February 24

After Angela left, the place started to fill with smoke. I went outside and stepped on the frozen but bulged ground. Found several holes half inch diameter, several inches deep. Tried to air, but smoke went out only partially, it will take some time until it gets cleared by filters. Unless if they don't come back and push some more burning pellets in the ground.

7:38 I think i saw the guy passing! Blinds were off in the living and i saw one middle age male Japanese guy looking like on million others, round, brown face, black hair and a winter jacket, walking parallel with the long wall of the living room. I went and saw a few holes, also the ground starting to bulge, stepped on those, don't know if i can stop it.

8:00 The guy upstairs left right after i posted  this. They will start a war (a few fireworks in Ukraine so far) just to cover everything.

1:25 I ignored the smoke and went to sleep. When i woke up i realized this is not a nightmare. Putin invaded Ukraine. There is only one small question that bothers me ever since a few hours after "invasion". 44 million people in Ukraine, must be there 20 million cell phones, and though the majority of people was away from where the bombs fell, a small percentage, let's say 1% of the population must have got in the crossfire or pass by and witnessed something, bu chance. 1% of 20 millions is 200k. 200k people with phones must have been close enough to some war scene. Of these, most probably chickened out and hid or ran or something but 1% of those, let's say 2000 must have dared and shoot video from around a concrete wall and take pictures or something and share them and we by know should have seen thousands of videos and images of war. However all we see in media is a few images and those are very not convincing. Why are they not convincing? Do you wanna see how a city looked after being bombed in a real war?

And of course i got a theory on this. None of these happened. Could have been pyrotechnics in areas not so close to cities, even maybe in airports. Some of the airfields and airports should be destroyed, shouldn't they. (But the're talking already about retaking the Kiev airport). And that's all. Everything else is staged by journalists and the governments of those two countries and the great conspiracy of the world. I see now news saying Ukraine recaptured the main airport in Kiev. Could the Russians have been so crazy they sent a few paratroopers or whatever they sent to hold an airport deep in the "enemy" territory.

Everybody knows what Trump said yesterday and today. At the begging to some it seemed a smart move. Seize the territories where Russians are majority. This way Putin would have done a favor to Ukrainians themselves and to everybody. Without a few million Russians in the east, their troubles with Russian minority and bid for NATO would have been much easier. With some territorial loss which might not even be theirs,  historically.

Putin was wrong. It was not Lenin who created Ukraine. It was the end of the Soviet Union. While Ukraine was still in the Soviet Union, it was just a province or just a "Republic" of the Union (USSR or Hunion of Soviet Socialist Republics). It became a sovereign country after the dissolution of USSR which started, let's be honest, with Chernobyl (i also heard stories, from the beginning of the internet, that Chernobyl reactor was empty at that time and the meltdown didn't really happened). And Gorbachev.

Then Putin went nuts and bombed the "Ukraine's infrastructure" (still need to see some proof). Should have stayed defensive in those two territories, some people of the world, like Trump and like him probably a whole bunch of Republicans, others, would have respected him. If they were already under attack by government forces in separatist regions, he should have waited and provide some proof (however the good people of Russia don't need to show any proof when they're right). But the attack needed to happen on or around 2/22/2022. For attaining maximum paranoia of the world, and that is a Great Conspiracy business. To keep the world under terror.

However, the reaction of the world is mostly illogical, as we are used to. With weeks of paranoia in the news, when rumors of invasion rolled from one day to another, now that it happened, everybody is going after their business. Market went up 3% from its lowest (NASDAQ 6%) today when Biden announced US will not get involved. Why, are they scared of the hyper-sonic missile? Then why the market went up? Just because now they believe Putin won't use them? There are weapons, like particle weapons, reasonably cheap, (invented by Nikola Tesla), mostly defensive, much stronger than those or any missiles, but nobody even wants to talk about. Why? Because they are not so scary, at least during peace times.

I remember how the war in Iraq started. The allies bombed first all airfields and airports with missiles and Saddam could not raise one single plane. Did Putin wanted to take his revenge, copying and pasting that type of strategy used on that Soviet Union's former ally? That seem childish. Or maybe he wanted to show the world how that felt back then to Iraqis? But why did they occupy Kuwait in the first place? To show the world its own foolish addiction to cheap oil?

Soviet Union and its allies, as well as US didn't win any war after WWII. Both retired inconclusively from Afghanistan. US left Iraq in chaos, allowing ISIS to be created in the process, which was reused in Syria. Korea ended divided. Never heard anybody saying US have won in Vietnam though we see Vietnam made clothing in stores. Syria, a great human tragedy. All they did was fight in each of those wars for many years, loosing who knows how many people. Inconclusively.

And now Ukraine seem to be bouncing back after most of its military infrastructure "was destroyed"? Has Putin shied off when he saw the sanctions and/or the reaction of the world and his own people? Didn't he know precisely all these would happen? Could he be so short sighted? He must have had something in his head if he gathered all that wealth and came to leadership in one of the great countries of the world?

My opinion? my opinion is they are staging the beginning of the end of Russia as we know it and mostly as we don't know it (no there is not Britney Spears of Kim Kardashian or even Oprah over there), if Ukraine starts to "bounce back" from the first strike as we already began to see, while having Europeans shaking their pants off in the process. Or at least a few serious steps back. Puting her back even further away from the civilized world before chewing her in.

4:30 Just went and added on solid brass connector and hooked the old one to it. Though i added one more contact, it is very solid, with two threads holding it. Brass on copper. The critical is the lead on brass one i just added. It has a bigger bolt and nut and much more connection power than the feeble copper one i just moved downstream. This battery is leaking, at least vapor, and the old connector, now just hanging there, was covered with a thin layer of oxide. Tomorrow i get the positive connector which is very similar (in shape) with the current feeble copper one, and i will put it in together with the new battery, the existing one is 5 years old. You can see in this picture the old connector hanging there unused, hooked at the end to the new one.

While doing so. Two or three helicopters passed. 3 kids as tall as i passed by, Japanese, as tall as me, one of them had a Walmart thick plastic bag and was making thunderous sounds by wrinkling it. Though heading towards building, one of them took the other way around the car, "surrounding it". Then 2 F15 fully armed with rockets and bombs flew by. Then the guy with the rice business (he's now having a newer van, with a firm name on it "Bags Inc.") started the van and let the smell of exhaust chase me away.