Russia and Ukraine

[Belacqua]

Tulsi Gabbard tweeted this just now:


She's the Director of National Intelligence.

This points to a contradiction that we hear a lot:

1) Russia is incompetent, all of its good soldiers have been killed and they're sending unmotivated office staff to the front, their weapons are all gone and were inferior anyway, it can't do military strategy, and

2) Russia is an imminent threat to Europe.

But again, any statement from "the intelligence community" should be taken with extreme skepticism.

No matter how incompetent (and as war shows answer is really, really incompetent) putler jackboots are they still can kill civilians and damage infrastructure. There is also propaganda to consider so russia while inept in general still might be threat.

Can you link me to a recent book or article explaining why Russia will collapse soon? I'm genuinely curious about what you're reading.