I listen a fair bit to Mark Galleoti's podcast, In Moscows Shadows - spotify he spoken a fair bit about how paranoid Putin's getting.

I reckon its also just how old he is, isn't it a thing that people retreat from the world more and more as they get proper ol'codger-like.

Anyway, I saw this, but didn't have the 20-30 minutes to spend on it. Was it good?

ngl it's very long and it gets a bit boring towards the end

I prefer this one

So, the Russians have hardly advanced this summer, have probably lost more land than they have gained in the last few months, are losing considerably more soldiers every month than they can generate and are facing some pretty serious internal questions about how to find more soldiers.

What we are seeing is a summer offensive of failure.

https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/the-russian-summer-offensive-is-a-failure-so-far/