Bosnia is going to humiliate Russia in a war, too?
I would warn that Åslund is no expert, but apart from that much of what he says there is probably true. But salt needed.
Thom Nichol’s perspective
One of the most stupid (imo, of those I have read) Pro Kremlin propagandists with this nonsense:
Those claims of two weeks are somewhat grandiose, particularly without any substantive detail. UKR military activity is stepping up, but the gains so far have been localized, with the main effect being to maintain an unsustainable level of friction on Russian forces. The real telltale will be a major retreat by the Russians, or the isolation of a significant force in a pocket. Right now, that doesn’t seem imminent - but at a lower level, a large number of Russian formations are effectively isolated, at the end of threatened and already inadequate logistics chains and without secure communication. At some point, the Russian high command just isn’t going to be controlling those forces. It is very hard to know what that is going to look like, but the parallel that is coming to mind is the 100 Days at the end of World War 1 for the German army.