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2023-07-02 Government Corruption

CIA chief on Wagner-Russia dispute: ‘A vivid reminder of the corrosive effect of Putin's war'

[The Hill] CIA Director William Burns said the internal conflict in Russia which saw a mercenary leader turn on Moscow shows the damage Russian President Vladimir Putin has done to his country.

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin spoke out against Russian military leadership for weeks before deciding to lead his forces against it. That open contempt surprised Burns, he said, and will have a lasting impact on the Russian government.

"It is striking that he preceded his actions with a scathing indictment of the Kremlin’s mendacious rationale for the invasion of Ukraine and of the Russian military leadership’s conduct of the war," Burns said at the Ditchley Foundation in Oxfordshire, England on Saturday.

"The impact of those words and those actions will play out for some time — a vivid reminder of the corrosive effect of Putin’s war on his own society and his own regime," he added.

Burns, who previously served as a U.S. ambassador to Russia, made a secret visit to Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in late June, according to reports from The Washington Post. His visit came just before Prigozhin’s revolt.

Burns made a similar secret visit to China in early June.

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-02 05:25|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 All war is "corrosive."

Please get out of the foreign policy business and get back to intelligence collection and reporting as is outlined in your organizational charter.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-02 05:30|| 2023-07-02 05:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Understand there was yet another revolt last night.

Is this part of a chess game? Or is the Russian military fedup with Putin's USSR style Rule an Expansionism attempt?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-02 06:28|| 2023-07-02 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Director Burns is giving us the public position of the CIA. It would be fascinating to get the in-house view vs what they are trying to sell.

Posted by SteveS 2023-07-02 10:33|| 2023-07-02 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 How about the corrosive effect of Marxism?

Posted by AlanC 2023-07-02 11:58|| 2023-07-02 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 He made his statement and returned to operations against Americans.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-02 14:59|| 2023-07-02 14:59|| Front Page Top

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