fightforfreedom
fightforfreedom's JournalTens of thousands of Russian families have no idea what's coming their way, yet.
During the Iraq war we had 4,431 soldiers killed in action. We had 31,994 wounded.
In a few weeks the Russian casualties have topped those numbers. I do not know how the Russian government handles their dead and wounded. However, they will not be able to hide the fact their soldiers have been killed from their families. The number of wounded Russian soldiers is staggering. At some point tens of thousands of Russian soldiers will return to their families missing arms, legs, many will be brain damaged, permanently disabled.
The horror of this war has not yet hit the Russian people. Soon, tens of thousands of Russians families will have their lives devastated.
Putin will not be able to hide what has happened for long. As time passes more and more Russians will turn against the war. I have said from the beginning, only the people of Russia can end this war.
I would not complain if someone filled Joe Manchins yacht with coal.
To the point where it sank.
Putin is a paranoid coward.
He is so brave when he attacks women and babies from long range. He is afraid of the Ukrainian army because they fight back. When you fight back against Putin, he doesn't know what to do. He just lashes out against the innocent who can't defend themselves. What an asshole.
This is the definition of a coward.
I like the people of Ukraine better than I like the Trump voters.
The people of Ukraine recognize reality, Trump voters do not. It's that fucking simple. Trump could bomb the Trump voters and they would blame the Democrats. History is going to be very cruel to the Trump voters.
My insurance company denied the pet scan needed for my melanoma surgery.
Our healthcare system is fucking insane. There is some good news, I hope. I believe I have figured out what the insurance company is up to. They have decided I need a head CT head scan for now. My surgeon says I need a full body pet scan. They are arguing with my life. What's crazy is, I have had many preventive scans and they were all immediately approved. Now I need a scan for life saving surgery and they deny it.
On Monday I see another surgeon who will also be involved with my surgery. She will team up with my other surgeon and also request a pet scan. Hopefully that will be enough to get them to approve it. If not I will tell my doctors I will pay for the pet scan and then fight later for a refund from the insurance company. I can't let them block my surgery.
If you do the math, Russian ground forces must be taking horrific losses.
Russian forces have now been on the ground for 21 days, in many cases bogged down, sitting ducks, a turkey shoot. Their losses may be worse than what is being reported.
The Ukraine military is still intake, it has grown in size with thousands of volunteers. Tons of weapons have flooded into Ukraine, including tens of thousands of shoulder fired missiles. For 3 weeks the Ukraine military has been attacking in small groups, attacking Russian supply lines that stretch for hundreds of miles, attacking Russian patrols.
We have seen the videos of some of these attacks. We have not seen videos of hundreds of other attacks. The Ukraine military still has some jets and drones that have been bombing Russian troops. The losses from just all the shoulder fired missiles must be staggering.
Russian forces have been there for three weeks and they still haven't surrounded major cities. They have been bombing cities from far range. The reason for this must be because their ground forces are getting their ass kicked and I am glad. Putin knows his ground invasion has failed and he must be looking for a way out. Time will tell.
I think Putin knows he is fucked.
He is stuck, he is looking for a way out. He can't find one so he is just lashing out, trying to get Ukraine to surrender by brute force.
I guess the question is, how do we let Putin win, save face, without him really winning? That is a really tough question.
Update on my melanoma treatment.
There is no update, I have not been treated at all and I have good health insurance.
Fair warning to everyone. This is what I have learned.
Doctors, hospitals and insurance companies play a game of poker with our lives. I need a pet scan before any treatment can begin. My doctor requested a full body pet scan. The so called doctors of the insurance company made a counter offer. It has been stuck in limbo.
When I see my doctor I am going to ask him this question word for word. Don't you know how to play fucking Poker? They are gambling with my life. The insurance company is offering my doctor a cheaper scan, just a head scan. My doctor will probably accept it. When that will happen they cannot tell me.
We have to move to a medicare for all healthcare system. We have to take the profit out of healthcare. If the American people do not understand this, it proves to me again how stupid the American people really are. I am not eligible for medicare yet, I am 63. If I had medicare my scan would have been approved already and my surgery would have been done.
I repeat, I have good health insurance, but it's still insurance, PROFIT.
Whenever the news shows the map of Ukraine, I shake my head in disbelief.
Putin is trying to take over a country about the size of Texas with a force of roughly 200,000 troops. He has these troops spread out for hundreds of miles. He is attacking from the North and east. His supply lines stretch for hundreds of miles.
The people of Ukraine have made it clear they will never surrender. When grandmothers are willing to take up arms against you, you have a problem.
The Ukraine army has grown in size. Thousands and thousands of anti-tank, anti-aircraft missiles have been delivered to the Ukraine military. More and more of these weapons are arriving everyday. Putin will not be able to stop the flow of arms into Ukraine
We can see from videos the Ukraine army is fighting in small groups across Ukraine. They are destroying tanks and aircraft one by one. They have killed thousands of Russian soldiers .
Putin has been trying to surround cities for over two weeks. If you have trouble surrounding cites, what is going to happen when you try to take those cities? It looks like Putin is hoping he can bomb, starve, the Ukrainian people until they surrender. They will not surrender. They will fight to the last man. You don't have to be a military expert to see what is going to happen to the Russian forces over time.
They will face hundreds, perhaps thousands of small groups of Ukrainian soldiers armed with thousands of missiles. They will attack the Russian soldiers everywhere across Ukraine with hit and run tactics. They will attack Russian supply lines. They will attack Russian patrols. Putin will eventually surround cities, lay siege to them. Those soldiers will come under attack from every direction. Yes, the Russians can kill hundreds of thousands of people. Yes, they can turn cities into ruble. That doesn't mean you are winning.
Putin must be reading the wrong history books. History tells us you can level a city, lay siege to it and the soldiers in that city will not give up. It can result in a stalemate. If you send forces in they will have to fight door to door. You will lose thousands of soldiers.
If this war continues on for months I can see Russian soldiers in certain cases getting cut off from supply lines, entrapped. I can see a Russian patrol make a wrong turn right into an ambush. Russian soldiers will never know when or where the next attack will come from. They will be demoralized.
Unless Putin has a secret plan that nobody knows about. We could be witnessing one of the biggest military blunders in history.
Many parents in Russia will not be able to bury their sons killed in Ukraine.
They will notice their son is no longer calling home. Maybe their government will inform them their son was killed?
But they will never receive the body of their sons. They are lying on the ground dead, rotting.
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