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The first and foremost conclusion I would draw from this if I was the Russian DOD is that it is a disiinformation campaign. The Russians can of course fact check it themsleves. How on earth can the USA claim to know Russian troop concentrations and not know Ukrainian troop numbers? That is insane. NATO is running this war and we should assume they have all of this information, otherwise how can they determine armament requirements? Don't fall into the trap.

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Yeah... US NRO has satellites covering every inch of Ukraine. The US spends billions of dollars to monitor its' operations around the world. The CIA has had assets on the ground for years (remember they initially planned for Ukraine to fight an insurgency... oops!) so the idea that they don't know what's going on internally is pretty sus.

The US wants Russia to send more materiel into the battlespace so they can observe it and learn. They want them to launch more hypersonic missiles so they can gather the telemetry data. They want them to send more warplanes to shoot down and capture tech. They want them to act impulsively and overextend themselves. Everything they put out is bait for this purpose.

Not to take away from Serge's analysis - it certainly has merit if you take the documents as authentic - but this leak also conveniently allows a lot of people to engage in confirmation bias about the perceived weakness of the US. A mistake to underestimate what they are capable of - I think the Russians have certainly learned that lesson.

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On the capturing tech aspect - if you observe closely Russia has been very miserly.

A few examples for illustration -

Kinzhal yes, Tsirkon no. Why? Kinzhal is a modification of Iskander versions of which have been exported, technology transferred.

Kh-31 yes Kh-15 no. Once again kh-31 widely exported.

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Our incompetent POTUS knows he has MSM 100 percent behind him, he can say anything he wants and they'll never say a word.

It's not exactly a secret that with Russia shooting 10 times the amount of artillery rounds (and similar ratios of artillery pieces too) and Ukraine 100 percent reliance on its propaganda that the people making allied decisions don't know what the hell is going on. We've been told for a year that the Russians are out of troops (no longer true with Putin's reserve call up) are out of artillery rounds (sure doesn't seem to affect them yet) and too many other factors to remember, then how can Russia even fight anymore?

Like all insecure politicans everywhere JB or his administration of Jake Sullivan, the war has been politicalized, like every other entity in the DOD (I'd argue the entire government)

I think we're going to soon discover that the amount of Ukraine dead are much higher than we were told (or maybe OUR politicians are lying to us too) and the Russians are considerably better off than we were told. The fact that propaganda (by itself) cannot win wars seems set to be re-discovered. I don't think we have yet discovered how badly JB can fuck things up. Obama was the first person to recognize this and to warn people to "never underestimate the ability of JB to fuck things up".

So who is left to fight the Ukraine war? Is there going to be a "emergency" that necessitates US soldiers direct involvement?

Zelensky sure seemed ready to think so!

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"going to soon discover"???

Ukraine is shooting videos, Russia is shooting cannons !!!

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Default to the "US military knows what it's doing".

I see no signs of that. The fact that nobody has said what victory means for the US, shows to me that politics "runs" the US war machine, and that machine has no connection with reality

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The US military and NATO are getting their butts kicked. The point I was making is that the West is fighting a propaganda and disinformation campaign, not that it has any chance to prevail. NATO is going to be humilated and soundly defeated. This "leak" is either a lame ploy to deceive the Russians or an attempt inside of the US Military to humiliate those in charge enough to find a way out of the disaster they created. Russian MOD will study this but it will not affect their strategy on the ground. They have already won, its just the other side cannot admit defeat quite yet.

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The neocons plan was only about sanctions of hell, nothing else.But big problem it failed and only destroyed Eu allies economy and energy competitivity for at least 10 years. The goal of the sanctions was also to destroy German economy, done, with the complicity of weak politicians or incompetents US assets like Grunen (greens).

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Thank you JustTruth -- my conclusion also since US/UK military runs the Nazi-dominated puppet state and pays salaries of every government official of Ukraine

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