I'm not going to comment on the war as such other than saying that anbody who read the Clash of Civilizations twentyfive years ago and didn't buy into Fukuyama's bullcrap knew that eventually this would go down, the specifics of how it started not withstanding.
What bothers me is how shit the German news coverage, whether it's the state channels or the private "news" channels like NTV, has been so far most likely will continue to be. Quite frankly, I watched NTV with my wife for two and half hours yesterday, and they weren't able to come up with half the information (true or fake) that had been gathered in this thread up until that time.
This is a real shooting war. I want military experts on TV. I want to know who is fighting where, I want to know where the front lines are, I want to see the combat footage and vids of troops in motion. I want talks about what the likely course of action is. I want to know how we will react to this, how it will influence Germany's military policy. Hell, I want to know if our glorious government might actually get their heads out of their collective asses about energy dependence and the whole green energy fiasko.
German state media receives more than 8 billion Euros p.a. in funding. And all I get for this is cut sound bites that tell me absolutely nothing about the state of the war, but only manage to highlight the incompetence of our leaders and media "professionals". I shouldn't need to go to Tiktok and Twitter to get that kind of info.