When has he been right?
He failed in re Kiev, the attempts to take Kharkiv, the Izyum offensive, the various attempts to break through and encircle Ukrainian forces east of the Dneiper, the Kharkiv offensive and the retaking of Izyum, Lyman, etc., the loss of Kherson and the west bank bridgehead, etc., ad infinitum.
Credibility comes from being right, having a track record, not for sounding plausible. Thats the whole point of being a pundit.
Davydov is no expert or pundit, and he says so. He’s a news presenter. Hes a very good news presenter, abd he puts most of the US ones to shame, accent and all. You can check if what he says is accurate or otherwise. And, moreover, if he calls something wrong he says so.
As for your list of horribles, everything you are piling on there is misstated, exaggerated, are asserted with no evidence, etc. Anyone so minded can generate such a bill of particulars for any country, the US included. Or, for instance, the Polish government of 1939.
The bribery and money laundering thing is particularly egregious, as we do have all the facts on the Biden affair. The fault is all on the Bidens and those parts of the US government that did their bidding. The Ukrainians in government at the time (not the current government), not particularly angelic, were the victims of US corruption, not the other way around.
And the broader record of Biden corruption across many countries puts the situation of Ukraine in context.
Typically if someone puts out stuff they like they are credible and if they don’t it’s cia propaganda…..
If find it amusing how many here when I ask why do you care what someone else says or believes, I get comments like I get enough from the govt I don’t need it here…., so I guess FR is supposed to be their “safe space”
As to monetized sites, agreed so what. The one I really like is complaining about people donating, well it is their money to do with as they wish.
ATP Geopolitics, Perun, and Joe Bloggs are three of my favorite and all are “monetized” and ask for donations, and I see no problem with that.
Finally I wish I was a certain about what I think I know as these people are, must be comforting, yet they are almost always very angry
I have come to FR for many years to get a variety of information and perspectives apparently that is not how it is supposed to be anymore at least according to some