I thought that was a pretty good vanity, keep them speculative and informative on what you believe you are hearing, and they can be useful.
I’m more interested in what you get from the Russian online chatter (is that Telegram?) than from Scott Ritter, Ritter is always going to promote propaganda, period, like reading a democrat politician’s press releases, it will always be the same ‘spin’ with no insights, and won’t be useful.
The HIMARS stuff and the rules of engagement changes are part of the Russian online chatter on Telegram…everything else is either Ritter or both Ritter and online chatter. Both online chatter and Ritter say Russia lost very few troops in the counter attack.
There are an increasing number of graphic images on Telegram that I am viewing of Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilian collaborators being shot in the head…this will be the basis for the change in the rules of engagement. I believe that Putin is very much doing a political dance to affect this change. This dance in some ways reminds me of Bush pre-Iraq war.