> why would you even watch this [person’s] videos analysing Ukraine war?
Because that was how you began life.
Your parents (and later/lesser, primary school teachers) were the source of answers on nearly everything.
There’s probably something quite natural about transferring a belief of being competent/knowledgeable in one area into some expectation of the same in another area. It's the underpinning of the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy.
It certainly works in the opposite direction: someone whom you know to pontificate out their backside on one topic, that expectation holds for the next, randomly chosen topic as well.
Because that was how you began life.
Your parents (and later/lesser, primary school teachers) were the source of answers on nearly everything.
There’s probably something quite natural about transferring a belief of being competent/knowledgeable in one area into some expectation of the same in another area. It's the underpinning of the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy.
It certainly works in the opposite direction: someone whom you know to pontificate out their backside on one topic, that expectation holds for the next, randomly chosen topic as well.