There is a lot of disinformation and clickbait out there. You have to use discernment. Whatever sources you are using, you have to read between the lines, consider their point of view, consider what makes sense. Consider the evidence of your eyes… but not entirely. And watch the map. Watching the map day by day tells you a lot. But even that is hard to find.
For me, it keeps coming back to, which army is on which side of which border, and whose army is pounding whose cities into rubble.
My sense is that the aftermath of the war will tell the truth. If Donbas and Crimea remain separate from Ukraine, then Russia won. If they are again in Ukraine, then Ukraine won.
Right now, I remember a document our government’s leading intel people said was true “The Trump Russia-gate Dossier”.
Doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in the establishment.