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The Ghost of Kyiv

The Ghost of Kiev Ukraine pilot

Wars seek rallying points, heroes, inspiration, and one day (more or less) into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the defenders have one. They call him The Ghost of Kyiv.

 

No one knows his name, but he is already a legend, at least on the internet. In only a few hours- according to social media, he defiantly took to the skies over Ukraine in his trusty MiG-29 and waged a one-man onslaught against the marauding Russian Air Forces.

According to Twitter and Reddit, the mystery mega-ace now called “The Ghost of Kyiv” singlehandedly shot down “six Russian aircraft” to achieve ace-in-a-day status. According to internet claims, the Ghost of Kiev chalked up six air-to-air kills with no less than two Russian Sukhoi Su-35s, a Russian Su-27 Flanker, a Russian MiG-29 and two Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft allegedly “shot down”. And he’s still fighting, at least according to the internet.

 

There is no actual confirmation that any of this is accurate, and you can’t trust Russia to admit they lost six aircraft in one day, and maybe not Ukraine either. And who exactly is this for, and where is the information being shared? And does any of that matter?

It does!

Russia is looking for a quick demoralizing victory, but early reports suggest Ukraine has no interest in giving Putin anything like that. A rallying point like The Ghost of Kyiv – real or not – will only make it more difficult for Russia to get their incursion off the front page sooner.

And while this is Russia and Putin, I think they’d prefer that.

Obama gave up on Crimea before it happened, and no one seems to care much about that anymore. Putin just took it over, and a few stern words from foreign leaders later it’s part of Russia.

Idiot Biden will say some stuff and play at sanctions, but he’s been funding Putin’s war effort for more than a year and will gladly applaud an end to hostilities whether that is because Ukraine lost, surrendered, or repelled the effort.

Look, Joe, Peace talks make for better headlines than how you a**-raped the American economy.

My mistake, this is all Trump’s doing which means Joe is so incompetent he can’t even prevent the alleged machinations of a guy the left labeled as a fool and a boob, so what does that make you?

Sorry, no questions, we have to plan that new pandemic before the November Elections because we have to protect Democracy. As if Democrats’ ideas on free elections, pandemic policy, and Democracy are dissimilar on paper to what Putin is trying to do to Ukraine. Or in practice.

Oh, one more thing that matters. Russians are not all-in either.

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