F is for Faceplant

Very hard for a thoughtful person to post frivolity while a war is going on where he has friends.

Although it's starting to look as if Putin has - like all dictators in the end - miscalculated badly, and on many levels, but if the Russian people don't get rid of him in the next 48/72 (?) hours, we may all be in a nuclear-war, as he's not pissing-about, he's losing his temper and his rationality with it.

On the plus side, it looks like the Ukrainians have blunted his invasion and smashed the forward elements of his army, some military annalists are saying up to a quarter of the force he assembled has been neutralised, and while he's only committed a third - and those awful fascists from Chechnya are on the way - of the force available, the units behind are having to advance through the falling-back mauled elements, so there's now a level of chaos in the advance.

Here's a sobering thought which the media seem to have missed picking-up on: Putin's forces have mobile crematoria in their rear-echelons, he [Putin] never had any intention of returning body-bags to mothers, he's burning his dead in the field - I don't know what that does to moral, but I guess it's not good; I don't think any army ever went to war with body-ovens before.

So, in a sombre mood, I though a few images from Faceplant I've re-posted in the last few days were in order;

The Ukrainians are calling him Vladimir Vladimirovic Putler!

Don't forget the pets!

On the left, born with a Nazi-sympathiser's silver spoon up his arse, 

on the right, actor and comedian, 

elected against the propaganda, not with it.

Against the myth of Putin's that Ukraine is 'Only' Mother Russia,

it's probably regretting helping give birth to the Bear?

On the subject of Mother Russia . . . remember Putin's ex-wife

 is in internal exile in the 'Turd' (Kaliningrad).

From the New Elephant, original caption reads "Dumbest man in universe hails another man as a 'genius' and also praises doorjambs and those little plastic tables you get with takeaway Pizzas"

 

And on the subject of the Republicans, those who are supporting Putin disgust me, I don't know where this is (somewhere in or near Florida!), but I believe it's genuine?

 

More conservatives with all that lovely lucre from Putin's cronies! This was on the NHS Newsday wesite and is from the Independent's website, you can donate to medical charities here, and the money is transfered straight to Ukraine (this is a 21st Century war being fought in a developed democracy), so thay can literally pay for stuff over the counter while supplies can still reach them from the West.

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[A wounded woman is seen after an airstrike damaged an apartment complex in city of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv. Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]