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| Leaks from the Pentagon: Zelensky under the hood, PMC under the nose of the United States |
| 2023-04-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Victoria Nikiforova [RIA] In America, a scandal is gaining momentum associated with a large-scale leak of secret documents from the Pentagon and their publication on social networks. For the most part, this is intelligence that came from agencies such as the CIA, the NSA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency straight to the desk of Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to US media, the leaks look like "hastily taken photos of top-secret documents laid out on a hunting magazine." Apparently, the documents were printed out on a printer, the printouts were taken to a safe place, they were quickly photographed and destroyed. There is one moment that is disturbing in this story. The first photos of the documents were published on the gaming platform Discord on February 28th. However, until The New York Times wrote about it last week, the Pentagon was unaware of the leak. That is, top-secret files were in the public domain for more than a month and no one cared. What is it: the fantastic slovenliness of the American intelligence services and the military, or the deliberate stuffing of disinformation through trusted media? Be that as it may, the publication of secret documents pretty much infuriated the leadership of Ukraine . Firstly, the simply monstrous ratio of losses of Ukrainian and Russian troops since the start of the NMD was announced: the Americans counted them as 71.5 thousand VSE soldiers against 16-17 thousand Russian fighters. Now in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet there is a continuous howl about this: it is, they say, photoshop, and in general "you are all lying." Secondly, a detailed description of the organization of the counteroffensive proves that all military operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are first planned in the department of Mark Milli, and then released to the Ukrainians. The data also contains an approximate calculation of ammunition for the Hymars, and a description of new satellite technologies with which the US military monitors the movements of Russian troops, and a report on the preparation of six brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by March 31 and three more by April 30 - they should become shock counterattack forces. Another interesting thing: American intelligence has information that representatives of the Wagner PMC are planning to work in Haiti to help the local government cope with the lawlessness of local gangs. This will take place "under the very nose of the United States," The New York Times noted offendedly. And here's the funniest part. "Intel indicates that the United States is constantly monitoring Ukraine's top military and political leaders to get a full picture of Ukrainian military strategy," The New York Times tells us. There is, of course, nothing new in this. "The United States is equally watching its enemies and its allies," The Washington Post states dryly. The only thing the Americans regret is that the publication of such information occurred at a very inopportune moment, on the eve of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, when any contradictions between the allies are highly undesirable. Indeed, it was inconvenient. Right on the eve of the much publicized "counterattack," the Ukrainians were told from the only source they trusted what a huge number of people they irretrievably lost at the front - this alone cannot but demoralize. Not only that, they are also given to understand that the Big Brother is aware of everything that Zelensky, Zaluzhny and tutti quanti are doing. No, there were no illusions about this before. But the publication of such information is a big blow to the image of the rulers of the Square, a demonstration that the entire Kiev leadership is tightly and tightly controlled from Washington. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 He retiring, or did the Chinese restaurant finally close the buffet? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-04-12 18:07 |
| #1 straight to the desk of Mark Milley Wonder if that was a factor in his retirement announcement. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-12 07:57 |