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They Act Like a Bunch of Tough Guys But Really Are Cowards
Meet the average Russian fighting in Ukraine, living with rodents
It’s called streptococcus. It is a zoonotic disease, meaning it transfers from animals to humans. Russia’s brave heroes are contracting this viral disease thanks to Ukrainian rodents. The infection is passed on to humans through direct contact, inhalation, urine, feces, or mucous secretions.
It sounds inspiring. It also sounds par for Putin’s well-planned war launched nearly two years ago. The men of Russia are being abused in a way that, well, only Russian men would tolerate. I want to think, but of course, I can’t know, that Chinese and North Korean generals would be more sympathetic to the conditions their soldiers are facing on the front lines, in the rear, during training — or lack of in Russia’s case — and when they are killed (Russians leave their fallen on the battlefield because God only knows that no one is going to sacrifice himself for a person most think “got lucky”).
The symptoms are gruesome, but how the officers in charge react is even more gruesome.
Symptoms include severe headache, high fever, rash, low blood pressure, bleeding eyes, nausea, vomiting, and severe lower back pain. In its early stages, the disease resembles the common flu.
