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2022-06-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

US intel officials admit they didn't see that Russia's military was a 'hollow force.' Here's what they did see and how they missed it.

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-21 09:17|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Too busy with the Trump-RU probe.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-21 09:23|| 2022-06-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Too busy being woke.

Posted by Chris 2022-06-21 09:47|| 2022-06-21 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 You don't enhance your budget by saying the problems you are charged with monitoring / addressing are "meh..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 09:51|| 2022-06-21 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I seem to remember during the Obama administration officials saying Russia is a regional power with nucs. What changed?
Why were they correct then and not now?

Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2022-06-21 10:13|| 2022-06-21 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Then, the Bath House junta wanted to divert military spending to "other priorities." Now they just spend from the Magic Monetary Theory Tree™. No need to set priorities.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 10:23|| 2022-06-21 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Where's all the trolls?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-21 10:45|| 2022-06-21 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7 ...too early in the day to get the talking points out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-21 10:47|| 2022-06-21 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, about their agencies' assumptions in Ukraine, focusing on assessments that Kyiv would fall in three to four days and that the war would last only two weeks.

Remember this when the 'boys' keep citing 'experts' in their postings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-21 10:51|| 2022-06-21 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 sadly, our military isn't in as good shape as it should be

and, like the Russian military, our problems are self inflicted

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-06-21 11:14|| 2022-06-21 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 ^^^^
I actually laughed my ass off seeing this. My God, what a joke!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/navy-lgbt-video-pronouns-military

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-06-21 13:13|| 2022-06-21 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually, a few swabbies taking time off from critical pronoun indoctrination training pulled off a pretty cool multi-domain SINKEX recently.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-21 13:15|| 2022-06-21 13:15|| Front Page Top

#12 It's no surprise if our vaunted "intelligence" community is mistaken about Russia. It wouldn't be the first time. But remember that Hitler found out the hard way how badly mistaken he was about Russia in December 1941 outside Moscow. Even if he looks weak and pathetic, Putin might have reserves that Biden and Zelensky will learn about the hard way.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-21 13:33|| 2022-06-21 13:33|| Front Page Top

#13 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/navy-lgbt-video-pronouns-military

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-21 14:11|| 2022-06-21 14:11|| Front Page Top

#14 But remember that Hitler found out the hard way how badly mistaken he was about Russia in December 1941 outside Moscow.

*Yawn*

If it weren't for lend-lease, Stalin would have made peace with Hitler in exchange for who knows how much territory.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-21 16:36|| 2022-06-21 16:36|| Front Page Top

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