Literally this lmao, every single day there is a multiple advances on several fronts, in the comments they just talk about few tanks and armored vehicles that Ukraine managed to hit or destroy at best.
When you only have experience in war in video games
They have no fucking idea how modern wars work. Their understanding of battle comes entirely from WW2 larping and video games. Hell, just listen to how they talk about the counteroffensives. They thought Ukraine was going to magically reorganize their decimated military and push all the way to Moscow as if they were the Rohirrim in Lord of the Rings. No thought to logistics, ammunition, nothing.
Totally, and it’s been absolutely hilarious to watch. The funny part is that anybody who’s played RTS games like StarCraft could immediately see the problem with logistics, and reconstituting lost units. Of course these aren’t the kinds of games most people play. :)
What boat?
Ukraine released footage of naval drones hitting a missile boat Ivanovets a few days ago.
Ah, got it. Thanks
How do you follow so many topics, so consistently, all at the same time?
Time stretching technology should be shared with the proletariat!
I follow some channels like The New Atlas on youtube or Peoples Dispatch on Telegram that do a good job of sifting through the news and finding interesting stuff, and chat about news with some friends where we swap interesting stuff we find.
A lot of the news tend to be connected too. If you focus on understanding underlying causes, then you can get an idea of what to look for as well. For example, when the whole economic war with Russia started, the key aspect of it was what sort of stuff was being traded, and how being cut off from that stuff would affect Russia and the west respectively. And once you look at it from that perspective, you can start extrapolating. Europe needs energy, so can they replace cheap energy from Russia, so then you can look up what’s happening in the energy markets, how much other countries can ramp up production, how much it costs to switch from pipeline gas to LNG, etc. And on Russian side, it was mostly high tech goods like phones, laptops, cars. So, you do a similar analysis to see whether Russia can replace that stuff easily or produce it domestically. And then you end up in a rabbit hole of supply chains, where manufacturing happens, etc.
I like to try and build a model of what I think is going on, and then see what I got right and what I got wrong based on how things are playing out. When I end up being wrong, then I try to figure out what I missed, and update my mental model. Having this kind of model gives you an idea what sort of news might be relevant and why, as well as how one piece of news might be connected to other seemingly unrelated news.
