Lessons Learned From TikTok

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oil, his decomposing body can be used as nourishment for the seeds that will grow food, thereby redeeming his sorry Russian ass. Her words, not mine.In the second video, an older gentleman rips name tags off of Russian uniforms so he can add them to his “collection.” You can hear people laughing in the background, as well as what I presume to be cursing, but can’t tell because I don’t speak the language.The third video shows a Ukrainian farmer using a large tractor to tow a Russian tank that had apparently run out of gas. A soldier can be seen running after the tank while laughing is heard in the background.In each of the videos, the soldiers are young, and maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part, but their expre

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ssions say they’d rather be anywhere but the Ukraine. They don’t retaliate as they are being provoked, but do try to speak to the Ukrainians to get them to stop. Frankly, I’m surprised that they don’t try to confiscate the phones being used to video them.I know that Putin controls the Russian internet and only communicates what he wants everyone to hear. But, my tech-savvy husband tells me that phone-to-phone transmission is more difficult to control.Maybe it’s more wishful thinking on my part, but I hope more of these videos get out of Ukraine and into Russia, so more people there might understand that Putin is lying to them, that the Ukrainian people just want to be left alone, and that no one wants a war.</article></body>

Harassing Russian Soldiers

My daughter, a true devotee of the TikTok app, shared a few videos with me showcasing Ukrainian citizens harassing Russian soldiers.

In the first video, a woman approaches a soldier with packets of sunflower seeds. She asks the soldier to place the packets in his pocket so that when he dies on Ukrainian soil, his decomposing body can be used as nourishment for the seeds that will grow food, thereby redeeming his sorry Russian ass. Her words, not mine.

In the second video, an older gentleman rips name tags off of Russian uniforms so he can add them to his “collection.” You can hear people laughing in the background, as well as what I presume to be cursing, but can’t tell because I don’t speak the language.

The third video shows a Ukrainian farmer using a large tractor to tow a Russian tank that had apparently run out of gas. A soldier can be seen running after the tank while laughing is heard in the background.

In each of the videos, the soldiers are young, and maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part, but their expressions say they’d rather be anywhere but the Ukraine. They don’t retaliate as they are being provoked, but do try to speak to the Ukrainians to get them to stop. Frankly, I’m surprised that they don’t try to confiscate the phones being used to video them.

I know that Putin controls the Russian internet and only communicates what he wants everyone to hear. But, my tech-savvy husband tells me that phone-to-phone transmission is more difficult to control.

Maybe it’s more wishful thinking on my part, but I hope more of these videos get out of Ukraine and into Russia, so more people there might understand that Putin is lying to them, that the Ukrainian people just want to be left alone, and that no one wants a war.