Also, Sheerpost and Greyzone are hardly reliable sources on the state of the war. Not only has Ukraine managed to defeat all of Russia's assaults, their counter-attacks have routed Russian forces time and again, they are maintaining at least a 2 to 1 kill-loss ratio, and Russia has resorted to convict soldiers, mercenaries, and antiquated weapons to fill the gaps in their lines. There is no path to victory for Russia, pal. Their only hope is to try and get some concessions out of a peace deal so it doesn't look like a total defeat.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65260672
And perhaps you haven't noticed, but Gen. Milley has been dead wrong from the beginning. His prediction that Kyiv would fall in "72 hours" was his first embarrassment. Now here we are a year later and people like yourself are acting as though he's to be trusted.
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/why-gen-milleys-ukraine-war-prediction-missed-mile
Scott is reading no sources, merely repeating what he hears. You might want to draw a lesson from that because it's obvious you've been duped.
Last, but not least, are you freaking kidding me by posting Blumenthal's speech? The man is a totalitarian apologist who defends the human rights abuses of Russia, China, Venezuela, Syria, including denying the Uyghur genocide and chemical weapons attacks by Assad. Moreover, all he did was repeated the same lines about NATO provocation and WW3.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/04/27/nato-enlargement-is-not-to-blame-for-russias-war-in-ukraine/
Frankly, you'd have to be an idiot to believe this man or the claim that NATO somehow "provoked" Russia. NATO has expanded eastward since 2003 and maintained close ties through the Russia-NATO Council until 2014, at which point Russia broke it off because Putin decided to invade Ukraine!
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/one-more-time-its-not-about-nato/
If you want a real assessment by a UN body on the build-up of the war, you should consult reports from the OSCE, the actual people who were monitoring the situation in the Donbas between 2014 and 2022 (at the behest of the Ukrainian government!)
https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/reports?page=381
They not only noted repeated ceasefire violations by Russian-backed forces and mercenaries, but they were the ones who revealed Russia was first to mobilize troops to the border. And they were hardly alone in that:
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-military-equipment-white-markings/
You've got quite the ego, talking about one-dimensional views and dichotomies. But like all ideological thinkers, you're merely projecting. And while I'm sure you enjoyed these varied and vague sources, they only reinforced your bias. I would be a fool to consider them informative and already know what they have to say.