Posted on 11/22/2022 7:54:00 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Winter has often proven an indispensable ally of Mother Russia.
The impending winter of 1812-13 forced Napoleon's withdrawal from Moscow, a retreat from which his Grande Armee never recovered.
The winter of 1941-42 sealed the ultimate fate of the invading armies of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
Vladimir Putin's new strategy in the war he launched on Ukraine in February is to conscript the coming winter of 2022-23 as an ally of his failing army.
For weeks, there have been reports of Russian air, missile and drone strikes on power plants in every major Ukrainian city.
The false report that a Russian-fired rocket had landed in Poland, killing two civilians, came on a day when 100 Russian bombs, rockets, missiles and drones hit "infrastructure" targets across Ukraine.
It was the heaviest Russian barrage to date in the nine-month war.
Putin's goal: As the Ukrainian army battles the Russian army in the Donbas and Kherson, the power grid upon which the Ukrainian nation and people depend is to be systematically attacked, shut down, destroyed.
Without electric power, there will be no light or heat in Ukrainian homes, hospitals, offices or schools. Without electricity, food cannot be preserved, stoves do not work, water cannot be pumped.
Without power, light and heat, Putin's expectation is that the Ukrainian people, who have patriotically supported their army, will, in the tens of thousands this winter, be at risk of freezing to death in the dark.
Winter, from mid-December to mid-March, is the coldest and darkest of the seasons, and it begins in four weeks.
On Friday, CNN reported that, after the latest wave of Russian strikes, 10 million Ukrainians, a fourth of the nation, were without power…
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“”Having lived in the country in the woods for 40 years, not having electricity can be dealt with.””
A cabin in the woods is made for and equipped to replace electric appliances and equipment so that one can live normally, when the lights go out in your apartment in the city, one doesn’t have all of that and can’t get it or install it in their homes and apartments and they have no plumbing.
Rural people in Ukraine probably have the wood stoves/cook stoves and lamps they need and the plumbing capabilities they need, even if it means just having the land for an outhouse and garbage disposal.
Even many houses (mine) are livable with no power.
My brother got down to his condo in Florida. Still no power or water since the hurricane for the entire building. He’s on the tenth floor. Luckily he knows somebody down there that he could rent a place from for awhile. He said the building rented a generator that is hooked up to the A/C so at least the units don’t get moldy.
Russia isn’t winning, despite the best efforts of some traitors.
The only one who wanted war was your beloved Putin and his allies in China.
Without electricity, food cannot be preserved,
Who writes this stuff? You may have some difficulty cooking it, but you sure won’t have any problem preserving it.
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