This will come as no surprise to you. Vladimir Putin is not only a monster to the Ukrainian people he is a monster to his own. This clip is from the United Nations, where the Ukrainian Ambassador reads aloud in Russian and the translator explains in English how soldiers were conscripted for “training” and also told that the Ukrainian people would “welcome” them and it’s all a vicious lie.
This is incredible. It is also consistent with reports from all over Russia from parents who were told their sons were being conscripted for “training exercises,” then sent straight to Ukraine completely unprepared. Putin is a criminal to his own people as well. https://t.co/T7jpEcB7lx
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 28, 2022
This is the ugly reality of war. Putin, the maniac, sits alone in his large conference room. He sends out the young people to fight his battles and they die.
Respect, Hb pic.twitter.com/iNuInN2y7v
— HellBentVet ~ Warrior Bard (@HellBentVet) February 28, 2022
Imagine being in that young man’s position.
We’re five days in. The death toll for Ukraine is estimated at 4,300 and no word on Russian casualities. Putin doesn’t care anyhow. They’re just pawns in his demented chess game.
Actually, last I saw, the 4,300 was the estimated Russian casualties per the Ukrainian government. No idea what that or the current civilian count is now. But yeah, this COULD have worked if it’d been swift. But all reports I keep seeing say the same thing: logistical failures and the low number of troops sent in made that impossible. So now it’s the meat grinder for everybody.
No solider is worth a damn who has no cause worth dying for. The Ukrainians have one. The Russians do not. Game. Set. Match.
From what I have seen and read, the Ukrainians (ALL of them) are ready to fight for their country. The Russian soldiers were lied to and ill prepared.
We need to fight as hard to keep our Democracy as the Ukrainians are fighting to keep theirs!
We should send a couple of squadrons of A-10s to Ukraine…the war would be over in a few days!
With 50 years of experience writing and researching nuclear power, author/expert/activist Harvey Wasserman warns that even a “conventional” war in Ukraine could lead to Apocalyptic radiation releases, killing millions and costing trillions. Wasserman warns that even minor disruptions, sabotage or explosions could lead to Chernobyl-sized disasters at any one of the 15 reactors now operating in Ukraine. Radiation releases from Chernobyl itself, he says, killed more than a million humans worldwide,irradiated thousands of square miles of land and water, and cost trillions in destroyed property.
Wasserman began researching and writing on atomic power in 1973. Among very few journalists, he investigated the health impacts of Three Mile Island up close and personal. He co-authored KILLING OUR OWN: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation, with ensuing media appearances on TODAY, NIGHTLINE, PHIL DONAHUE, DEMOCRACY NOW, THOM HARTMANN, CHARLIE ROSE and numerous other major outlets.
In 1979 Wasserman helped organize the legendary No Nukes Concerts and rallies in Madison Square Garden and Battery Park City which drew more than a quarter-million viewers, leading to a platinum record album and a major Warner Brothers motion picture.
In 1994 he spoke (for Greenpeace) at Woodstock2. In 1996 he addressed public conferences in Kiev, Ukraine, and Kaliningrad, Russia, where he focussed on the horrifying health impacts of Chernobyl. His 2007 SOLARTOPIA provided a global vision of a totally green-powered Earth.
Wasserman warns that “even a limited non-nuclear military intrusion could cause catastrophic melt-downs at Ukraine’s 15 old, decayed, extremely vulnerable atomic reactors, resulting in mega-lethal radiation releases that could ultimately kill millions and cost trillions.”
“Chernobyl itself is vulnerable,” says Wasserman, “as its melted core is still not totally cold.
“The incredibly dangerous status of any nuke in any war zone has now come home to roost. Our species could very well not survive a worst-case nuke scenario that would come with the outbreak of a war in Ukraine. These reactors, like all others worldwide, must be shut immediately,” says Wasserman.
So true. Problem is an ignorant population that doesn’t know history, reads no pulitzer prize winning books, believes in comic book heroes & zombies, & turns to faux news & Facebook for ‘news’. Ur more likely to get them riled up if u confiscate their phones than their freedoms. Add in that somehow people’s feelings are paramount over critical thinking, so to say one is ‘offended’ is a pronouncement from God, no matter if stupidity & cultural propaganda are the origin of the ‘offense’. What a crock of horseshit for a species facing extinction by our own hand & each of us facing certain death. Our only hope is for every fucking one to grow the fuck up. I’d put my money on the cockroaches since they were the survivors at Hiroshima. The winners of Darwin’s sweepstakes.