A Neutral Evaluation Of Putin’s Invasion

While I’m personally sympathetic to Ukraine, I’m capable of setting aside this bias in the interest of assessing what’s really happening.

Sadly the first casualty of war is always truth, and the English-speaking media’s tendency to cover wars like sports obscures the most important information.

At the start of the conflict, I used the Institute for the Study of War’s evaluations to track movements on the ground.

Unfortunately, its media prominence — most of the maps on CNN or BBC you see are derived from their…