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Nothing is going right this weekend, my son won't be coming home, my daughter and her fiance won't be coming but thankfully my wife will be coming home when I don't know, so it'll be only four people this weekend, quiet and peaceful until next weekend when I hope that everyone will be home. There is also nothing going right for Putin and his pockets, thankfully the Ukrainians are hitting his oil refineries hard which also helps them because without fuel then Putin can't resupply his forces which is terrific news. It's great that the help from the west has finally started to arrive, better later than never and if there wasn't so much corruption in the Ukrainian government then all the help would go to the men fighting on the front lines, the idea of sending someone from the west to monitor where the help is going is a great idea and should be put into place as soon as possible, the soldiers and people are suffering  on all fronts so as soon as they get the weapons that they need then less lives will be lost and perhaps Ukraine can start once again to push the red army back where they belong and then the people of Russia won't be so happy with their dictator Putin as much as before. Well that's all for today as I have to get everything ready for dinner and when my wife arrives, sorry it's so short today but some things are more important than my blog, so if you enjoyed reading todays blog then like, follow and share. Thank you. 

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