@dave any good pro-Ukrainain analysis of the war?
not propaganda/hit pieces but sober, logical analysis
Can’t really recommend anything comprehensive, and it would be a lot of reading even if I could. Can you be a little more specific? Are you trying to understand equipment/troop losses? What the frontlines look like? How the frontlines have evolved over time? Why Russia has been so severely underperforming? Why Russia invaded?
@dave equipment/troop losses and explanations of underperformance
I’ve been looking for a good resource that explains the various issues (corruption leading to equipment that wasn’t maintained, absolute shit logistics that led to a 60km-long convoy stalled outside of Kiev for months, conscripts fighting when they weren’t supposed to be, unsecured comms, absolutely failing to do combined arms correctly, etc.) because I really, really don’t want to do my own thread on this. It would take me at least an hour to do properly, and almost no one would read it. Feel free to ping me if I don’t give you a good link or thread in the next day or two.
"General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."
Thomas Jefferson
Dude, you’re quoting a guy that lived in a time when electronics didn’t exist, and information took months to transit. This has no bearing on 2022 when people are uploading footage of strikes on targets mere minutes after they happened.
..or should we ask the Ghost of Kiev what he thinks of it?
@threalist @dave the Ghost of Kiev scares the shit out of me tbh, wouldn't want to be putter rn
