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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAngry Russian mothers accuse Putin of using their sons as cannon fodder
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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
(17,757 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)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
(43,476 posts)War profiteering lives on, no matter what political system!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)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
(20,791 posts)He's really stuck in the past. Ukraine is holding on in spite of him, and the world is newly united.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)Don't try to fool mothers, it never works.
crickets
(25,990 posts)His son is where the privileged sons often are in such times: university. The ever so slight hesitation before he answers says it all.