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The script reads like a spoof straight out of legendary
Mad magazine 1960's cartoon "Spy vs. Spy": Secret Pentagon Documents Fall in the Hands of Malign Russia. Well, actually in the hands of millions accessing Twitter and Telegram.
So here, at face value, we have a major leak essentially detailing Pentagon planning for the next stage of the NATO vs. Russia proxy war in Ukraine: the interminably debated Spring "counter-offensive" that may, or may not, start in mid-April, as well as war plans shared with FVEY - the Five Eyes.
The leaked intel might - and the operative word is "might" -
be advantageous to Russia were this not to be misdirection: and the possibility is quite real.The inestimable Ray McGovern, who knows one or two things about the CIA, noted whether the Pentagon is "falsifying kill-ratio to gild Easter lilies in Kyiv? Recent leak of an apparently official NATO document shows 71,500 Ukrainians KIA and only 16,000 to 17,500 Russians, a far cry from earlier Pentagon 'estimates'. All sounds so Vietnam-déjà vu!"
So this may be Vietnam all over again - never count on the Pentagon learning from their mistakes - but could be something way more alarming, according to a top Beltway intel source, retired: "Our interpretation of this breach is that intel sources in the United States have released critical intel data in order to avoid a nuclear war with Russia."
As it stands, the only certainty is that the spin war has gone berserk.
So the leaker may have been a - disgruntled - U.S. insider. No, wait: the whole thing may be fake, as the Pentagon insists. In spin speak, that would be an attempt to "spread false information that could harm the U.S.".Tweaked or not, the "secret" Pentagon comparative war dead ratio between Russians and Ukrainians still does not make sense. The numbers appear to reflect Bakhmut/Artemovsk casualties, where Russian casualty ratios were highest. Yet reliable on the ground Russian military correspondents assure the ratio is really 10 to 1, with the Russians employing the snail technique combined with a formidable artillery mincing machine.
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