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    “How much longer are they going to torture us? When will this all end?”

    And

    “All these sirens, some loudspeakers saying stay off the streets.”

    Y’all don’t like it very much when minor impacts from your way come home, do you. Y’all would’ve been fine if you’d just left Ukraine alone.

    Also, your stress contrasts so aptly with the blithe guy who put an extra tank into his back stay because

    “I have to go to Mariupol [in occupied Ukraine] tomorrow.”

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    “All the atrocities commited were ok in my book but now the whole situation is affecting ME. I declare this went too far!”.

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    “What’s going on? I don’t know”

    Well that’s some lack of reflection that is actually impressive.

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      I bet they can’t say the truth about Putin invading Ukraine and how badly it’s going or they’ll get sent to prison for rehabilitation, or defenestrated

      So they cry for social media because it’s finally happening to them and they don’t want to risk speaking out

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          He has spoken of the USSR and historical Russia, I think he has been hoping to try and take over all of the surrounding land to restore the ‘empire’ and have better protection with the mountainous regions.

          I don’t think the Ukrainian government would have made any difference no matter who they are.

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            It would have made a difference. If the Russian-puppet leaders had stayed in place then there would have been no fight and just controlled by Russia the easy way.

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          You think that’s one of multiple reasons, or the sole reason?

          Russia still spouts the “they’re Nazis” nonsense in all kinds of directions. Do you think those are correct too?

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    Boohoo you don’t have gas. You are the same people that thought it’s A-OK when hospitals were hit by cruise missiles that had not strayed from target, schools were hit, monuments, and when the pride and joy of the Russian Federation was to bomb heating plants in Ukraine in the middle of winter.

    I’d say, you reap what you sow, but I don’t wish upon anyone the destruction that Russia has wrought upon Ukraine. May you be in fuel queues until the day you die, though.

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    I think I was most impressed by the guy who jerry rigged an extra gas tank in the back seat of his fucking car.

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    From the first vid:

    “Strawberries are 1000 rubles a kilo”

    So let’s see 1000 rubles is about 13 dollars, and a kilogram is 2.2 pounds . So a little over six dollars a pound. That’s about what strawberries are locally. Good to know that “the country is imploding” prices are about the same around the world.

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      The median income in Russia is 4 times less than the USA. So to earn that strawberry money would take 4 times longer.

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    Strawberries at a thousand rubles reminds me of this American psychologist who was embedded with the Allied force that captured Aachen as the first major city of Germany in late 1944.

    When he interviewed the local Germans they reported that the past few years had been tough on them. Nobody had had any real coffee since forever, and no butter, either.

    War really is hell, I guess.

    Edit: corrected a minor inaccuracy, and for anyone interested, it was Saul K. Padover, who wrote this book about his experience: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000903013