{"id":254692,"date":"2022-06-10T06:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=254692"},"modified":"2022-06-11T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T07:18:23","slug":"washington-starts-blame-game-over-defeat-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=254692","title":{"rendered":"Washington Starts Blame Game Over Defeat In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 June 9, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The New York Times<\/em>, here via Yahoo<\/em>, has some rather weird piece over alleged lack of intelligence on Ukrainian warplanes:<\/p>\n

U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine’s War Strategy, Officials Say<\/a><\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has provided near-daily updates of Russia\u2019s invasion on social media; viral video posts have shown the effectiveness of Western weapons in the hands of Ukrainian forces; and the Pentagon has regularly held briefings on developments in the war.<\/p>\n

But despite the flow of all this news to the public, U.S. intelligence agencies have less information than they would like about Ukraine\u2019s operations<\/strong> and possess a far better picture of Russia\u2019s military, its planned operations and its successes and failures, according to current and former officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Governments often withhold information from the public for operational security. But these information gaps within the U.S. government could make it more difficult for the Biden administration to decide how to target military aid as it sends billions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine.
\n…
\nAvril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, testified at a Senate hearing last month that \u201cit was very hard to tell\u201d how much additional aid Ukraine could absorb.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWe have, in fact, more insight, probably, on the Russian side than we do on the Ukrainian side.\u201d<\/p>\n

One key question is what measures Zelenskyy intends to call for in Donbas. Ukraine faces a strategic choice there: withdraw its forces or risk having them encircled by Russia.<\/p>\n

Andrei Martyanov rants<\/a> about the piece:<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: Washington Starts Blame Game Over Defeat In Ukraine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After weeks of stories about how \u201cbrave\u201d Ukraine was valiantly fending off Russia, the western MSM has changed its tune. Now it appears to be preparing to frame Ukraine\u2019s mounting losses on \u201cintelligence failures\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254693,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254692\/revisions\/254693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}