Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like. On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight
~Coolio, Gangsta's Paradise
I first saw this yesterday. Picture of a dead Russian soldier next to a damaged armored vehicle.
And they just left him there. Likewise, in a ghoulish twist, apparently the Russian Army has mobile crematoriums so they don't have to ship dead bodies home. Coming as I do from a country that operates under the credo that we "Leave no man behind" this is anathema to me.
I'm going to be honest, I hope the Ukrainians bury that guy before the ghouls with the truck-mounted furnace find his ass. At least the Ukrainians would probably give him a proper burial, leaving his family with the option of having a grave to visit.
The Russian government is led by fucking Ghouls. I'm glad they're getting their army is getting its ass kicked. Failure on a major scale here will likely lead to regime change, and not least because these fools have made so many enemies, sanctions are piling up, and hell I heard that hotel guests in Russia are being asked to settle their bills early in case the (now official) SWIFT cutoff prevents people's credit cards from working.Meanwhile, more countries, including Germany, have agreed to supply the Ukrainians with armaments.
I don't think this is working out the way either the Russians or American "Conservatives" thought it was going to. And I'm going to be honest, I can't imagine having imperial ambitions when your army cannot even overcome the country it's already spent 8 years screwing with.
But of course, all Republicans see is the invasion, the indiscriminate targeting of civilians, of hospitals and infrastructure and shit.
Cruelty, death, war, naturally the death cult is all about that type of shit.
Madison Cawthorn wants to have a President that everybody is afraid of. Well, Maddie, how's that working out for Vladimir Putin right about now? If you want to live your life that way, it's a virtual guarantee that eventually you're going to meet somebody far worse than your own most inflated visions of your own toughness eventually.I'm not sure anybody saw President Zelenskiy as That Guy, but here we are.
There ain't much of a pension plan in the Dictator business, kid.
And Zelenskiy is showing the world what real, lead-from-the-front wartime leadership looks like. If Vladimir Putin, for all his amoral cruelty and deviousness and power, cannot defeat that, you sure as hell ain't gonna be That Guy.
Let me tell you something else. It doesn't matter how brave you are, how tough you are, how good of a shot you are or how well you can fight if you're in the military and you're not instilled with proper discipline, or properly led, or supplied, or trained.
As the Russians are finding out, to their misfortune, there are some fine lines between a proper Army and a mere mob of armed men and women.
Whole Russian units are breaking down, running out of fuel, and having to forage and steal just to survive because they were sent into the field not only without enough gas, but without anything to eat. I mean, seriously, who in the actual fuck organized this operation, that the Army of a major petrostate cannot get enough fuel from storage facilities (of which they have plenty, trust me) into the field?
I mean, what the hell?Apparently the Russian Army is a soup sandwich of legendary proportions.
Forget the Ukrainians, hell if I was in Putin's shoes I'd be ordering some major operations to clear out the deadwood in my officer corps and account for and punish theft and generally figure out what the fuck went wrong.
The truth is, in an even marginally competent military, this shouldn't be happening.Ka mate, ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Ka mate! ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā Ā, upane! ka upane! Ā, upane, ka upane, whiti te ra! ~Ka Mate, Maori Haka (main body) |
'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
This is the hairy man
Who caused the sun to shine again for me
Up the ladder, up the ladder!
Rise! The Sun shines.
~Ka Mate, English translation.
As is the defense of Ukraine.
Glory to the heroes!
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