Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Be careful what you pick up on or near a battlefield...

 

There's a video on X.com showing a Russian army officer opening some of the candies and chocolate that have been found in the battle zones in Ukraine.  If you're logged into X, here's the link.  If you aren't a member of X, here's an alternative link that will let you play the video.  The candy is loaded with explosives and a detonator, proving that too many sweets really are bad for you!



There are plenty of comments following the video that are worth reading.  My favorite is from user Bitcoin Wizard - mavensbot:


"I'm starting to think that these processed foods are not healthy."


You can say that again!



Peter


6 comments:

M said...

Typical Russian behavior. You can't gather them up afterwards, but they're just peasants so who cares.

Note their attitude towards mapping minefields.

This is likely to be the attitude of the Ukrainians too though.

Michael said...

Copycat of Israel building a fake company to sell better and cheaper pagers to Lebanon with explosives. Waiting a few years to be the dominate pager company, then le boom.

Crippled far too many Doctors, Nurses and other folks that use pagers for daily employment.

Anonymous said...

No, but remember,

"the Israelis used their magic superspy powers to guarantee that no doctors or other nonmilitary personnel acquired the 'splodey pagers! Only the *definitely bad* guys got the 'splodey ones! Yep! It's geniuth! No one ever considered allowing medical personnel (that are essential for keeping fighters capable of fighting) to have pagers that might hurt them and make them incapable of helping!" (Barely a paraphrase from multiple publications and blogs/comments by sub-midwits and wilfully dishonest commenters)

Are the Russians making this "candy" or the Ukrainians? Because if it's the Russians it's bad, and indefensible, but if it's the Ukrainians it's definitely justifiable and totally okay...for reasons. And if it's both? See previous response.

Anonymous said...

M it's unclear which side deployed these "candies ".

But given a Russian is showing them to us implies the Ukrainians deployed them.

Ukrainian propaganda is quick about pointing out "Russian evil aggression againstcivilians" across All major American mass media.

Thus I think it's a Ukrainian boobytrap.

Michael the anonymous

tsquared said...

I saw those in Afghanistan.

Dan said...

Variations on that tactic have been around for a long time. We did it to the VC in Nam with ammo. A Ka Blam sometimes became a KABOOM.