How am I Following the Russo-Ukrainian War?

Pavel Vaverka says:

First of all before my list, as view from the other side (as somebody whose family fight against Nazis and Baderites in Europe). Funny how SS Ukraine division Galicia relocated after WWII to Canada and was free of charges despite obvious crimes in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician) Hey Timothy Snyder says this, Slovaks and my grandfather living back then (I hope he is in atheistic heaven, better he’s not around now when we have https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-policie-v-plzni-resi-diskoteky-s-nazvem-bandera-party-40424283 and other Eastern luxuries). You have to understand the media lied to us about wars since 1991, and it was worse everytime. This time it’s no exception. West is deliberately ignoring billions of people, they are acting like it exists only western Alliance (EU, USA, Japan, Korea). US foreign policy was always horrible.

Nobody took responsibility for Iraq sanctions 1995, killed 500.000 children butcher Albright was proud for it (it achieved nothing, Sadam was still in power, why did they enact sanctions?), see the segment https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deaths-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-madeleine-albright-as-who-she-really-was Nobody took responsibility for unlawful war against Iraq 2003, CIA, army, politicians of USA, UK lied to all. No punishments (on the contrary money and rewards like Blair), and You want me to believe Western media?

Don’t forget Snowden affair and Oliver Stone movie, those Austrian windmills are dangerous, let’s have virus in them, just for case, etc. Assange Wikileaks gave you all about criminals like Nuland and company. USA is governed and ruled by crazy neocons, this “elite” is fulfilling their plan see general Wesley Clarke how he find out their intentions to overthrow 7 regimes. Western media are part of governments now, it wasn’t like this before, remember 60′, 70’s, 80’s. It’s sad to see Seymour Hirsch publish on Substack instead of NYT or elsewhere https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

It will come as shock to You, but before war I have never followed Russian media, or Chinese (here I was only checking cultural policy, system of censorship for movies/series, culture in general, like persecuting Cantonese language writers, etc.). Also I was studying Chinese grandiose plans, like that non-sense with claims for all seas in Asia, building military installations on islands, etc. Few days after involvement of RF I read and saw some RT stuff. It has no importance for me as some Indian media (funny how India is now on the Soros list of another overthrow of regime, because of money, all Soros life and acts are about money for himself). Some were neutral, sympathetic to RF causes to enter the civil war. Some like WION became after critical and neutral truly fully Western…

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran/videos Guys have sometimes impressive guests (forget extermist Chomsky), there are people like Ray McGovern, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Diesen and many others. Duran is really following global news and picking up sometimes unpopular themes like Biden laptop, etc. even if their policy is doing only safe themes, after MSM knows about it. Personal channels of both creators are also interesting, Alexander is deadly serious and concerned, Alex is funny, his segment of clown world is full of black humor (despite actual tragedy of themes covered). Richard Medhurst despite obvious Isreal bias https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst/videos sometimes brings important news (like idiocy of EU to take Israel gas, who is in court with Libanon, instead to support Cyprus and develop our European ally, what elites we have in Brussels).

https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas/videos Forbidden channel by UA, and I wonder why, because there are no Eastern sources, only Western sources (very rarely RF MoD statement). Brian is ex-military from US marine, artillery unit. Great info for military stuff, based on arguments, proof, experience. He’s spot on with many themes, what he said became in many cases reality (like ideas of Western tanks to VSU, or planes, etc., because of logistics, training issues). Andrei wrote some very important books about current state of military stuff, technology, doctrines of war, strategy, tactics https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/ he has videos about how is working AA defence, net-centric warfare, etc.

Very brief, but important is Mark Sleboda https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealPolitickwithMarkSleboda. History Legends https://www.youtube.com/@historylegends/videos is providing also military details, how is the war conducted and believe me no suicidal frontal attacks. Yeah baby, Russians are using tactics, not uráááá forward without concern for losses, btw losses https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/02/13/mediazona-and-bbc-news-russian-publish-further-figures-on-russia-s-losses-in-ukraine 14.000 something, hysterics in global mass media are spewing non-sense like 200.000+

Most daring and very knowledgeable (for Russian, Ukranian sources) is Dreizin report https://thedreizinreport.com/2023/02/22/russian-air-power-mystery-explained/ I think he’s very accurate and selfless, nobody is trying to be a realist and observing things like him. Especially matters like losses. No great victories, ratios for killed is 2:1, VSU-RF (now it seems to 50.000 to 25.000 accoding to Dreizin metric). But I’m not saying all predictions he made manifested in reality. For an example he expected in February/March big push, axis to Lutsk with intention to block Western help and end this war soon. Others predicts end of war for August.

There are still some Western people with sense like brilliant https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare But most media production is in CIA influencing views operation. Rarely they gave truth about economics, politics, like Putin with 99 diseases (only missing is https://jcdb.crudo.cz/index.php?p=r&id=181 You have to do translation by yourself:).
Czech media are very tragic, because except cheerleading, mostly no analysis (CNN is exception, they dare to invite ostracized people), fact checking (their winged motto couldn’t be verified, hey why do You do news anyway? I guess I should be TV seer for media and my predictions would be more precise, than their news…).

Sometimes I’m reading Czech MSM bizzare articles, where author knows right numbers of ammunition/weapons production, RF vs. West, and conclusion is VSU can still win. Let me pause in awe. I know that last mobilized VSU army has 87 000 people, now it is in production. But there is no pool of man to extract (this is the last reserves which could be brought in), and equpiment is missing on platoon level, like radios, boots, etc.). How can VSU win? Learning new maneouvre tactics where You don’t need so much artillery, ammo? What a non-sense (dadaism and surrealism in full glory).

We are really in religious, ritualistic reality of hope, induced by elites and their apparatus. Academic, military scholar Michael Vlahos https://twitter.com/Michalis_Vlahos has excellent observation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kV6gnPBh4 that US waged ritualistic warfare and they have confused this with reality… Cognitive dissonance par excellence. Problem is, that people are paying for this US disease with their very lives and in case of EU citizens with their life standard, wealth. I also like Larry Johnson conclusion, that US army is the most expensive in the world (not the best), but like Lamborgini which don’t run.

Pavel Vaverka says:

I’m really worried, that this war of attrition will be decided by ammo and West is incapable to make a remedy fast. Regarding tanks, Czech Republic sinked so low, that we were refurbishing tanks (T-72) orginally owned by Morocco without their consent and not some money or favour in return. Other countries have nothing, unless NATO wants to dissolve themselves during few months. Because modern equipment has limitations for VSU. I do not deny, that RF failed in some areas, like air war, they aren’t able to eliminate AA defence (but it’s hard, layers of systems, satellites info sees all attempts, radars, batteries are protected from extensive real time operation, which would make otherwise easy to strike them). Yet bombardment is dangerous and continuing. I was personally involved during December in getting acumulator batteries for civilian use, so life is miserable in Ukraine for civilian, more than it was. I wonder how military cope with black outs in electric grid, when repairs, fueling, etc. all is depending on electricity.

Some army commanders of RF are beyond belief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3-5kUwVR80 yet losses weren’t so terrible as West claims, units have necessary equipment. But planning is obviously bad or fulfilling the plan, when they make a sensible tactics, strategy. Deadly mistakes like let the enemy drones have a party above armoured column, that’s suicidal like medieval knights going during rain into mud, into the funnel against English archers… And overall commander is promoted. Evidently something is wrong in the chain of command. I don’t know wherever that piece of work has some connections in army or politics, but he should be removed for incompetence.

Or if there is some weird nationalistic policy, that we need new heroes from other nations. In that case this is a suicidal policy. Unless in future times, he’ll be somewhere behind desk and replaced by some skilled officer. I believe this variant based on Russian traditions, my grandfather lived during Warsava pact times. He told me, that Russians had a motto: and we would be commanding ourselves… This brings me really back a memory. I have in library his works about urban combat and other themes (he was teacher at military academy).

I’m lazy to find it, but American institute or think tank, maybe even some agency wrote months ago a piece, that mobilization was success, equpiment is ready, and being produced. Presence of old tanks (functioning as assault guns – btw news from last May), now again resurfaced as proof Russians are scrapping the barrel. Long defence lines in depth cannot be covered all the time with existing artillery (that’s why are you using old tanks, VSU would be doing the same with Leopard 1), explanation for old APC, IFV is on the way. I don’t know if these are from Luhansk, Doněck battalions (they are using old machines) or fake, actually VSU stuff, but still better than Toyotas, still great cars).

A note, AA VSU defence is efficient, but RF is even much better that’s why NATO has not intervened and people falsely thinks around the world that US has technological edge, times of bombarding states with impunity is over against states like Russia, China, etc. Whole US strategy is old, outdated for current times, ground units are not capable to wage war like VSU. I think, that is indicator for Poland. They are building massive ground army despite the fact, that their AA defence is on the level of Iraqi army 1991 (please check Brian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WbZNXGD2M) Obviously they would be operating under VSU umbrella, they do not want to wage war against Belaurus or Kaliningrad, they would be smashed from the skies there. Try to delivery ammo and fuel, when drones, helicopters, planes can take You anytime. You know I don’t believe West, but that doesn’t mean I have no effort to check out the other side. We don’t have neutral infromations source here.

Last but not least, I think Russians are afraid of losses and big offensive, maybe they are holding back for political reasons. Even if not, they can simply wait for the end of ammo, weapons deliveres. With commanders like in Vuhledar It’s nice to have Geramisov (appraised by Zalužnyj, I need to read his works if they are available) as supreme commander, but even geniously planned operations can go to hell with incompetent front commanders… I see obviously fast way to end war is to take Lutsk, Lvov have reserves for Poland, Finland border or Baltic. That is possible reason why reserves are waiting c.380 000 – 500 000 men. Loss of Bachmut is a blow, but not decisive. Russian HQ seems like cuntactor, but with Byzantine traditions in their mind (and You know Byzantine military history, manuals), and their current situation (can You imagine that Hitler or Stalin would be taking for strategy in count opinions of mothers association, public opinion for losses?) this seems like victory strategy. You surely are remembering book https://www.routledge.com/The-Eurasian-Way-of-War-Military-Practice-in-Seventh-Century-China-and/Graff/p/book/9781138477209