Ukrainian beach scene

[Dooley67]

Originally Posted by Torchwatch

How do you play mind games with a tank? The Russian Federation have invaded parts of Ukraine but don't want to admit it. A number of Russian para-troops have been captured, they all just happened to have been on leave at the time acting under their own volition.
The families of Russian soldiers killed in "training exercises" are having bodies returned without explanation of how they died.
NATO are concerned that supporting Ukraine and coming into combat with Russian forces would result in WW3.
Putin is like Hitler in his desire to protect and unite those that speak his language. It is insanity.

There is a Ukrainian disabled swimmer training in one of the cities near the combat zone and hoping to go to the next Para Olympics. He has no arms and found dodging shells difficult. When shells fell close to the swimming pool he uses, broken glass fell into the water, the pool had to be drained and could not be refilled. The swimmer's ambitions are curtailed.

Torchwatch,

You are absolutely right about Putin. It reminds me very much of Stalin and then Kruschev in the post WWII era when many of the countries that the allies, including the then Soviet Union, had liberated, were simply annexed by Stalin. That was when Germany was divided into East Germany (Soviet Union) and West Germany which became a democratic country.

D67