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- Embed this notice@mloxton @feld prior war propaganda told you that the Russians are in a desperate situation, which makes sense of this new war propaganda. They're desperate, so they're resorting to dumb tactics, so they're taking great losses, so (propaganda aim:) you feel better about supporting the winning side, the non-desperate side, the side that doesn't have blocking units that prevent frontline units from retreating, the Ukrainian side.
That's all revealed by "resorting to".
In reality:
1. Russia's been obviously winning for a long time now and aren't remotely close to "resorting to" anything, especially in comparison to Ukraine
2. Ukraine has blocking units. Less now since they were thrown into Kursk. Syrsky ran some himself in the Donbass.
3. this new war propaganda therefore should strike you as much less believable, at best a result of some really lucky tactics on the Ukraine side, but certainly not something that should budge your opinion on Ukraine a single degree from "it's already over and the west is just bribing the leadership to sacrifice more of the population at least long enough to not affect the US election"