Sorry Genghis Vlad, THAT Won’t Work Either. Updated With A Comment Response

As we hit day 6 of Putin’s war crimes-ala-palooza, we are actually starting to get some glimpses into why his war is going so badly. And we’re also starting to get some preliminary data in on something that I wrote about previously as being a huge potential problem for Putin, and that isn’t positive for him either.

For starters, it turns out that Putin is every bit as fucking stupid and delusional as Traitor Tot. The Ukraine is an obsession for Putin. For him, it is the crown jewel of the Soviet Union, and he is going to be the leader that brings it back into the fold. And it doesn’t matter how he has to do it.

But here’s the thing. While Putin may be delusional and obsessive, he isn’t brain dead like Trump. As reporters are starting to collate information from different sources, one thing is becoming clear. Even before Putin pulled the trigger, he already knew that an invasion of Ukraine would be incredibly unpopular with his own country. As a result, in the runup to the invasion, he not only lied to his people, he even lied to his own fucking troops!

There is actual anecdotal evidence being collected from actual Russian troops, speaking to family members and others, that they were misled. Putin put 150,000 Russian troops along the Russia-Ukraine border, and another 40,000 along the Belarus-Ukraine border, under the guise of military exercises. And it turns out that that is exactly what Putin had his military leaders telling the troops. They zoomed around in their tanks, busting through sheds and barns, firing their weapons, and having a grand old time. And when the time came for Putin to drop the hammer, the military issued orders with coordinates and movement schedules, Don’t ask questions, just get in the fucking tanks and drive. The ground units actually had no idea where they were heading. Little wonder there are reports of Russian soldiers laying down their arms when the realized that they were actually attacking Ukraine in a live fire exercise. And little wonder that more than 6,000 Russian citizens have been arrested for protesting Putin’s folly. And the protests are growing, not dissipating.

But now we come to the part I wrote about previously, actively wondering what would happen, and advance warning, it’s ugly. I wrote a few days ago about how, with the war already being so unpopular in Russia itself, how much worse the Russian civilian population protests would be when Russian body bags started coming to towns and cities all over Russia. But it turns out that Vlad the Imp has a secret plan.

Update

I have had two comments taking exception with Ukrainians taking pictures of dead Russian soldiers and putting them on Russian social media. The implication seemed to be that the Ukrainians were rubbing the Russian civilian populations noses in the carnage. I don’t see it that way. After all, Ukrainians have made no move to slaughter Russian troops where they stand when their transports of tanks run out of gas. They could do that in a heartbeat. I prefer to think that the Ukrainians realize that the Russian army is about to abandon their dead, and want to try to give Russian families closure if nothing else.

Commander of NATO, has been keeping his ear to the ground with some of his former friends and sources. And while his information isn’t definitive, his information is that the Russian army has already suffered somewhere between 3,000-4,000 troops deaths in combat. In 5 fucking days! He went on to point out that we were in Afghanistan for 20 years, and suffered less than 2,500 fatalities. Russia will almost double that in one week.

So, as I wrote earlier, what happens to public sentiment when 4,000 flag draped caskets start showing up in cities, towns, and villages all over Russia? Turns out we may never know, because here’s Putin’s master plan. At least some of them won’t be coming back home!

The United States military has a long and distinguished creed, Leave no fallen man behind. The families deserve the solace of burying a loved one who made the ultimate sacrifice, With full military honors. It turns out that Putin has no such compunction. There is fairly widespread reporting that the Russian military is leaving Russian soldier corpses where they fell, even in areas that they control! It has reached the point that Ukrainians with social media savvy are going out into the fields, taking pictures of the soldiers faces, and posting them on Russian social media with the title Is this your son? 

As it turns out, Putin isn’t only arrogant and delusional, he’s a total chickenshit. How long does he think he can get away with this shit? How long does he think that military families will sit around with no contact with their loved one, and yet no definitive information from their government. I swear, if Putin keeps this shit up, it will turn out worse for him than if he had just put his big boy pants on and shipped the poor guys back home.

Obviously Putin has totally lost his shit. It’s one thing to underestimate the fighting spirit of an opponent, but another completely to underestimate the desire of a family to get their loved one back for a dignified burial. This just keeps getting worse.