Or the truth is Ukraine is loosing the war and about to get beaten badly in spite of your support for them.
Just watch."
Sure, I totally "get" that, it's why we must assume that any information coming from Russia is misdirection, intended to deceive us.
And I'm pretty sure that includes anything posted on Free Republic by Russian bots, like stockpirate.
But just because everything pro-Russians post is necessarily intended to deceive, does that make it necessarily false?
You see, that's the great question, first posed circa 550 BC by the ancient philosopher, it's known as Epimenides paradox.
You see, Epimenides, a man from Crete claimed that "all Cretans are liars", and the philosophical question is: how can that statement be true?
The answer, of course, is, we must discount whatever a Cretan or pro-Russian says until the truth is independently verified or refuted.
As for Russia and Ukraine, the basic ground truth is that Russians outnumber Ukrainians, three to one, and outweigh Ukraine's economy by something like six to one, or so we think.
But with substantial aid from Western Democracies, Ukraine has stood up to Russia so far, and we don't yet know what the upcoming "spring offensives" will bring.
So we stay tuned...