Watching YouTube videos of the Russian war in Ukraine, I try to view two sides of every story. The 10 day special military operation is clearly a failure from the perspective that the Russian invaders have failed to meet their objectives. Ok, so these objectives are constantly moving with the countless failures, but we all know what they tried on, and it failed.

So now there has been a partial mobilisation, this is leading to further Russian failures. Untrained conscripts are forced to the front lines to be used as cannon fodder. These poorly trained, under-resourced, undisciplined and shockingly bad mobiks have no command leadership and are sent to the front lines to die. They might have an overwhelming numerical advantage over the Ukrainian defenders, but their lack of fighting ability and grit quickly erodes this advantage.

What I see on videos released is Russian mothers, wives and girlfriends pleading to the Russian hierarchy to better train, equip and support their men. Make no mistake, they are not questioning the invasion of Ukraine, they are demanding better conditions [and pay] for their men. They offer no regrets for the suffering of the Ukrainian people, they still use derogatory terms for Ukrainians showing no remorse whatsoever.

Well, sending these poorly trained men to the front lines to try to kill Ukrainian soldiers fighting for freedom, they are failing miserably and the more Russians forced into the meat grinder slowly undermines the future capacity of Russia. It is clear that these women support the invasion of Ukraine, they view Ukrainians as unequal to them and they must pay the price of this arrogance with their lives. Every Ukrainian life lost defending their freedom is a tragedy, the Russian invaders are labelled orcs, their losses are nowhere near as tragic.