[aydnina]

If my memory serves me right (and it rarely fails), you are someone whom I have up-voted countless number of times with my old account and occasionally using this one. I am pretty sure you are not an idiot (like many of the top commenters in this forum) who believes that "Ukraine is winning" or "Russia is doing badly in this war" because of ideological reasons, so I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are misinformed.

[_kbh_]

I think if you live in reality it’s pretty undeniable that Russia is doing badly in this war.

Russias man power has been so degraded they had to resort to recruiting people from prisons and forced conscription of Ukrainians in Luhansk and Donbas.

Russias heavy armour has been destroyed so badly that we are seeing T62s rolled out to the front lines. These T62s are so old they don’t even use the 3 man setup that all more modern Russian takes do because they don’t have a autoloader.

Russia is also incapable of protecting territory it has captured. The occupied territories of Ukraine regularly have car bombs and ammo depots explode, Crimea even has Russian air bases spontaneously exploding so much all Russian tourists fled back to Russia.

[aydnina]

The West really needs to work on it’s education system, if this is the level of critical analysis and thought you see in a forum which claims to be above average intelligence.

[_kbh_]

> The West really needs to work on it’s education system, if this is the level of critical analysis and thought you see in a forum which claims to be above average intelligence.

This really isn’t an answer to any of my points, it would be great if you could respond to the substance of the message instead of attempting to attack the person who sent it.

But if you want to think that being into month 6 of a 3 day war is going great I guess that’s up to you.

[aydnina]

Any source I give will be just dismissed as Russian propaganda without evidence; or without consideration of the history, context, how accurate they have been in the past, etc. You only want to read or listen to anyone who screams "Russia bad" or "China bad".

Nevertheless, here is an old article from back in April to get you started - https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukra...

[_kbh_]

The author of that article is at best very unreliable and at worst just straight up Russian propaganda here is a retort to pretty much everything he has said.

https://dailysceptic.org/archive/how-accurate-is-jacques-bau...

It’s also interesting that article as far as I can see does not at all cover the current wars losses, all it seems to do is repeat a bunch of Russian propaganda.

It’s always funny to see Russia trying to involve NATO countries in this war in there propaganda, because it’s okay to lose to NATo where as it’s kinda pathetic for Russia to lose to Ukraine.

[aydnina]

Well thanks for enlightening me. From now on I will only trust NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Guardian and BBC - they are the only truthful and accurate sources in the world today.