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Originally Posted by Chris
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.
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@PhillipsPOBrien Is my go to on twitter as he explains strategy etc in an understandable form and links to relevant articles from others such as the above.
Don't forget he admits he got things wrong in the beginning just as the majority of stategists did. Russia was only a paper tiger but regrded as something else by the west.
Meanwhile.
BBC: FSB asks Russian government for additional funding to bury Russian troops.
The FSB asked the Russian government to increase by 17% the “funding for military burials and tombstones,” BBC reported. Ukraine says 20,000 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Feb. 24.