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Weekend Update 81: Much of the portrayed Russian success is based on prediction

Weekend Update 81: Much of the portrayed Russian success is based on prediction

What we have seen to now is still a long-way from the success that is being portrayed

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I hope he's right. (I'm very willing to believe that the New York Times's reporting is terrible.) I'd be curious for the views of the military analysts among us, and I know there are many of you ... -
Claire Berlinski

Hi All,

Well its been quite a week. It has seen some of the most doom-laden reporting of the entire war since February 2022 (particularly in the New York Times) with prognostications that Russia is on the verge of a great success. However on the battlefield things are, as usual, hardly moving in the key front of the Donbas. Moreover, in the strategic air…


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