Angry Russian mothers accuse Putin of using their sons as cannon fodder

[Laura PourMeADrink]

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Have also read that in Russia ordinary people because of sanctions have no access to cash ATMs and food getting scarce. Ordinary people always suffer the worse in war, eh?

[Chainfire]

1. Putin won't have to stand in line or miss a meal. That is all that matters.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Kinda off topic but - Did you listen to Fiona Hill on Bill Maher? It was just

Interesting because she talked about sitting next to Putin at a dinner. He never touched a thing, not even a sip of his water. Not sure when this was but the man must be deadly afraid that someone's going to poison him.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. In Soviet era, that would have been "capitalist cannon fodder"

War profiteering lives on, no matter what political system!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Ya wonder how the views of ordinary people are colored by

governments. Did we ever truly hate the Russian people? Remember reading in school that Russians were shown films of The Three Stooges and were told that we were super-humans and to be scared of us. Clips of the stooges having pianos and safes fall on them and getting up and dusting themselves off and are just fine.

[lindysalsagal]

5. That footage was unthinkable just 20 years ago. This is vlad's biggest mistake.

He's really stuck in the past. Ukraine is holding on in spite of him, and the world is newly united.

[Wingus Dingus]

6. Wow. Some of them know what's up.

Don't try to fool mothers, it never works.

[crickets]

7. "Where is *your* son by the way?"

His son is where the privileged sons often are in such times: university. The ever so slight hesitation before he answers says it all.