{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/d1a6ddca-f102-4b5c-8d87-630132fe5aaa/6275b55fe9dc4c0016603ead?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Russia Invades Ukraine VI: We've Always Been at War With Eurasia","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/614dadb9772a06c8466159a2/1651881206093-e7bf082227048b6ef41e9fd874276e04.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What happens when you start really believing your own bullshit?</p><p>What happens when you’ve created a yes-man bubble where everyone only tells you what you want to hear?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>First a war update:</strong></p><ul><li>Russia’s focus on the east and Donbass, which started a month ago, has made a bit of progress in a few places, but is now pretty stalled</li><li>They do seem to be regrouping from Mariupol, but they’ve also been going into a meat-grinder</li><li>Ukraine has made marginal advances towards Kherson and away from Kharkiv</li><li>SOMEHOW, Mariupol’s troops still stand in the Azovstal steel plant despite months of constant bombings and stormings -- there’s really nothing like it in modern military history (Alamo has absolutely nothing on it, not even a tiny bit close)</li><li>It REALLY seems like the vast majority of Russian attempts to advance are getting repelled, and that is going to grind them down and make them combat-ineffective</li><li>…and now Ukraine is getting tons of heavy weapons:</li><li>Tanks</li><li>Big, advanced howitzers</li><li>Radar systems to aim at Russian artillery</li><li>Rocket artillery</li><li>Drones</li><li>This is going to help them dislodge low-morale Russian troops and drive offensives</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Visit ReConsiderMedia.com</p>","author_name":"Erik Fogg"}