Bernd 02/28/2022 (Mon) 02:42:09 No.46747 del
>>46724
>Even in Russia the govt. not just quite about what's happening, but they discouraged/banned media outlets from talking about war or invasion, or assult and whatever. There is no propaganda going there depicting successes, the heroes of the fight, or how the enemy is evil.
I can also see the Russians are a lot less talkative, while the Ukrainians constantly push dubious casualty numbers and war heroes. The Russians did seem to have used misinformation a lot during the first day, when there were rumors of landings near Odessa and the like. Now what they can show are continuous territorial gains, at some point the easternmost Ukrainian forces in Kharkov and the Donbass will be at risk of being cut off by Russian advances to their west.

What the Russians failed to achieve so far is a breakdown of the Ukrainian military, it's still a cohesive fighting force. This would come from a combination of demoralization and the neutralization of command and control, logistics, air defense capability, etc. On the morale side, it depends on whether belief in a righteous cause exceeds disbelief in the odds. Disbelief in the odds might not even have set in, or at least propaganda is doing a lot to prevent it. Belief in the cause might have been underestimated; in this regard, the historical consistency of Ukrainian nationalism is irrelevant, what matters is if people believe it. History itself might be irrelevant, what matters is if there's enough tribal, us-them sentiment.