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Originally Posted by pip08456
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This is very true, however the story’s appearance in the mainstream media 50 days in to the war really underscores how reluctant journalists have been to listen to anyone other than the same experts who all predicted the war would end in capitulation after 3 days.
Strategic studies academics were pointing out the tyre issues in some of the earliest photos from Ukraine, within a week or 10 days of the war beginning. These pieces of evidence, and others like them, are the reason some of these people have been so ahead of the game in predicting Russia’s difficulties. Unsurprisingly, these are the same people who are saying that no matter how much Russia may want to take Dneipro or encircle the Ukrainian army in Donbas, it simply doesn’t have enough men or equipment available to do so. Yet at the moment, the BBC and others continue to publish maps with bold red arrows implying that the war is still all Russian movement and progress.
If you use Twatter at all (and I didn’t, prior to this), then follow Phillips P O’Brien, Dr Mike Martin and Shashank Joshi for starters.