Here’s a sample of realism with no cheerleading:
Commando raids in Crimea, Sebastopol shipyard burning and demolished, 3 ships destroyed in one raid, S400 air defense system worth $500m destroyed by a Storm Shadow costing <1% of that system, 9 planes worth $1.2bn destroyed by drones costing a few hundred thousand $.
Russian barrier troops shooting their countrymen to keep them from surrendering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6_kApQ6WsQ
More realism: serf armies ALWAYS lose to citizen armies since the Greeks beat the Persians. Russia winning this war means the entire history of the last 2500 years didn't happen.
Here's more realism: Russia always loses without the support of a more technologically advanced and powerful western ally. Putin begging communist king of the DPKR for high dud rate artillery shells shows how weak and desperate Russia is. Perun's Russian defense production data shows why the Russians are taking T-55s from the'50s and '60s and WWII vintage shells out of storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctrtAwT2sgs
BTW, all the German IFVs and tanks you cited as "littering the battlefield" in June have been recovered and repaired. The crews survived. Since then only 5/71 have been lost. https://global.espreso.tv/ukraine-lost-only-5-out-of-71-leopard-2-tanks-during-counteroffensive-crews-survived-media
Crimean War 1.0: Ivan Aivazovsky's Night in Sebastopol painting of the port burning: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/b4/9a/08b49adf4ea86ee02bd6bd9cf5784c11.jpg
Crimean War and Sebastopol siege 2.0: same result as the painting.
From Task and Purpose learn how Ukraine slowly closes the noose on Crimea as the British and French did in 1855–56: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6glE3SmUhqI
Ukraine just took the Boyko oil drilling platforms, which puts Sebastopol within range of Ukraine’s rockets and breaks any possible grain export blockade by Russia once Ukraine installs air defenses and anti-ship missiles on the platforms.
Ukraine's use of AI in seaborne drones will enable them to target Russian ships in Novorossisk while offline even if Musk turns off Starlink again.
The Gilbert Doctorow cited in this Russian useful idiot’s fantasy said: "Today all 47 African leaders are assembling in Russia for highest level strategic talks and deal-making with their Russian counterparts."--Only 17/43 attendees from the previous Russian Africa summit went to this year's St Petersburg event, also attended by the late mass murderer Prigozhin before his mafia hit demise.
More on Doctorow as Putin stooge:
“Here’s one last tidbit from Doctorow’s oleaginous oeuvre. This summer, writing in Russia Insider, he trashed Putin’s liberal opposition; as in much of his work, sneering was his principal rhetorical device. He ridiculed Maria Gaidar, whose father was a pro-free market prime minister under Yeltsin, for relocating to Ukraine to work for Putin opponent Mikhel Saakashvili, and for exchanging her Russian passport for a Ukrainian one. Likewise, he jeered at Ksenia Sobchak, daughter of a popular, pro-liberty St. Petersburg mayor, for taking a job with an anti-Putin TV channel. Throwing around words like “neo-fascist,” Doctorow charged that when these and other high-profile Russians accept employment from critics of Putin — or, quite simply, just move abroad, presumably to escape his thuggery — their motive isn’t a love of freedom but “just money.”
Doctorow concluded his piece by slamming opposition leader and former foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev, who in recent op-eds for the New York Times and Washington Post had dared to criticize Putin’s human-rights violations and to broach the subject of regime change at the Kremlin. Accusing Kozyrev of “courting sedition” and “giving comfort to the enemy,” Doctorow warned in the strongest terms against regime change (“Most of the obvious candidates to succeed to the presidency are far less experienced, far less prudent than the incumbent”) and, without addressing Kozyrev’s actual charges about human rights, suggested he was obviously not “someone genuinely wishes his native country well.”
"Yves Smith" of Naked Capitalism is a Russian disinformation peddler, as is clear from her source: "By Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political analyst who specializes in the global systemic transition to multipolarity in the New Cold War. He has a PhD from MGIMO, which is under the umbrella of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Originally published at his website"
He's as credible as the crypto bros and SBF peddling BTC at $60k and the de-$-ization fantasy.
After the war's over I'll send you my victory party selfie with my Borderlands buddies from Kyiv.
