Sunday, March 6, 2022

When Putin Brings Down Russia, Will it Make a Sound?

The story of this war is nothing without identifying Putin as the perpetrator of this mess, which has revealed that the storied Russian Army is a mess kitted out with the poor equipment that is the legacy of corruption and the failure of a supply chain that came from yes men telling Putin this exploit of sovereign Ukraine would take 48 hours or so, and not weeks. And it is a mess because conscripts weren't told their actual mission at all, they might have been told it was a drill. Their people back home aren't informed of anything. They have motorized crematoria to disappear the dead, when they bother to collect them.

So when the ceasefire to create a humanitarian corridor is violated, who is that on? Vlad, the destructor. The one who will rupture Russia's economy to prove he could take Ukraine, and is being foiled by a guy who plays the piano with his penis

I'm just saying, for all the obvious reasons, Putin would have looked more like a boss without trying to do this thing and actually destroying the ruble and losing the credit capability of all Russian people. But now he looks like a monster who indiscriminately kills women and children and old people and basically anyone who gets in the way of his fulfilling an exceptionally bad history lesson

The folks who deplored Trudeau over his treatment of the convoy can sit and think about what a sentence of 15 years in jail would be like for the folks who understand that Russia is engaged in war, and would very much prefer no one mention it. Or think about how Russia is totalitarian as hell. 

To me, this is the obvious villain. Putin initiated a war, and now feels stressed, He did this to his country.


2 comments:

Kwark said...

Yet, apparently, the Faux News/GOP line is that the situation in Ukraine is Biden's fault because he's weak on Russia, unlike Mr. tough guy Trump. My college educated yet clearly dense as a box of rocks neighbor gave me this important information this morning. As the ICBM's rain down it will be Biden and the Democrat's fault for not building the imaginary Star Wars defense Saint Ronald wanted to build in the 80's - gotta own the Dems 'till you're vaporized.

Vixen Strangely said...

I hate to be this nerd, but Space Force is actually working (I think still working?) on an updated initiative on missile interception authorized in 2019 which is also kind of dumb because, and I cannot stress this enough, what comes up goes down unless it is in orbit and even then, yep it could lose orbit. It's like the jackaloons who shoot guns to celebrate New Year's or whatever and are shocked!!! when the bullet aimed towards heaven does not go there but lands sadly, in an innocent bystander. Sure, you intercepted a nuclear missile, but then it does not actually go away, right? So it just lands--elsewhere?

The development of nuclear weapons was an initiation for homo sapiens to eschew the arboreal tribalism of our forebears for a more logical game theory exercise and we have kind of not done very well at this thing at all so far. Hit the nuke with a big rock and it goes away is very monkeybrains.

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