Of Old Gods, Monsters and Cats

Will sashameetsrussia write about that? I highly doubt.

Link.

I don't feel okay mentally right now so I'll be brief: on the night between the 18th and the 19th of July there was a massive ballistic air raid on Kyiv, my city. I think a total of 50 ballistic missiles were launched towards my city and, as you may know, there are no ways to defend ourselves against them at the moment. There are Patriot air defense complexes, but we don't have any ammunition for them.

With ballistic missiles there's only 1-3 minutes from the moment they're launched to the moment they hit the target. Tonight's targets were shopping malls and civil apartment blocks. Including my very neighborhood and my very street.

We had no time to run to the shelter (an underground parking lot of the building next door) so we huddled in the hallway of our flat, away from the windows. The explosions were so so loud, I heard the glass in the windows shake from the explosion wave. For a second I thought the missiles hit our building directly or broke the windows.

I made my family run in our pajamas in the SHORT break of 2 minutes between the missile launches. That's how bad it was. I noticed my mom, my dog and my sibling getting ahead and thought to myself that if I died and they got to safety first, I would be happy. We all got to the shelter and could barely handle the shock.

I felt like I would never ever ever sleep or eat again, that I never wanted to do anything in my life ever again.

My street is a short one, around 20 buildings in total. A missile landed 300 meters away from our home and all apartment blocks except ours got their windows blown out. A newly reconstructed historical building burned down. Our building was okay only because other buildings took the shockwave on themselves.

Actually twenty one, another one launched while I was typing that

So far there’s a damaged residential building, a shopping mall, some cars

It is not a fucking military object, it is a fucking bomb shelter that was already damaged many, many times before.

A supermarket and some more residential buildings were damaged

I’m not sitting here manifesting some fantasy map where ruzzia splits into 30 tiny countries. I honestly don't care if they officially break apart on paper. I just want the absolute bare minimum for ruzzia: complete internal chaos, civil unrest, and finally just to fuck off out of Ukraine for good. I want them to experience the same hell they have brought to Ukraine. If ruzzia disintegrates in the process — yay, bonus!

And do you remember that massive authoritarian regimes totally never collapse out of nowhere? It was all in the history. Кучма: Та це ж було вже!

It’s like people completely forgot about the USSR. Did anyone actually think the Soviet Union was going to fall apart? Literally nobody in the late 80s saw it coming. The CIA, top political scientists, and the Soviets themselves all thought the USSR was basically invincible right up until the exact second it vanished. Besides, it’s not like modern ruzzia shares any similarities with the late USSR.

The Wars: Afghanistan vs. Ukraine

The USSR: Spent 9 years in Afghanistan with a peak force of around 115,000 troops, losing roughly 15,000 soldiers. It was a massive national trauma that helped shatter the entire Soviet system.

Modern ruzzia: In Ukraine, they've managed to rack up nearly 1.2 million casualties (killed and wounded) in just about four years. They are losing much more people than the Soviets did in a decade, all for the glorious prize of advancing a few dozen meters a day. Absolute masterclass in military strategy.

The War Budget

The USSR: By the late 80s, the Soviets were spending an insane 15% to 20%+ of their GDP on defense. They completely suffocated the civilian economy just to stockpile weapons while their citizens queued for basic groceries. I remember this time because I was born in 80s.

Modern ruzzia: Officially, they claim defense spending is around 6% to 7.5% of GDP right now. But if you look at intelligence estimates, the real number is pushing 10%, sucking up massive chunks of their entire state budget. They are actively overheating their entire economy just to keep the meat grinder running

The Oil Addiction

The USSR: Propped up entirely by high oil prices in the 70s. When prices crashed in the 80s, the empire's bank account emptied out, and the whole facade crumbled. They had zero backup plan.

Modern ruzzia: They're funding this apocalyptic adventure by selling discounted oil to anyone who will take it, all while Ukrainian drones are casually knocking up to 40% of their refining capacity offline.

Hundreds of thousands of dead putins sitting on the border cause russia doesn't want them back for failing in their mission to destroy Ukraine and rape and torture every Ukr.

Hundreds, thousands of putins stealing Ukrainian children and indoctrinating them into 'russia is best. russia is king. Ukraine is nothing'.

Hundreds, thousands of putins looting Ukr artworks and artifacts and just plain old every day items and sending them back to the putins back in russia.

Thousands of mini putins bragging to their families about the terror and murder they are inflicting on innocent civilians.

Ukraine today (11.07.26)

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