Two people I trust to at least do their best to tell me what's really going on: Sarah Taber who does videos on farming ("Farm to Taber" channel) and Phillips O'Brien who writes and does interviews about Ukraine, Iran, and the murderous idiots who start wars and get so many people killed without really having any idea or caring what they are doing.
Sarah Taber has opened my eyes as to what "family" vs. "corporate" farming is really about (all corporate farms are family farms, if I understand her). Phillips O'Brien likewise has really made me think far differently about what is going on in Ukraine, Iran, and war overall than I did before I started reading and listening to him.
Both of them have also made me see that quite a few analysts and reporters are too often botching things up in writing about these areas. It's a bit disheartening but as a pilot who has seen reporters do a pretty awful job when it comes to airplanes and pilots, not altogether surprising.