sycasey said:movielover said:
I'm agnostic and keep hearing divergent feedback. Ritter worked for our country in Russia, but I guess you consider him a traitor.
Believe what you want, but it's good to know where people's personal incentives are.
It's very naive at best to assume that anyone who has been on RT would be on the payroll of Russia. People like Noam Chomsky or Chris Hedges were regular guests. Most of he time the perspective of people like them has been shut out from the MSM.
You would be better off widening your Overton Window a bit in an attempt to broaden your perspective. Fact is, the MSM today is heavily concentrated and journalistic standards are far lower than what they used to be a decade or two ago.
This instance above with Ritter on Zaluzhny is actually a very good example of how widening your perspectives leads to being better informed. Ritter has merely relayed Ukrainian army commander in chief Zaluzhny's recent interviews (notably with The Economist) where he was candid enough to acknowledge the following facts:
-Russia's mobilization has been successful, with troops motivated and ready to fight. Furthermore, per Zaluzhny, Russia has further trained reserves of up to 1.5 million troops it can still mobilize.
-Zaluzhny currently has at his disposal only 200,000 troops with military experience, and another 500,000 mobilized untrained conscripts.
-Ukrainian army badly lacks military hardware and ammunition. Zaluzhny requested 300 tanks, 500 cannons, 800 armored vehicles and lots of jets in order for him to be able to mount an attack on Melitopol, which would allow him to cut off the land bridge to Crimea. This is an admission of the fact that Ukrainian military is currently severely depleted, they threw in the kitchen sink with donated FSB tanks and hardware and incurred heavy losses in the recapture of Kherson, which was conducted in open field under heavy Russian shelling.
-Zaluzhny said that without a massive injection of NATO hardware, including hundreds of tanks, Ukraine will soon be defeated.
The last round of NATO hardware sourcing has sourced tank spare parts from Morocco, and 155mm shells from Sudan, pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel.
We're seeing more of Zaluzhny now because Zelensky is a bit over the top, overexposed, and his image is starting to tarnish, even in the West, with him doubling down on the false flag missile attack in Poland where Russia is blamed, in an attempt to trigger an Article 5 NATO response. As well his wife run up a $40,000 bill from just one upscale designer store on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, this made the rounds in the French media - terrible optics for a couple that came to Europe in order to raise funds for Ukraine.
