When Russia invaded Ukraine I knew they were in trouble when I seen this.

[fightforfreedom]

Grandmothers arming themselves. When Grandmothers are arming themselves, everyone is arming themselves, joining the fight in some way. I knew Russia was not just fighting the Ukraine military. They were fighting roughly 40 million people.

[jcgoldie]

1. My favorite story

Is of the Ukrainian grandma meeting Russian soldiers in the street to give them sunflower seeds when they came through town. She told them to fill their pockets so their bodies would fertilize flowers when they were killed in her country. Badass.

[fightforfreedom]

4. I remember that, that was amazing.

[NJCher]

28. wasn't there one who

threw a pickle jar at a drone that flew a bit too close to her highrise balcony?

[Walleye]

2. The babushka battalion!!!

[SheltieLover]

5. Yup!

[Walleye]

6. I wouldn't wanna mess with them.Their soldiers aren't strong enough to beat these people

Another miscalculation by Putin,in my opinion, These are not the Russian people from World War II. This is a Russian society that is used to peace, prosperity and modern conveniences. I don’t know how long they’re gonna put up with this bullshit

[SheltieLover]

7. I hope today is the day they decide to oust him!

I think fitting punishment would be to lock pootin & tfg in a cell, in solitary, for life. No pardons allowed.

[Walleye]

9. That sounds like real justice to me

[SheltieLover]

10. Lol

Tfg would find out very quickly how "nice" pootin is.

Hell for both of them.

[Walleye]

12. Yeah, throw a big Mac in the cell and let them fight over it

[SheltieLover]

13. Hahaha!

Good thought!

[dchill]

17. Yes. Put them in the same cell.

[SheltieLover]

21. That would be fitting imo.

In somewhere like gitmo.

[dchill]

23. Even Funk & Wagnall's back porch would do.

[SheltieLover]

24. Hahaha!

Well, they'd have to be completely isolated from others, including Nature.

Somewhere where both voices would reverberate off the walls, like nails on a blackboard.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. a friend of my late mom had a friend who fled ukr whilst a little girl.

whilst there the children put on a dance . the russians under the ccp thought it was cute , but in reality it was a lambastion of the russians in plain site .

[Walleye]

19. I'm really starting to relate to the soul of these people.

[SheltieLover]

20. Lol

Cute story.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. "You have struck a rock". Different time and place but applicable

Typo in OP: "seen" should by "saw".

[niyad]

8. Exactly.

[TheRealNorth]

11. I thought from the very beginning Russia didn't have enough men.

We had more men at the start of the 2nd Iraq War then they had at the start of the Ukrainian War. I would have thought 500,000 at the minimum.

Of course, they had trouble supplying what they even did have.

[Roc2020]

14. I knew Russia was in trouble

when they failed to take the Capital within a week. Most freedom loving people would rather die than live under a dictatorship. Loud and clear message to Putin.

[Joinfortmill]

15. Yup

[OnlinePoker]

16. "I need ammunition, not a ride"

Zelensky said this on the 3rd day of the invasion. That's when the tide turned and the west realized they could trust this guy not to tuck tail and run when things got tough. I see no way he won't be Time's Person of the Year for 2022.

[Walleye]

22. Of course a Shakespeare quote is appropriate here

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” Twelfth Night. Zelenskyy had greatness thrust upon him and rose to the occasion. Almost restores my faith in humanity. I wonder if others feel the same way

[lpbk2713]

25. I remember a story about Ukr babushkas offering poison brownies to Russian troops.

Morbidly funny. But funny just the same.

Use whatever weapons you have at hand.

[Warpy]

26. Have you ever met any Ukrainian grandmas?

I think they must be the most formidable women on the planet. The ones I knew back east weren't afraid of anything, not even hell, because most of them had been there already.

A typical Ukrainian grandma is the one who gave sunflower seeds to a Russian soldier and told him to keep them in his pocket, so that flowers would grow where he died.

[DFW]

27. This was one of my favorite verses in the "Fearless Leader" song:

Vla-DI-mir thinks he’s very clever
But this can’t go on forever
Things just aren’t going as he planned
Spetznaz troops and all the others
Stopped by groups of great grandmothers
Standing proudly to defend their land

[TeamProg]

29. I 'seen it' earlier than that!

When Putin invaded Crimea and Ukraine fought back like hell! Oh wait, no.. Ukraine didn't.

Let's hope the war is coming to a close and Putin will be forced out of office.

Until then, my personal predictions, feelings and observations are just that, personal predictions, being I'm no expert on these matters.

[Skittles]

31. argh

I SEEN is a pet peeve of mine

[Deep State Witch]

30. Those Grandmothers

Were probably kids during WWII, and were definitely kids during the Soviet era. They knew what the Russians did to them.