Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country, Part II

[Dartz]

I rarely comment on this topic anywhere because, just to make it clear, I side with neither side, my primary concern, if any, is for the innocents on both sides who get caught in the middle.

That said, I have to wonder just how long both sides can keep this up. Germany and France are just going to wear each other down to the nub and I wonder what will be left when it's over.

Pretty much the same energy.

Russia went into Ukraine on a good old take their shit colonising war of  conquest. They deserve to be defeated.

There is a positive outcome from this, one which we all want on some level and one which requires unpleasant things to happen to ordinary russian conscripts and ordinary russian citizens. And some dreadfully unpleasant things happen to them. They are finding extreme ways to die. 

There was one video of a meat sausage trying to kick away from the fuel fire it was cooking in using legs that were no longer there.  Or the one pinned by his thrashing sausage-creature under the chassis of a burning truck. Or the crispy critter that crawled out of the drivers hatch of a tank that brewed up - after the fire died down. Or the two blown to pieces when the drone dropped in on them while one fellated the other. Or, perhaps, the one launched fucking orbital when the building he was standing on blew up. Or the stunned look of terminal surprise in a hundred faces when they turn around to see the FPV coming straight at them - as if they could never believe it would happen to them. Or that they've started cannibalising their dead. Or the wounded ones who know no-one's coming to rescue them, so beg for a mercy kill by slapping the side of their head. Or those who know what Russia does to captured Ukrainians and fear the same fate - so they save the last bullet for themselves.

And all of them watched by the cold eye of the drone high above.

And that, nowadays, most of them are volunteers. The old contraktniks who started the war are dead. The PMC's like Wagner are either dead, or signed contracts. The original mobiks are definitely dead - gone home crushed, cubed and palletised. The criminals dredged from the prisons are dead. When presented with an argument from the Communist Party (The original, Soviet Union, communist party) that offering amnesty to criminals sent to the front was a bad idea - the Russian government's response could be paraphrased as "We don't expect them to live long enough to enjoy it". All you've got left are people attracted by signing bonuses and death bonuses larger than a year's salary, and the lottery chance that they might live long enough to collect it. (They won't)

And now that, because they can't win on the battlefield they've started intentionally targetting civilian shopping centres, schools and hospitals with guided munitions with an evil abandon. At least some countries pretend like there's a legitimate target living in the refugee camp before they send the dronestrike in... Russia doesn't even put that fig leaf in it.

There is no both sides. Russia must be defeated as quickly as possible. Its armies must be crushed and sent home. It's economy sent down the toilet. It must become an ex-country. It must come cap-in hand to the world for forgivness. Only then will this not be repeated in 20 years time (Like the last time).

Meanwhile, the ordinary russian citizenry are cheering for it. Or don't give a shit. Until the war comes for them - and then it's "What did we do to deserve this?"