Fwd: Fw: OPERA BUFFA IN UKRAINE

Thu Jul 27 11:22:07 UTC 2023

Here is SeyLess Hersh's later life reporting failure laid out
so a middle schooler can see it.
One unnamed "official"---such anonymous single sourcing
without receipts is why he got dumped from The New Yorker,
the NYT, then even the very America-critical London Review of
Books.
Why he has no editor and fact-checker which he now brags about.
Also, 'what certain intel folk' will not tell Biden(??)---in what every
other
receipts-bearing reporter says is perhaps the most transparent and
united and almost always correct intel operation we've had.
And How Zelensky is characterized....as a child!!----"no grown-ups--
US folk--in charge"....
Disgraceful and stupid and wrong.

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Date: Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 7:12 AM
Subject: Fw: OPERA BUFFA IN UKRAINE
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President Vladimir Putin drives a construction truck across the
road-and-rail bridge over the Kerch Strait linking mainland Russia to
Crimea during its opening ceremony on May 15, 2018. On July 17 the bridge
was attacked for the second time by the Ukrainian military, using a pair of
submersible drones. / ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images.

Let’s take a look at recent events in the Ukraine war from the point of
view of those in the American intelligence community who don’t feel they
have the ear of President Joe Biden but should.

On July 17 Ukraine attacked for a second time one of Russian President
Vladimir’s 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.

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.

The Biden administration’s role in both attacks was vital. “Of course it
was our technology,” one American official told me. “The drone was remotely
guided and half submerged—like a torpedo.” I asked if there was any thought
before the bridge attack about the possibility of retaliation. “What will
Putin do? We don’t think that far,” the official said. “Our national
strategy is that Zelensky can do whatever he wants to do. There’s no adult
supervision.”

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’s 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.

The official said there was a lot more than grain and sunflower seeds
flowing into Europe from Odessa and other Black Sea ports: “Odessa’s
exports included illegal stuff like drugs and the oil that Ukraine was
getting from Russia.”

At this point, with the Ukraine counteroffensive against Russia thwarted,
the official said, “Zelensky has no plan, except to hang on. It’s as if
he’s an orphan—a poor waif in his underwear—and 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’s support of
Zelensky can only come from Zelensky’s knowledge of Biden, and not just
because he was taking care of Biden’s son.”

There are some in the American intelligence community, the official said,
who worry about Putin’s response to the recent Ukrainian drone attacks in
central Moscow. “Will Kiev be next?”...
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