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Where do you think propaganda comes from exactly?

by tus666 4y ago

MilnerRoute 4y ago
A Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews also seems to think Russia is exhausting its combat capability. (Interesting Twitter thread...) https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1541036376703090689 https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/15410363767030906... The strategic studies professor says "the Russians are only making an effort in a very small area of the line.... This scaling back is a sign of failure. The Russians have shown no ability to make and exploit a breakthrough in the Donbas (indeed I haven't seen anything worthy of being called a breakthrough in the whole battle). They make small, incremental, expensive advances. "Russian failure has led them to 'recalibrate' their entire plan and add very limited objectives. They have finally achieved one (seizing SDonetsk) but compared to where we were on April 18, this was probably the least ambitious objective Russia could have set.... The Ukranian withdrawal from Severodonetsk is not some great 'strategic' victory for Russia. It does not effect in any way Ukraine's ability to regenerate force and keep fighting the war. At best its a tactical adjustment." "Also worth pointing out that there are signs of a growing Ukrainian resistance movement behind Russian lines."
- tus666 4y ago
  When you hear the words "Strategic Studies" you should immediately think of CIA linked think tanks and the like.
  - ksaj 4y ago
    I can't count how many times I've already heard how Russia only has X amount of money left, Y amount of soldiers left, Z amounts of capacity left. Sure they originally thought it would take 3 days. BUT every "estimation" I've heard of how long Russia can sustain this keeps going past, and new limits are invented and presented as "fact" shortly thereafter. tus666 has nailed it. You just have to look at all the other projections over the past few months and it is pretty clear. The claims that this will likely be a protracted, expensive, and globally painful war seem to be the only ones that have continued to appear accurate.
    - Arnt 4y ago
      You say that wrt. https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien — would you mind giving some examples?

Where do you think propaganda comes from exactly?

by tus666 4y ago

Where do you think propaganda comes from exactly?

A Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews also seems to think Russia is exhausting its combat capability. (Interesting Twitter thread...) https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1541036376703090689 https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/15410363767030906... The strategic studies professor says "the Russians are only making an effort in a very small area of the line.... This scaling back is a sign of failure. The Russians have shown no ability to make and exploit a breakthrough in the Donbas (indeed I haven't seen anything worthy of being called a breakthrough in the whole battle). They make small, incremental, expensive advances. "Russian failure has led them to 'recalibrate' their entire plan and add very limited objectives. They have finally achieved one (seizing SDonetsk) but compared to where we were on April 18, this was probably the least ambitious objective Russia could have set.... The Ukranian withdrawal from Severodonetsk is not some great 'strategic' victory for Russia. It does not effect in any way Ukraine's ability to regenerate force and keep fighting the war. At best its a tactical adjustment." "Also worth pointing out that there are signs of a growing Ukrainian resistance movement behind Russian lines."

tus666 4y ago
When you hear the words "Strategic Studies" you should immediately think of CIA linked think tanks and the like.
- ksaj 4y ago
  I can't count how many times I've already heard how Russia only has X amount of money left, Y amount of soldiers left, Z amounts of capacity left. Sure they originally thought it would take 3 days. BUT every "estimation" I've heard of how long Russia can sustain this keeps going past, and new limits are invented and presented as "fact" shortly thereafter. tus666 has nailed it. You just have to look at all the other projections over the past few months and it is pretty clear. The claims that this will likely be a protracted, expensive, and globally painful war seem to be the only ones that have continued to appear accurate.
  - Arnt 4y ago
    You say that wrt. https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien — would you mind giving some examples?