The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
For the eighth time.
In nine months.
‘Orcs’ trainees.
Gathered out.
In ‘orcs’-occupied Ukraine.
Within the range.
Of ‘elves’ best.
American-made rockets.
Within the range.
—and those rockets.
Streaked down.
Inflicting mass casualties.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
That ‘orcs’ commanders.
Continue to conduct.
Training out.
In the open.
In broad daylight.
So close to the front line.
Of ‘orcs’ 33-month.
Wider war on Ukraine.
Speaks to widespread.
Leadership problems.
In the ‘orcs’ armed forces.
—problems that are bound.
To get worse.
In the coming weeks.
As Ukraine intensifies.
Its attacks.
On officers and their staffs.
In addition to.
Bombarding troops.
In training.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
On or just before Thursday.
Around a dozen ‘orcs’ troops.
Piled out of civilian vans.
Somewhere in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
In ‘orcs’-occupied southern Ukraine.
An ‘elves’ drone.
Winged overhead.
Silently observing.
An ‘elves’ HIMARS.
Wheeled, positioned.
No farther than.
57 miles away.
On the opposite side.
Of the front line.
Lobbed a single.
M30/31 rocket.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
The rocket struck.
Within yards of.
The ‘orcs’ trainees.
Peppering them.
The ‘orcs’ trainees.
Peppering them.
And their vehicles.
With lethal fragments.
The drone peered closer.
—and counted.
At least five dead.
Or badly wounded trainees.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
The strike could.
The strike could.
Have turned out.
Worse for the ‘orcs’.
The ‘elves’ gunners didn’t.
Follow up their initial launch.
With a follow-on volley.
—a so-called “double tap”—
Targeting the ‘orcs’ survivors.
The wounded trainees.
And any first-responders.
Who raced in to help.
A devastating double-tap.
HIMARS strike.
In Zaporizhzhia on Sunday.
May have killed dozens of ‘orcs’.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
All the same.
The death toll is.
Growing startlingly high.
As ‘orcs’ commanders continue.
To expose their training platoons.
To ‘elves’ rockets.
In eight strikes since February.
—some in Zaporizhzhia.
Others in Donetsk Oblast in the east—
‘Elves’ batteries.
Have killed hundreds of.
‘Orcs’ trainees.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
The anti-trainee raids.
Are reminiscent of.
A separate bombardment campaign.
The ‘elves’ waged against.
‘Orcs’ command staffs.
In Chornobaivka.
Adjacent to the city of.
Kherson in southern Ukraine.
‘Orcs’ forces.
Occupied Kherson.
For much of.
2022.
Until a swift ‘elves’.
Counteroffensive.
Liberated the city.
That fall.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
As a prelude to.
The counteroffensive.
‘Elves’ gunners targeted.
‘Orcs’ command posts.
In Chornobaivka.
22 times.
In eight months.
“These attacks.”
“Significantly degraded.
The ‘orcs’ ability.
To plan and conduct.
Coordinated operations.”
A trio of.
U.S. Army officers.
Wrote in.
A 2023 article.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
“Some suggest the ‘orcs’ experience.
At Chornobaivka.
And elsewhere can be.
Explained by the ‘orcs’ inability.”
“To overcome challenges.
In professionalism.
Training and communications.”
The American officers added.
The repeated attacks.
On ‘orcs’ trainees.
Indicate these.
Challenges persist.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
It doesn’t help.
Any efforts to reform.
Command processes.
That the ‘elves’ are.
Stepping up.
Their attacks on.
‘Orcs’ officers.
And their staffs.
Just a few days after.
The United States.
The United Kingdom and.
France authorized Ukraine.
To strike inside ‘Mordor’.
With U.S.-, British- and.
French-made munitions.
The ‘elves’ air force targeted.
A command post in.
Western ‘Mordor’’s Kursk Oblast.
With a whopping 10 ex-British.
Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
That raid may have.
Killed an ‘orcs’ general.
And wounded.
A North Korean one.
It should go without saying.
That eliminating senior.
Battlefield leaders.
And their combined experience.
Only worsens.
Only worsens.
An already dire.
Command environment.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
If there’s anything.
That might save the ‘orcs’.
From themselves.
In the coming months.
It could be the January inauguration.
Of U.S. President-elect winner.
He has threatened.
To let the ‘orcs’ do.
“Whatever the Hell they want”.
In Europe—and has signaled.
He may end U.S. aid.
To Ukraine.
That aid has included.
Both the HIMARS.
Launchers and.
Their deadly rockets.
The ‘orcs’ military.
Is still struggling.
To learn from.
Past failures.
*Because I read “Russian Trainees Gathered Out In The Open. A Ukrainian Rocket Streaked Down. This Has Happened Eight Times In Nine Months.” by David Axe on 22 Nov 2024 on the Forbes, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022 on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
Russian Trainees Gathered In The Open; A Ukrainian Rocket Streaked In
