Putin Wishes Ukrainians a Merry Christmas with Massive Missile Attack
Let's not forget this and be sure to return the favor.
On Christmas Day, we tried to call a close friend living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As the phone began to ring, she hung up. My wife figured it might have something to do with the daily blackouts they experience. We figured she was preserving her phone’s battery. An hour later, she wrote back to explain that there was an air raid underway.
Putin gave the order to launch a massive attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin’s choice of Christmas Day to viciously attack Ukraine most likely comes down to Ukraine’s decision two years ago to begin celebrating Christmas aligned with the Gregorian calendar. The refusal is a stark reminder to Putin of his failure to take over Kyiv in “three days.” It is a reminder that Ukraine is an independent nation that will never concede. It will do everything it can, and to the last man or woman, to never be a part of Russia.
Missiles and drones rained down on Kyiv, blowing up not military sites but apartment buildings with Ukrianians celebrating Christmas. It is cold in Kyiv. For many families, it got a lot colder, and in the meantime, the nation of eternal whiners, Russia, acts like nothing is amiss. They act like they are the offended and that the world owes them something for being so “misunderstood.”
I would like to make a special “Russian Christmas wish.” I hope President Zelensky is reading this article and takes my suggestion into consideration. Don’t retaliate today or tomorrow to what Zelensky calls an inhumane attack. Save up your missiles, drones, and car bombs. In two weeks, Russians in all of their sick faux religiosity will spread out to their recently rebuilt churches — the communists tore them all down, and most Russians didn’t miss them a bit — like cockroaches. Endlessly crossing themselves three times, they will stand with their worm of a leader before damned icons and imagine themselves to be the “holiest people” on the planet.
They are not holy, though. Russians are a damned and soul-less people — not all, not individually, of course, but collectively, they are. After 30 years in their country, living full-time, I was never moved by a deep, heartfelt spirituality. They are always out for themselves and will stomp on anyone in the way. We must not “buy” this version of them in which they are religious, spiritual, or good. Russia is eternally damned, and the rest of the world pays for that evil. When Russians leave their country, though, some manage to break out of the cocoon of selfishness and spiritual irrelevance, but most can’t — they are just as caustic and callous as they are in Russia.
Ukraine should mend itself after this latest crime against humanity. Ukrainians must remember that Russia is a country that supports genocide, and so when the intense flickering of the Christmas candles in cathedrals all over Russia begins to resemble sunlight dancing across a morning lake, and the aroma of melting beeswax fills the lungs of the “believers,” let the missiles and drones fly. Overwhelm Russia’s air defense system and hit them where they are weak — bomb things. Bring the pain and the horrors to their doorstep and let them know that they really experience what the world thinks of them after nearly three years of bloody criminality.
Some will say innocent Russians will die. Let’s begin by asking the following question: Are there any innocent Russians left in Russia today? If you support Putin or silently accept this, your innocence is an impossibility. There are many Russians who can’t do anything to stop this, and they are physically not capable of protesting. I know many such people. For their sake, when the bombs come, I pray they are safe.
There are many Russians who could do something, but they choose not to because they are enjoying life too much. Money flows from the government into the private sector and Russians are making a lot of money. Why rock the boat, they figure? Earn the money and buy apartments and cars — what a great life, right? These people shrug their shoulders and ask, “How could I stop this? Besides, why don’t the Ukrainians just give up? Things won’t be that bad.”
Let the drones find these cowards.