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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;

If they hadn't been invading other people's land, they would not be writhing in pain in the fields.

The tragedy is that the people defending their land had to writhe in pain. The invaders deserved it.

I’m disgusted with the pro-Putin troll faction around here. The people who for months brayed that Russia was merely wargaming and any suggestion that would invade was neocon fearmongering, who effortlessly pivoted once the invasion commenced to claiming Russia is entirely justified in invading.

All that said, this is entirely the fault of Putin and his faction. They aren’t bleeding. I don’t believe 18 year old Russian conscripts deserve it. The greatest tragedy of war is that the ones who start it seldom suffer the consequences of their actions. Someone else’s teenage sons do.

I’m glad Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight by all appearances, but when the Twitterati put videos of Russian soldiers being killed, and hordes of brain dead leftists who don’t know up from down comment cheerfully about “kill the invaders” like they’re watching a Star Wars movie , and MSM outlets run photos of dead Russian soldiers laying in the snow, it turns my stomach. Those kids didn’t wake up one day and say, hey let’s invade Ukraine! Their leadership put a gun to their head and herded them in.

The good qualities of soldiers — duty, patriotism and loyalty, bravery — are being squandered to a terrible end and I hope Putin feels every ounce of the weight of that when he passes.