I guess they have to attack the source and writer ahead of time now because attacking the facts is obviously not working.

That feint your ignoring could be the real attack.

Any attack into Russia proper tends to move defensive units away from the front.

I suggest that you spare us your planned article about the Ukraine War because I can tell you in advance (based on your previous articles on the subject) that it will be pretty much worthless. They are simply unable to understand, for whatever reason (I suspect ideological delusion) what is going on in the war, what kind of war Russia is waging and that is for Ukraine (and by extension the US), the war has been lost for some time. They prefer to take the path we know you take, which is to simply be ignorant and give in to the propaganda and lies presented in the US media rather than question these things.

Ray Van Dune: The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which runs this website, is an excellent source of credible information about all major conflucts going on worldwide. In the case of the Ukraine, however, you must always recognize that it favors the Ukraine and wants Russia defeated. It reports events accurately, but often spins things in that direction.

For example, its reports will provide a lot of information about the Russian military, its forces inside and around the Ukraine, their placement, their strategies, their quantities. This is good informantion. ISW however almost never provides any similar military details about Ukrainian forces or positioning. This lack is clearly to protect Ukrainian interests.

If you view ISW as comparable to American reporting during World War II, you will benefit. The reporting is honest, but it without doubt favors one side over the other. And in both cases — then and now — I believe that favoritism was and is for good and moral reasons.

My impression is that Ukraine may be doing better than is being reported in the western media, but that it is hardly “winning”.

For example the Russian Black Sea Fleet seems to have been heavily constrained in its range of operations. However, the relevance of this fleet’s power may have been overestimated by Russia anyway, and may have actually been a convenient distraction from Russia employing its overwhelmingly strong landward position to the East.

The attacks on Leningrad and Tula may likewise indicate a Ukrainian willingness to turn away from a Crimean focus, toward attacking Russian military infrastructure proper.

Ray Van Dune: Your comment on the Ukraine war I think suggests to me that it is time this week for another update. Most coverage today continues to view the war through narrow lenses, thus giving I think a distorted view.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-21-2024