Sister, I don't have a leg, could have had one but it is too late to think - Russian soldier

[BeyondGeography]

[Karadeniz]

1. That was so interesting! Yesterday my hairdresser told me that the Russians were treating

injured Ukrainians. I haven't heard that and, anyway, they don't have the personnel or facilities to give the sort of medical attention the Ukrainians are giving. I get so tired of listening to her misinformation, but you can't tell her anything.

[Warpy]

5. Here

They're treated, but not well. Russians don't believe in pain control, for one thing. They're fighting their drug war against patients, just like we are, although to a much larger extent. This is one tough kid, to survive 17 days of it.

This guy will need surgery. The bright flashes indicate probable retinal detachment in the eye that is blind. His pelvis is likely to heal by itself, although rehab will be a bitch, and his concussion will slowly resolve. No retrograde amnesia is a good sign, although he'd probably tell you he wishes he didn't remember it.

[Karadeniz]

8. I can't imagine where my hairdresser gets her news. She once said she used Facebook and

Newsmax. Groan......

[Warpy]

9. Tell her they're kept alive for prisoner exchanges--bleeding is stopped

and wounds are bandaged but that's most likely as far as it goes. This poor kid didn't even get his eye seen to. Now it might be too late.

Also, find another hairdresser. She's not worth the aggravation and you know brain cells are dying every time she opens her mouth at you while you're stuck in the chair.

[Karadeniz]

11. I get tense just going!!!

[Emile]

2. OMG that video is incredible. I watched every minute

of it. Thanks for posting.

[Warpy]

3. He had no idea it was a war until the end of March?

no wonder the guy asking the questions looks exhausted and exasperated.

Edit to Add: I hope someone shows him this:

Prosthetics have come a long way since the 1950s, and in Russia as well as the US, and for the same reason.

[jaxexpat]

4. So there it is. Real live war, 2022 style.

War between people who essentially speak very similar languages. Direct communication is not at all impossible. Yet the facts only trickle between the hearts and minds of such similar cultures. Because there is evil in the world and its name is arrogance. I didn't see any arrogance in the interview.

Must be like the closing months of the American civil war in that respect. The confederates thought it was all a win until it wasn't. Lee hung on far longer than was humane to anyone and for no reason except his hope that Lincoln might not accede to his second term. His beaten barefoot boys dragging their sorry asses all over nowhere for basically nothing except the folly and arrogance of their commander.

This shit makes me sick and angry.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Me too

All this suffering and waste because of one megalomaniacal asshole. By the end of it, all I could think of was Putin and his stupid fucking parade on Monday.

[Warpy]

10. I saw some prevarication

Hell, I'd say he's lying his ass off, hoping no survivors of his war efforts recognize him before he's shipped back to Russia.

now he's short a leg and the only good thing is that his soldiering days are over. Dancing, no, soldiering, yes.

The parallel with the Civil War was a good one, it was a total con job in the south, pushed by rich men and preachers who controlled the messaging and Lee was a good part of the reason it hung on after Gettysburg made it clear the south could not succeed.

The border was "crashed," but you thought you were there with Ukraine's blessing? C'mon, kid, even you can do better than that.

[jaxexpat]

12. He literally has no country or place of refuge.

He speaks the national language of dead souls. So did his sister. When none are innocent, guilt is inescapable and all evade justice as best they can. Perhaps a legacy of obstinance is the inheritance of those whose ancestors, through millennia, learned to sigh resignedly into the face of invasion. How much collective brain damage does ones culture absorb while rope-a-doping its way through history's rape and rampage of the neighborhood? Just asking.

[Warpy]

14. Yep, I mentioned that the interrogator looked exhausted and exasperated

This kid probably just isn't worth the trouble, they'll send him home because they know he won't be back, no matter how fancy the prosthesis is. He will then be their problem.

About the only truth I heard from this is the female voice saying he wasn't on the list as killed, wounded or captured. Russia hasn't been owning up to the true numbers of any of those.

[Piasladic]

7. Excellent Post

Very moving, infuriating, depressing, and a bit happy all at the same time.

[2naSalit]

13. K&R