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>It's a mess. It's barely day 4 with misinformation and fog of war everywhere. There aren't much useful info to extrapolate from other than RU has committed ha

>It's a mess. It's barely day 4 with misinformation and fog of war everywhere. There aren't much useful info to extrapolate from other than RU has committed half to two-thirds of low/medium tier units while being fairly restraint in not massacring fellow slavs. Departure from past RU war atrocities - almost kid gloves compared to how western wars (including those prosecuted by RU) slaughter brown people in the ME. Even the internet is still up. RU's massive artillery parks aren't levelling villages and they've barely expended 200 missiles or used much precision munitions (assuming they have any). All capabilities PRC has in abundance. If there's any lesson to be learned, it would be not to half ass for optics. Western reporting and social platforms seems to have gone full koolaid regardless. And perhaps seriously think about preemption, instead of letting weapons flow in for for weeks while posturing.

x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
I think you're right about the information war kool-aid. If you look at everything in Western outlets from CNN to Funker530, you would think the Ukrainians are standing toe-to-toe and that the invasion is super sloppy.
- dirtyid 5y ago
  Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, recapturing of Hostomel, downing of 2 IL76s full of paratroopers, death of Magomed Tushaev, UKR leading K:D ratios like war is videogame... unending stream of fake memes and unverified suspicious allegations to push narrative that sloppy invasion = end of Putin, when we're only 4 days in and it doesn't appear RU has taken gloves off. Feels like the information war is currently hotter than the real one, similar to the insane amount of biased coverage for the HK/Belarus protests received in western media, but at the end of the day, I surmise we'll find out shitposts that instills false confidence don't mean much in a shooting war, because ultimately, "power is power".

x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago

I think you're right about the information war kool-aid. If you look at everything in Western outlets from CNN to Funker530, you would think the Ukrainians are standing toe-to-toe and that the invasion is super sloppy.

dirtyid 5y ago
Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, recapturing of Hostomel, downing of 2 IL76s full of paratroopers, death of Magomed Tushaev, UKR leading K:D ratios like war is videogame... unending stream of fake memes and unverified suspicious allegations to push narrative that sloppy invasion = end of Putin, when we're only 4 days in and it doesn't appear RU has taken gloves off. Feels like the information war is currently hotter than the real one, similar to the insane amount of biased coverage for the HK/Belarus protests received in western media, but at the end of the day, I surmise we'll find out shitposts that instills false confidence don't mean much in a shooting war, because ultimately, "power is power".