Ironclad logic is good enough for mathematics. It is also good enough for physics, biology, and all other forms of science.
So which of his axioms are you disputing? you now said that you concede the axiom that "people need to eat food".
That is good, we are making some progress.
...Are you
really trying to claim that 'being paid by the government to propagandize' is the only possible way for people who analyze information coming out of intelligence to live?
That isn't 'Ironclad logic,' that is 'dogmatic refusal to focus accept anything you disagree with.'
Let's look at some possibilities, shall we?
1. Hobbyists. A lot of hobbyists go into this stuff because they enjoy it/are fascinated by it. They don't get paid at all, they have a day job/welfare.
2. Literal 'parents basement' types. Plenty of 4channers and the like fall into this category. They've failed to be productive members of society, but out of either permissiveness or genuine compassion, their parents or another member of their family support them, and they have tons of free time.
3. Crowdfunding. Perun is probably the most salient example for the Ukraine war, but plenty of people just post their analysis, then get money thrown at them to support more analysis being posted.
Generally speaking, the people who publicly post their OSINT analysis probably fall into these three categories. Can I definitively state that's true? No, because I don't know those people, and I haven't tried to run background checks on them or the like.
But then, neither has Psihokek, has he? Or if he is, he certainly isn't sharing the information on it, which is what I asked for.
Practically speaking, there probably are a fair number of paid shills out there as well. We know China does this all the time, Russia does it at least some, and I have little doubt some western governments have a budget for this too. This is one of the reasons you shouldn't just uncritically accept a given source of information.
However, by the same token, you don't just uncritically
reject a source of information either, especially not just because you don't like what it's saying.