“Send tanks, jets and men! We’re winning!!!”
The German army held drives begging for coats during the Winter of 1941-42. They were supposed to have defeated Russia prior to winter.
Those trench candles are much more effective when the cardboard is saturated with wax.
Drivel. Like Russians have never lived in the cold, but the ever resourceful Ukes know how to make fire in a ration can? Pure comedy. Let’s keep the powerful secret of making a fire in a ration can away from the Russians! Lol
Clownworld.
Meanwhile Pooty Poot has died and been resurrected 100 times....
Is this satire?
I was stationed in Germany, (1966-67). We were issued the dreaded TA50-901A gear. On February 14, 1967, it was (-)17F, the gear helped, but you were still cold as hell on a field maneuver east of Nuremberg. The coldest I’ve ever been in my life.
Back to the gear being dreaded. During a Battalion Inspection, the “gear” had to be displayed in a designated Army fashion. Every piece issued had its place. When you received your Separation Papers, the gear was the very first thing you turned in (you can’t go out on maneuvers without the gear).
My presumption about what I am told of the the war in Ukraine is that it’s mostly propaganda, speculation or misdirection. I know more about the far side of the Moon than I know about what’s happening there.
I see the death and ruin, the suffering of the Ukrainians. The soulless aggression of the Russian state and military. NATO’s stupidity and perfidy. Ukraine’s rep as a corrupt money laundering hub. The West’s rallying to their aid while letting them bleed out and tempting a larger war.
But, what do I really know?
The same sources informing me on the war also tell me I’m a racist, that Trump is a Russian stooge, that Obama is a saint, that our electoral process is free and fair, that the border is secure and Climate Apocalypse is nigh unless we all become subjects of an authoritarian global order. They tell me babies aren’t human and abortion is without consequence but that it’s for the greater good, that I can menstruate and there are countless genders. That up is down and Evil is Virtuous Good.
In general, we perceive what we already believe.
I perceive little about the war and believe less, so I’ll stick to backgammon and bird watching.
Harris/Newsome 2024!
Years ago I flew into Moscow on assignment - early February.
Landed about 5:30am their time.
Leaving Sheremetyevo International Airport, our group drove past a soccer field.
All lit up.
Players on the field.
Sub freezing weather.
Shorts and T shirts.
5:30am
I don’t think they care about the cold like we do.
Poor Russians don’t know how to fight in cold weather.
Who writes this drivel?
Right. Russians have no experience with cold weather. Sigh.
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👩🪖📄🇺🇦In Odessa, men change into women's clothes in order to go grocery shopping and not accidentally go "cannon fodder" to war after receiving a summons
How Russia is going to train, equip, and deploy several hundred thousand more soldiers when they can't is beyond me.