Jin, if you are wondering why your readership may have dropped off, let me offer a suggestion. I'm a 76-year old senior software architect, combat veteran (US Army captain), and lifelong student of history and politics. Here’s what I think is happening.

You are obviously intelligent and articulate. It appears to me that you often choose topics that are interesting and clickable, but for which you have too little real-world experience and training. That leads you to make statements that are incorrect or unsupportable by logic or facts.

I began following you because I enjoyed your insights into technical topics for which you had meaningful knowledge to share. I stopped reading you because too often you wrote about topics, for which you did not have real knowledge to impart, merely because they would draw clicks.

This post is an excellent example of that. The war in Ukraine is a complex topic with which some of the best military and political minds in the West have been struggling. Please explain to me why I should waste my time reading amateur opinions on the topic.