by seizing every damn villa, super yacht, bank account, and everything else of these thieves and make sure they can’t travel anywhere in the world or they will be arrested as part of the plot against Ukraine. So, I’m waiting, Biden…and the EU…get after it and make the pain for Russia so great it’s economy crashes and then maybe the people of Russia will get tired of his crap…it’s happened before…geez…
So nice to have a “real” president…
Well…no matter how much the right attacks and tries to belittle him, isn’t it nice to have a real president acting like a real president should? That thought came to me over the past few days after the Ukraine crisis bubbles on and as Putin has been trying all his old bullshit tricks to justify invading a sovereign nation…could you imagine how screwed up the world would be if idiot boy was still in charge? Cripes, Russia would be taking over it’s third or fourth country by now and trump would be in Moscow praising him for being so “strong” while abandoning all of Europe. It seems that someone in this administration plays chess with the moves that Biden has been making…and his restoring of our vital alliances and his leadership has all of the rest of the world on exactly the same page…and if Russia does invade, it will be the end of Putin as a player on the world stage and it’s economy will take a hit that will take decades to repair if it ever can. All of this from a “senile” old man who can barely talk if you listen to fox news…and I sure hope you don’t….look, Biden has restored the US’s leadership in the world by our actions, not the bullshit that trump and his administration spewed every day…and with Biden making sure that our allies understand they are equals that we value, I see a sense of relief from them and a willingness to back our actions since they are based on facts and not the “gut feel” of a moron…and that gives me relief to know that a real president is at the controls….