Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently been physically separating himself from staff and other world leaders with big tables. (AP: Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo)
Carrington Clarke and Peter Jones, ABC News Australia: The US anticipated almost every move Vladimir Putin made in Ukraine. This is how they probably did it
While the United States did not stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration seemed to see it coming in extraordinary detail.
In the weeks leading up to the invasion on February 24, as Russia amassed troops and hardware on its neighbour's borders, senior US officials warned an attack was imminent, despite repeated Kremlin denials.
As Russia menaced Ukraine from afar, even the Ukrainian government at times dismissed the build-up as bluster rather than a precursor to war.
Reporters asked US President Joe Biden why he was so convinced that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had decided to invade Ukraine.
"We have a significant intelligence capability," he responded simply.
Mr Biden also claimed to know exactly what Mr Putin had in the pipeline — down to specific dates.
It was as if US intelligence services had tapped into the mind of a foreign leader notorious for guarding his secrets.
So was the US bluffing or did it really know what Russia had planned?
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WNU Editor: A lot of speculation in the above post.
They "anticipated" every move yet when we make the effort to get past the Zelensky fan club it becomes obvious Zelensky and America are losing and losing badly at this juncture. Perhaps the "spy" fed them what they wanted to hear and see.
ReplyDeleteWith that said this shooting war is only a little more than a month old. It's to early to know the ultimate outcome.
With that said right now it's not locking good at all for Zelensky or Ukraine. Frankly they chose their friends poorly at the start. To turn one's back on true friend former POTUS Trump to follow those of questionable character was a colossally bad choice. To flippantly reject the wise counsel of people like Naftalie Benet seems indicative of rash and impulsive childlike minds who probably shouldn't be allowed to manage their own affairs without adult supervision much less be in charge of an entire country.
Of course Ukraine was a corrupt basket case before the shooting war. With wisdom and tact they could've avoided this war altogether!!
With tact and wisdom you could have avoided verbose mendaciousness.
ReplyDeleteWith wisdom and tact wars can be avoided. Explaining complicated concepts generally can't be condensed into talking points.
DeleteThis sounds like a story planted to sow confusion among the russians. Is there a spy in Putin's inner circle?Possibly but I'm gonna go with the more logical probability. SIGINT that showed clear intent to attack. A spy that close to Putin would not survive for very long unless Putin wanted him to survive.Its very hard to avoid being detected at that level since all your movements are tracked 24/7.
ReplyDeleteLot of speculations, and only from a side. Its also possible that Putin know the spy.
ReplyDeleteIs not that the Ukraine is corrupted; is a fully nazi-liberist country, when the political power is dominated by local olygarchs like Poroshenko and Kolomoisky (sponsor of Zelensky) and the police and army in the hands of neonazists that menace and attack oppositors to the regime (see Humans Rights Watch and others on annual reports).
That scum is always feed by western liberists as usual, and they know how to push Putin to react exactly starting a war.
For example, search about Andriy Parubiy, an ukrainian self-declared neonazist and his power and responsabilities behind the worst acts made by the post-Maidan regime.
Also Putin know that a muscular confrontation is not avoidable, but instead to force NATO to break is own rules, he choice a preventive war to end now the crumbling old order.
Two dispotic far-right powers clash on the flesh of common people.
Is truly early to know the outcome of war, but for now we don't see a real popular army in support of Ukraine defence. I search videos for hours but only few of 4-5 men with depressed faces, distant from the images of many with pride, rage or hope depicted on their faces of real civilian army that fight for their home.
Radical Left aid refugees and want peace, but some side with Russia in hope to end quickly and because Putin don't leave without a political victory; some criticize Putin war but oppose the western aid of army because only prolongue war (and do not want a victory of the Kiev regime). For many is a real sufference in our hearts, despite we know is no more URSS, oppose Russia after only two years ago they come in aid in the darkest hour of Italy, is a crack in the soul, and not only of the communists. Hate for NATO hawks like Biden is rising.
Hope for a popular socialist army that kick out both nazi-NATO puppets and Russia army of the new tzar, but without an external strong support is not possible. We don't see a real "home" in this theater of war.
We are in the middle of what Antonio Gramsci described inside fascist prison before WW II: "the autority crisis, when is not more executive, but only dominant" "That crisis consist in fact the old is die, and the new cannot be birth, in that interreign the most various morbid phenomenons occur".
Putin fears an Operation Valkyrie. Beware of one eyed officers with big briefcases.
ReplyDeleteInsults is all you have. An actual analysis of the situation would be an improvement. I would have suggeated the Trunp appeuzcg to diplomacy here. This war could have and likeky would've been avoided. No, Ukraine does not deserve to be bombed. America didn't deserve 911 either. As for our government's numerous and fruitless foreign military operations around the world, they undermine our interests and cause needless suffering.
ReplyDeleteFor encouraging sensible policies makes me honorable. If we follow the editor links and analysis, we know pretty well this isn't going well for Ukraine. Based upon this serious people have issued recommendations.
I had read this morning that a cancer doctor follows Putin around consistently. Wonder what that means.
ReplyDeleteYoung Communist still has not figured out that he can live as a communist in any Western country. A group of people incorporate. The corporation holds the land and has contracts with other people or corporations.
ReplyDeleteFor dim bulbs like YC, an agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law. In this case for buying and selling things. Inside the communist corporation everyone lives by "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". I think that part really, really give YC the willies. He has little ability and would demand many, many needs and wants. He'd be kicked out in short order.
Eventually, if a Communist corporation was efficient it could by everyone out in a village, then a town then a city, then a region and then a whole country.
It is doable. I read of a commune in New Zealand. There is one in Virginia. The Virginia commune does not pay equal wages. They found out that people absolutely would shirk or refuse sanitation work unless paid m more. But they tried, which is more than can be said for the whiner YC. West of the Mighty Mississippi there are scores of communes, if not few hundred.
To reiterate YC is actually afraid of living in an actual communist society. What YCC wants is push over revolution with the result of YC being part of the leadership or at the very least and auditor. They want a sinecure.
YC is trite and shallow.
Anon at 10.48 has not figured out that a communist cannot live in actual "democratic" Ukraine unless at risk of life.
DeleteAnd that a real communist is not like the masters of that anon, with endless greed as much they gain profits, care nothing of the poors used and trown away.
And that anon clearly can't understand their masters use and trown away entire countries when figures insane profits from that. Contracts or not.
B Poster burning the midnight oil and his pro-Russian commenting until 10 AM.
ReplyDeleteWhenever does he have itme to do complete people's tax returns.
There are 24 hours in a day and I typically sleep about 6.
DeleteHis clients bank offshore: Moscow
ReplyDeleteOf course there's a spy among his inner circle. Think corruption in Russia is limited to just the lower ranks? The US would offer millions if not more to crucial Intel providers.
ReplyDeleteSame the other way around. When trillions are at stake, millions if not billions are made. Left overs. Crumbs.
Surrender Bolshevik savages or be a obliterated!!
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ReplyDeleteSTFU
You are ignorant or you are trolling. Regardless you are a stupid fuck.
https://www.twinoaks.org
"We do not have a group religion; our beliefs are diverse. We do not have a central leader; we govern ourselves by a form of democracy with responsibility shared among various managers, planners, and committees. We are self-supporting economically, and partly self-sufficient. We are income-sharing. Each member works 42 hours a week in the community's business and domestic areas. Each member receives housing, food, healthcare, and personal spending money from the community."
That is just one example among many. They have been around 40 years. other groups are much bigger and are expanding.
If you trolling for a government you have done such a bad job you will have to service your boss. Price of failure