🧵A few things to keep in mind during the euphoria of overwhelmingly good news in Ukraine. #Perspectives 1: #UAF warriors & civilian support staff are undertaking enormous risk to push this offensive through. I am reminded of the 1448 US soldiers killed on their last day in Vietnam. War is cruel. Many more lives will be ended or changed forever before there is 🇺🇦 victory and peace.

A deep 🧵 on @moporobbie music: I will be taking a brief respite from what has been 6 months of focus on the #RussianInvasion & support for #Ukraine to announce some #MotionPotion stuff. Honestly feeling crappy since 🇺🇦 gets no breaks & very little to hear other than shelling. 2) The timing is awful since 50+ #Azovstal defenders, some of the modern world's most heroic warriors were murdered recently in order to cover up the fact that they had been abused & tortured by the #Russianterrorists. & here I sit, safe & sound in 🇺🇸 posting about music. 😰

Ukraine’s other enemy is 🇺🇸 complacency. A chain I wrote before @WarintheFuture’s fantastic thread on same subject. Mines a bit more 🇺🇸 politics focused and certainly not up to his standard. Worth a read maybe anyway? 🧵 Some famous comedian once said ‘with friends like these, who needs enemies’. Ukraine’s enemy 🇷🇺 is vicious, unscrupulous, cynical and relentless. They play by their own rules and change them without warning. They want to win. Or if not win, then burn the ground behind them. (2)

Russia’s ‘repositioning’ is 💯💩. They flat-out lost the #BattleofKiev and the bulk of their most elite VDV & SpetNaz units destroyed near Irpin (& Hostumel). They retreat in ruin leaving bodies & gear behind.

Let’s not allow FSB spin to diminish Ukraine’s vital victory.
🧵 Especially NW of Kiev where RUS deployed their most elite units, the UAF defense was extraordinary. Also the interdiction and destruction of that eastern thrust (the ‘column’). Holding Sumy & Chernaiv. All this after late repositioning when RUS used Belorussian territory.