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DeezerShoove » 06 Sep 2024, 8:55 am » wrote: ↑

06 Sep 2024, 8:55 am

The hilarity was what I find distressful.

Between overly used "glorious!" and now hilarious, I just thought I'd insert my rubles.
I know it's a board where we poke at stuff a lot. It just hit me this morning about all the reasons people get to carry physical and mental scars for life.

Poor uselessness of it all from the Ukies side vs ^^^all that commie stuff^^^ you said.   

I had an old friend that was in the Korean police action. He was frozen pretty badly in that ****.
He told me about the **** up buddies he had that died there and subsequently afterward due to conditions, injuries.
Hie fingers and toes were slowly rotting off due to the frostbite **** up his circulatory system.
Eventually lost a leg. More fingers. The other leg. Finally died.

He was pissed about the uselessness of it all. Might've been better off if "the cause" was clearer.
When you're lying in bed, yet again, waiting to heal up enough to go home, it's you and your thoughts.
He was a pretty good guy if you could see past his trauma.

Don't know why I thought of him.

Certainly war is pretty useless to the people fighting it. But there ARE (rarely) just wars. Russia has been involved in a number of them. 

Typically, the people fighting from death ground - in this case, that would be the Ukrainians, on cursory inspection - are fighting a just war, and the invaders are practicing rapine. But in the case of the Special Operations in Ukraine, it is actually the RUSSIANS who are fighting from death ground to repel an invasion by hostile forces. The Ukrainian people's democracy was overthrown by the lead aggressor in NATO, and their formerly peaceful homeland was turned into a proxy state to attack Russia's interests and sovereignty and physical security. 

Their actions are noble and glorious; the west's endless failures are hilarious. <This is opinion. ^That is fact.

And just to remind you, Putin spent MONTHS piled up on Ukraine's border, trying extremely hard to bring Ukraine back to the table, NOTWITHSTANDING they had shown themselves utterly untrustworthy in the matter of their word regarding the Minsk Accords. The Russian mobilization was intended to push Ukraine to diplomacy. But Ukraine is a captured state whose captors view it as a bic lighter: to be used up and discarded. It is serving the end to which it was put - but it is NOT having the intended effect. Russia has not been diminished, as was intended. But boy oh boy, Germany sure has. So has the U.S., at least in terms of credibility. The conflict has set a fire under the BRICS compact. They can't get to their door to do business for all the nations lined up and begging to dedollarize.