Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "NEW Tactic! Musicians Rolling Through BAKHMUT" video.
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Warfare is deception.
This is not about propaganda, but tactic and strategy. Of course your enemy should never know what tactic and strategy you follow, what not only would make both worthless, but quickly a trap for yourself.
Of course you have to know what works.
For example the idea, that Russia informs itself via social media, so just spreading nonsense there would work as deception, is simply stupid. You have to be aware about Russia's surveillance and then try to use this to create deception by fake manveuvres and whatever.
On the other side, Ukraine doesn't have that level of surveillance and on top of that: Russia isn't focussing on one point at all. It build up the whole frontline as fortress, from which it can and partly does attack anywhere.
From this position, it can push focus on Bakhmut via Wagner, since overall: if Ukraine looks around for a weak point, it won't find one, so it is doomed to follow the pressure of Russia which cojmes in the form of Wagner while the heavily Russian Great Wall towers behind those.
Of course for a deep analysis there has to be known more details than that. Overall it is indeed quite clear, that Wagner either drags attention to them for marketing purpose (what would be... questionable...) or as part of the overal strategy.
It's absurd, how there is little talk about the Russian army, the clear main protagonist. Even if you would get rid of Wagner all together, that wouldn't change much. They are a strong strike unit, but they are not the army.
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