No word from Ukraine...I thought they'd be at their destination by now and discover if she's still alive, but I have no feel for the size of the region or the additional difficulties they'll encounter. It feels like it's been a week since the call last night.UPDATE
At midnight our time (about 10 minutes ago) I was privileged to get to listen in on a brief communication from our 2 guys in Ukraine.
They have run into several small groups of Russian soldiers who abandoned their vehicles and were headed back North. On each encounter, they got the drop on and disarmed the men. They shared water and conversation with one group of soldiers who were without food or water. The soldiers were very young, very green, and had no awareness of the global response to the Russian incursion. When our guys told the soldiers the news about FIFA suspending Russia and about UEFA stripping St. Petersburg of the Champions League final, they insisted our guys must be falling for Nazi propaganda.
They told our guys that they were very surprised when they were ordered to move into Ukraine. They were told that Ukraine had been captured by Nazis, and it was up to them to liberate the Ukrainians.
I don’t think our guys convinced them that the people shooting at them were the Ukrainians they thought they were rescuing.
Even though the soldiers were released (without their weapons) and told to continue north, it sounds like they thought our guys were “the Nazis.” (but maybe nice Nazis?)
Our guy's goal is to reach the grandmother (of one of these 2 men) and extract her to a neighboring country. Traveling with her might require using a bigger vehicle which they say could dramatically increase the likelihood of encountering hostiles, but they are optimistic of their success.
Our guys were sickened by the bomb and shell damage they’ve seen in towns and say they believe it will take decades to rebuild. (The soldiers said the Ukrainian Nazis were the ones blowing everything up!)
The Ukrainians they’ve run into have not been military and are “running around with weapons they have no idea how to safely use.” They are more concerned about being shot or blown up by a hidden “well intentioned” Ukrainian than by the more obvious, noisy, and grouped Russians.
If not for the grandmother, our guys say they would focus on making the Russian advancement more painful. We pray they get the grandmother to safety and make it directly home.
It wasn’t my call, so I kept my mouth shut even though I had a dozen questions.
Seven hours or so before my morning Joe. I just roasted a batch of Columbia Don Enrique Reserve to perfection, so the sooner I get to sleep, the sooner I can wake up and savor a cup of it.Good morning Doc, it is 6 am here, the sun is coming up, the java is hot and the wife is still sleeping with the dog to keep her back warm.
Rebs had tobacco. Yanks had coffee.I would think that coffee should be considered humanitarian aid and should be freely exchanged during ceasefire negotiations or during lulls in fighting.
"Cowboy Coffee"Best coffee I ever had was under a bridge back in 1976. A hobo invited me to have a cup from his campfire cooked coffee in an old 5 lb. Folgers can...fresh water from the river...yes the rivers were sometimes still clean back then....
Are you still unable to think? I think you may live to close to the cesspool of Chicago.
you want to start with your regional bigotry - go elsewhere azzwipe - not needed here - especially with some paranoid idiot like you >>> if you think Putin is your savior from some BS crap - I hope the hell he personally puts his pistol to your head when he starts executing people - it can only help people like you .....
Just as this is dividing us here, it can be just as dividing at home. Has been here.
I don’t support Putin, but I think Biden, the US has been stirring the pot and cornering Putin into his course of action.
Call me a Putin supporter if you want, I don’t think the US is totally innocent.
Too much propaganda from both sides to determine where the real line lies.
But Putin should get the Nobel Peace Prize, He ended Covid.
Papa maybe you being too harsh on sending the lllini warrior off to the mental asylum. Maybe all lllini needs is to be loved and cared for by dropping him off at the nearest reservation. I sure once there and back puffing away on the peace pipe his mind might just recover and clear naturally.Check yourself into a mental hospital and have a labottomy done. Your delusional and your perceptions of the world and my views are fictional.
Just saw your response to my post. Cannot disagree with your post.it actually agrees with my US stirring the pot statement. We agree who the real criminals are.Zelensky is a leader that rallies the troops and represents Ukraine well, in war. But in peacetime negotiations with the Russians, he was a total failure and bears a huge amount of responsibility for this war. Another who bears responsibility is Obama for his 2014 coup which got this whole thing started. Further criminals are Clinton and Biden for raping Ukraine, taking bribes, and implying a close relationship with the West. All this emboldened Zelensky, so back to the top of the paragraph.
The real losers are the Ukrainian people who did nothing wrong yet will suffer the consequences of a war nobody wanted. The Russians are the most experienced army in the world at urban warfare, starting with Berlin three generations ago. If the Ukrainians use apartment houses to fight from, those apartment houses will be leveled. The Russian army will cut a wide path into Ukrainian cities so that apartment house style fighting will have a minimum effect. As terrible as it is to say, almost all the brave Ukrainian defenders will die in the end as will a great number of non-combatants. And in the end, Ukraine will not join NATO or be used as a Cuban-type missile launcher against Russia. The whole war could have been avoided if Zelensky had faced reality.
supposedly our beloved SOS Biden appointee has green-lited Poland to transfer their MIGS to Ukraine - and the US will immediately fill that Polish gap with US fighters
Few months old but still importantLots of evidence of Ukraine and USA criminal corruption.
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