What happens when you start really believing your own bullshit?

What happens when you’ve created a yes-man bubble where everyone only tells you what you want to hear?

First a war update:

• 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
• They do seem to be regrouping from Mariupol, but they’ve also been going into a meat-grinder
• Ukraine has made marginal advances towards Kherson and away from Kharkiv
• 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)
• 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
• …and now Ukraine is getting tons of heavy weapons:
• Tanks
• Big, advanced howitzers
• Radar systems to aim at Russian artillery
• Rocket artillery
• Drones
• This is going to help them dislodge low-morale Russian troops and drive offensives

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