You may want to swing by the actual invasion thread in the War Room to see how hilariously bad things have gotten for Russia supply wise; they are yanking 50's era, unmodified t-55s out of their boneyards and out of museums because the Russians cannot build many, if any, of their more modern tanks anymore, due to being dependent on foreign parts for the fancy bits.I've been hearing nothing but propaganda a out how bad Russia is losing for over a year now. Yet the war wages on. If they were losing anywhere CLOSE to as bad as all that propaganda said, they'd be utterly fucked at this point.
Shit, Russia cannot even make it's own tank-grade ball bearings anymore.
And you seem to have forgotten the 'rapid' wars of the past 30 years the US has been involved in are the exception, not the norm to warfare. Russia has help on because they are literally throwing everyhting at Ukraine, including their few good/professional units (VDV, Spetnaz) that will take decades to rebuild and likely won't be rebuilt with Russian demographic issues.
Russian troops rarely even have comms back to there commanders, or if they do they are unsecured walkie-talkies most of the time.
I consider that Russia is lying about 90% of things, and spreading different lies to different parts of the world in a 'throw shit at the wall and see what sticks' methodology.Consider for a second that both sides are lying to you.
Ukraine is obviously not going to tell the truth about where their units specifically are, and will troll the Russians back, while maintaining OPSEC for their troops.
Also, the leaks prove why Ukraine is not telling the US everything it does, because Ukraine knows US intel groups leak shit for partisan reasons all the damn time.
No, there are some rather dependable sources for what is going on in Ukraine, it's just Tucker was absolutely not one of them.We don't really know how it's going in Ukraine, just that we are sending more and more resources over there, to a country and war we should have nothing to do with.
I'd recommend watching Perun's video's, as he is an Aussie, and is someone who backs up all his stuff with sources and sometimes interviews. Also, the Institute for the Study of War is rather dependable, as is Oryx for visually confirmed losses.
I get where skeptisism with the Biden admin and military is coming from, I really do, after the lies about the 2020 election and Jan 6th. And I get wanting to defend Tucker for his efforts towards Jan 6th people and Trump's base/MAGA.
However, the reason I am a 'zealot' for supporting Ukraine is because I have been able to separate my domestic issues with the current admin from the situation in Ukraine, and realize that a lot of people on the Right are really only listening to people like Tucker, and not actually paying attention to the situation on the ground in Ukraine. The Right should be holding Biden's feet to the fire about holding up/slow walking arms and aid deliveries that could save many, many Ukrainian lives (F-16s, Patriot batteries, ATACMS, etc.) and push Russia out even faster.
And really, you're In planefag's discord, there is a lot of info and sources that get posted there in their thread about this war, which don't end up here due to formatting.