Why would Ukraine, who is getting to the point of mobilizing old men, women and students invest so much manpower in the Bakhmut "meat grinder" if it weren't important?

Either they're strategically insanely bad, or it was worth throwing all that people in.

Looking down on the global south is not the wisest approach.

> the world

*Significant chunks of Europe, the US, and AUS/NZ. Not the world.

...and this is what propaganda consumption manifests as.

Very true.

Keeping an organization from being liars and aggressive by sheer threat of nuclear attack is not a point in favor of that organization...

It's the new talking point to keep morale and support up by minimizing the importance of the loss. Notice how it's being repeated over and over now. Somehow it's simultaneously of little importance (despite many figures saying the contrary) and worth dumping loads and loads of soldiers. I think the other narrative to push is that it was meant to be used to "empty military resources from Russia", which is again clearly a point pushed as damage control.

Add a progress bar.

smirks to self smugly