Okay, they will level your city stupid. Stupidity isn’t bravery.
And you rooted for the Mexicans at the Alamo, too, right?
“Okay, they will level your city stupid. Stupidity isn’t bravery.”
They will level it regardless. It’s a Russian thing.
Stupid how?
Putin’s orders have already levelled the city. Already 80% of a bigger city than Miami is rubble. It’s beyond repair. In the last 48 hours they’ve sevt more. Chechen hardnuts into some ‘burbs, lobbed thermobarics into other high density civilian areas.
Russia claims it’s escorted a few thousand civilians to safety but those who left have disappeared off the radar. They had their phones taken off them.
If Russia was genuinely helping those folks wouldn’t it have made sense to let them all keep their phones, so they could relay their gratitude via social media?
Mariupol as a city no longer exists. The civilians cannot get out. Azov is killing civilians. So are Russian ground forces.
So I don’t think the civilians really care who’s killing them on the ground, or why... at least they’d have SOME chance of survival by hiding if there are some friendlies out there trying to keep them safe.
But against even more aerial bombardment and thermobarics - they don’t stand a chance. That’s where their heads are at. Burn or starve.
If Russia had an atom of concern for the Russians it professes to be defending it would allow those civilians to get out of Mariupol. Whether that’s north or west or east. It wouldn’t be asking Kiev to surrender the city first.
In three hour’s time we shall see if Putin’s ultimatum lives up to his innuendo. He has basically said anyone still holding a weapon by 5am then everyone with them will be treated as a combatant.
Question: does that include all women, children, the infirm, babies even, if the people with weapons are family and friends simply trying to protect them?
This isn’t a hypothetical question. Inside Russia, Putin’s security forces are treating anyone who even holds up a blank piece of card as if they’re insurrectionist.
Okay, they will level your city stupid. Stupidity isn’t bravery.
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Exactly. Most don’t realize ( Ukraine government does) that city is a Neo-Nazi nest. That is why the city is in the process of being flattened. Vlad does what he says he will do- eradicate all Azov and Neo Nazi cities.
Give in to the bully thats the smart move.
If you were wondering what "better to die on one's feet than live as a slave on your knees," this is what it looks like sometimes.
Okay, they will level your city stupid. Stupidity isn’t bravery.
Like Putin would recognize Ukrainian sovereignty in any event. "Appeasement is feeding a crocodile in the hopes that he will eat you last."- Winston Churchill
The Ukrainians have decided they'd rather die on their feet than on their knees. I respect them for that.
If they give up their city, is it really their city anymore?
Can’t wait to have you on our side when there are foreign
nationals on our soil.