{"id":271579,"date":"2023-07-28T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271579"},"modified":"2023-07-30T07:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T07:25:28","slug":"opera-buffa-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271579","title":{"rendered":"Opera Buffa in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seymour Hersh \u2013 Substack.com July 27, 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at recent events in the Ukraine war from the point of view of those in the American intelligence community who don\u2019t feel they have the ear of President Joe Biden but should.<\/p>\n

On July 17 Ukraine attacked for a second time one of Russian President Vladimir\u2019s proudest achievements: the 11.25-mile Kerch Bridge linking Crimea to Russia. The 3.7 billion dollar bridge, with separate spans for auto and train traffic, was opened for auto traffic in May of 2018 and for trucks five months later, with Putin himself driving the first one to make the crossing.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made it clear before the Russian invasion early last year that he considered the bridge a legitimate military target. Ukraine initially attacked the bridge last October, using a submersible drone, but it was fully repaired within seven months. The most recent attack, by a pair of submersible drones, killed a couple who were driving across when the explosion occurred and injured their child. Damage to one of the auto spans was severe.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration\u2019s role in both attacks was vital. \u201cOf course it was our technology,\u201d one American official told me. \u201cThe drone was remotely guided and half submerged\u2014like a torpedo.\u201d I asked if there was any thought before the bridge attack about the possibility of retaliation. \u201cWhat will Putin do? We don\u2019t think that far,\u201d the official said. \u201cOur national strategy is that Zelensky can do whatever he wants to do. There\u2019s no adult supervision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin responded to the second attack on the bridge by ending an agreement that enabled Ukrainian wheat and other vital food crops, stymied by the ongoing war, to be shipped from blocked ports on the Black Sea. (Before the war Ukraine exported more grain than the entire European Union and nearly half of the world\u2019s sunflower seeds.) And Russia began steadily intensifying missile and rocket attacks in Odessa, whose initial target list has expanded from port areas to inner city sites.<\/p>\n

The official said there was a lot more than grain and sunflower seeds flowing into Europe from Odessa and other Black Sea ports: \u201cOdessa\u2019s exports included illegal stuff like drugs and the oil that Ukraine was getting from Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, with the Ukraine counteroffensive against Russia thwarted, the official said, \u201cZelensky has no plan, except to hang on. It\u2019s as if he\u2019s an orphan\u2014a poor waif in his underwear\u2014and we have no real idea of what Zelensky and his crowd are thinking. Ukraine is the most corrupt and dumbest government in the world, outside of Nigeria, and Biden\u2019s support of Zelensky can only come from Zelensky\u2019s knowledge of Biden, and not just because he was taking care of Biden\u2019s son.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are some in the American intelligence community, the official said, who worry about Putin\u2019s response to the recent Ukrainian drone attacks in central Moscow. \u201cWill Kiev be next?\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to an anonymous intelligence insider Seymour Hersh spoke to, the U.S. played a critical role in the recent attack on the Kerch Bridge attack with the use of two submersible drones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"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":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271579","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271582,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271579\/revisions\/271582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}