"...News from da front"

First of all it's fucking cold. Da hell is going on?! Maybe it really is global cooling after all. Otherwise I'm swell. At da front I can't help but notice in the 4th European Tribal World War looting is a regular business. 

Them Russkies after the last big one stripped everywhere they eh...liberated bare. If it was nailed down they yanked up the nails and took the stuff...nails too. 

This tradition continues. 

Russia is was and always will be a hybrid 2nd/3rd world tribe . Like we're a 1st and 2nd world bunch. Albeit one with growing 3rd world patches. I know. I live in one. Anyway business as usual at da front. Ya know murder rape as a weapons of war and burning bodies to get rid of the evidence all that.

Da red heroes are stripping farming equipment factories. Plundering John Deer showrooms. Taking everything with wheels. Some are going to Mama Russian the rest tossed to their pals that are helping them. Belarus and Chechnya in particular. Russians get first pick and Chechnya is pissed. No honor among rapists.

Grain. Ukraine is a major bread basket of the whole bleeping World. Seems most of it or at least all they can get their hands on is going east. The fucking Russians need to steal food! Hell in Afghanistan we only stole drugs. Primo shit too so ya couldn't blame da G.I.s

Anyway, that's what gets me. 

A giant industrial nuclear armed space faring tribe has to steal tractors and grain. Well sure the conscripts are looting the hell out of people's homes...while they're still living in them. Which is where all them rapes are happening.  

But damn! 

Look in our 20 year Afghan war we didn't steal fucking tractors or TV's...fer craps sakes. Heroin sure but com'on! Ya gotta admit even if ya a Putin fan the optics are shit.

Speaking of burning bodies. 

The Ukrainians got proof of that rumor that Russian dead are being cremated at the front. This to keep their numbers down. The families get notices their kids are missing. Whereas they're ground up ash dumped in muddy fields. A cremation truck and equipment was found along with a few trucks of dead. Bad shit. 

The Ukrainian tribe still counts and buries their dead.

See above. They understand optics better.

In Vietnam we did almost the same. Didn't burn our dead but suppressed their numbers. Near a 1000 Marines bought it during battles in the A Shau Valley. The numbers were released in lots of 30 or 40 over months. 

Least we didn't burn'em and count them missing. 

I read the red tribe does this not just to cook da numbers...so to speak. But also so they don't have to pay out to the families. Turns out they can't afford to. The "missing" will of course never be found so the price is right.

Man, this is depressing shit.

I'm going for a walk. An American 2nd/3rd world hood is a gated community compared to most of this wretched planet. Heck my odds of coming home alive are slightly better than even. Who could ask for more. Well ice cream which I think I'll get.