Vodka, the breakfast of champions

To follow Verdun-like assaults on Bakhmut, re-introduction of 1940s era tanks and 1890s era rifles into common use, the crash of an airplane taking off the wrong way on the runway towards a city center,  the failure of a basic air-air missile in an illegal attack on a British surveillance aircraft, and a whole lot more, a Russian SU-34 has dropped its payload of bombs on....the city center of Belgorod, Russia, leaving a 60 foot diameter crater and landing at least one car on its roof on the roof of a store.  For perspective, that's a similar size crater to those that shells from the U.S.S. Missouri left when shelling Lebanon.

It's not certain whether the pilot is going to be punished, or considered for a promotion, as attacking innocent civilians is of course right up their alley.

In a rare public protest, the residents of Belgorod said that while they expected Vladimir Putin to work to get them killed, like any good Russian citizens, they felt that being blown to bits was a bit too quick and painless, as they've come to expect being handed rusty, obsolete weapons, sent to the front in inadequate clothing for the cold, systematically starved while being given no training, all before being sent to attack Russia's enemies in suicidal wave attacks.  It's tradition, you know.

And with treatment like that, it's no wonder that in Russia, vodka seems to be the breakfast of champions there.  It really explains a lot. 

Slava Ukraini, and Putin delenda est!