“We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero,” said one source briefed on US intelligence. “It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time. . .”
Privately, officials recognize that Ukraine has an incentive to give only information that will bolster their case for more aid, more arms and more diplomatic assistance.
“It’s a war – everything they do and say publicly is designed to help them win the war. Every public statement is an information operation, every interview, every Zelensky appearance broadcast is an information operation,” said another source familiar with western intelligence.
Meanwhile Ukraine is rapidly running through NATO’s stock of anti-tank weapons. The stock was built up over many years, there is no way that production of new weapons can keep up with the losses.
At the same time, a video allegedly showing Russian rebels buying an armored vehicle from Ukrainian soldiers has emerged. It must be Russian propaganda . . .
Is the Ukrainian war sustainable given the rapid depletion of NATO weapons stocks?
How much of the weapons end up getting sold on the black market?
How long will it take China or Russia to replicate the weapons?
A negotiated cease fire should be the top priority if the US government is really concerned about saving lives. Instead the US appears to have done everything it could to provoke the war and it continues to block any real progress towards a cease fire.
The Pentagon’s objective appears to be war-forever that maximizes profits for American arms merchants. Millions of Ukrainians are likely to die in that scenario. If you doubt that, just look at Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Yes. The US refused to negotiate NATO membership for Ukraine. Why would we do that unless we wanted to start a war?
Arming neo-Nazis and putting them on the Russian border has been highly provocative as well. Something about millions of war dead makes Russian freak out about things like that. Of course bulging veins would be a real provocation . . .
Yes, there was a time when NATO was a defensive organization. That went out the window in when NATO started “humanitarian bombings” in Yugoslavia, Libya, etc.
