It’s the day after Thanksgiving, things are slow, and everyone is feeling a bit sluggish. That’s the excuse for this post, featuring another Russian soldier caught out by drone pilots in the wrong place – their Ukraine homeless – at the excruciatingly wrong time. Or in other words, herewith another video of a UAV dropping an explosive load on a Russki soldat doing number two – this one a form aerial bathroom humor decidedly short on the yucks.
Put in the popular (for as long as it lasts) vernacular, Ukraine videos of drones sending Russian soldiers fleeing for their lives after being caught relieving themselves is apparently “a thing” now; an established sub-genre in the ever-expanding genus of wartime footage of UAVs striking invading forces. The latest of those was singled out by the New Voice of Ukraine, which – given the subject matter – spoke in pretty merciless tones, even while making light of events.
The publication went live Thursday with an account of a particularly hapless Russian soldier having been compelled to respond to nature’s call in what appears to be the midst of an overgrown wilderness area. Compelled by what the remote circumstances made a rather excessive sense of modesty, the man sought a bit of privacy by crouching behind the only obstruction around.
Unfortunately, that happened to be a flatbed military truck, which stood out conspicuously in the gazes of Ukraine drone pilots overflying the area at the time, who captured both long and zoom video shots as they zeroed in on their target.
To make what is already an agonizingly long recounting slightly shorter than it could be, the operators of the Ukraine drone rapidly provided a particularly stark example of how “war is hell,” capturing video evidence of just how pitiless and brutal the conflict has made combatants on both sides as they did so.
Things have changed a lot since the youthful George Orwell, while fighting as a volunteer with Republican forces in Spain, refused to shoot a Fascist soldier he’d lined up in his sights – unwilling, he later wrote, to add literal injury (or worse) to the insult of his would-be target having to escape after being caught (also literally) with his pants down. The Russian fighter was given no such mercy, or at little as he’d have doubtless granted had the the tables been turned.
Indeed, most responses to the social media post of the footage echoed the tone of the New Voice of Ukraine by making light of what in any other scenario would have registered as a truly grim act. Instead, it was clearly interpreted and accepted as one of the gruesome and inhumane ways Ukraine’s legitimate and just national defensive struggle is being fought.
Among those who replied, @Wanha Sukka had perhaps the most Orwellian of reactions to the Russian soldier’s singularly ignoble demise, expressing a sentiment that manifestly didn’t inhabit Vladimir when he launched the brutal invasion – and which Ukraine fighters can’t afford to dwell upon in the existential struggle to preserve their nation’s independence: “I don’t know whether to pity or not attacking a man at moment he is the most vulnerable.”
“the operators of the Ukraine drone rapidly provided a particularly stark example of how “war is hell,” capturing video evidence of just how pitiless and brutal the conflict has made combatants on both sides as they did so.”
The orcs should get exactly the same amount of mercy that they have given out : precisely zero.
Until or unless Russia has formally apologised, paid full reparations, been denazified, demilitarized and denuked, there can never be any mercy.
Remember in the Clint Eastwood movie : Unforgiven, the Scofield kid says about one of the rapists :
“Woo! I shot him when he was in the shitter!”
Later, Eastwood confronts the weasel sheriff who savagely beat his friend to death and kills him.
Eastwood then tells the townsfolk:
“Any of you try to take a shot at me and I will kill you, I will kill your friends, I will kill your wife and I will burn your house down.”
I think that is exactly how Ukrainians will feel about all Russians (except the democratic anti-putler bloc; which might be as little as 20%, or as large as 60%; we just don’t know at the moment). The desire for revenge will be immense and will go on for decades. Or at least until the demonic evil has been replaced with shame and genuine sorrow; ie not crocodile tears.
Off topic (but not totally), the DT reports:
“Leo Varadkar has condemned the rioters who brought chaos to Dublin city centre on Thursday evening as “criminals” who are “filled with hate”.
Ireland’s prime minister said the roughly 500 people involved “brought shame on Ireland”
A police officer was seriously injured in the violence in what police chief Drew Harris called the country’s worst public disorder “for decades”.
The anti-migrant protesters descended on the streets of the capital after a man stabbed three small schoolchildren and a teacher outside a Dublin primary school.
“These criminals did not do what they did because they love Ireland. They did not do what they did because they wanted to protect Irish people. They did not do it out of any sense of patriotism, however warped,” Mr Varadkar said in a televised address.”
Since this will help the putler-friendly Sinn Fein/IRA, it would be surprising if there was no “Russia trace” in this violence.
“They did so because they’re filled with hate, they love violence, they love chaos and they love causing pain to others.”
I wonder who that reminds you of?
Lets hope word gets around that now, if you’re moskali, you can’t sleep or shit in peace.
I was criticised some time ago for commenting how good it was that moskali were bombed while having a shit, the moskali shills got upset, poor things.
Anyone who wouldn’t kill their enemy when they have their guard down is useless.