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sheshe2

(83,760 posts)
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 08:31 PM Mar 2022

I can't breathe.

I feel gut punched every morning when I turn on the news.

The images I saw today of Mariupal? It is gone. Completely gone. Putin is insane, he thought this was going to be a slam dunk. He was wrong, stupid and unprepared. Now a cornered rabid animal that has no way out. CNN says that there are 40K Russians now dead, wounded or captured. Their supplies have been cut off, demoralized and starving the troops are walking away. He is killing his own people. This is Russia at it's best? I think not.

My fear is, when a rabid animal, an insane man is cornered he will pull the plug and go nuclear. He never cared before, why now.

My fear is he will commit nuclear suicide and take as many of us with him as he can.

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I can't breathe. (Original Post) sheshe2 Mar 2022 OP
It's so frightening, she mcar Mar 2022 #1
We live in scary times to be sure. Elessar Zappa Mar 2022 #2
I know. madaboutharry Mar 2022 #3
I understand how you feel LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #4
It is very hard to read the news and see the videos. brer cat Mar 2022 #5
I just wanted to leave the children a better place. sheshe2 Mar 2022 #8
After watching today's hearings.... BlueTsunami2018 Mar 2022 #6
I'm sorry. I feel it too 😦 we can do it Mar 2022 #7
I don't like it either. Solomon Mar 2022 #9

madaboutharry

(40,211 posts)
3. I know.
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 08:39 PM
Mar 2022

I feel so bereft. It is heartbreaking to see such senseless suffering. I feel that no matter how hard good people try, there will be the handful of narcissists and mad men who ruin the world for everyone else.



The whole planet is being held hostage by one insane man.

brer cat

(24,565 posts)
5. It is very hard to read the news and see the videos.
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 09:01 PM
Mar 2022

But I remind myself that I am seeing it from far away. Imagine what it is like inside that hell! Whether there are any sane military people in Russia who could stop Putin from going nuclear isn't clear. I hope so, but no way to know. Surely they are not all suicidal?

sheshe2

(83,760 posts)
8. I just wanted to leave the children a better place.
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 09:41 PM
Mar 2022

TFG, GOP and Putin have said differently. I just don't know anymore.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,492 posts)
6. After watching today's hearings....
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 09:04 PM
Mar 2022

and knowing tens of millions of people in this country and billions around the world echo those disgusting sentiments in one way or another, the world might be better off if he does end it all.

Humanity is fucked.

Yeah, I’m sick to death of being sick to death.

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