The dumping of classified materials from the Pentagon on a Discord server on March 1st and March 2nd allegedly by Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Air National Guard, revealed a litany of cases where the United States was misleading the public. The documents themselves were intelligence assessments primarily concerning matters relating to the Russo-Ukraine War.
Upon the press noticing the documents, there were efforts to brand the sensitive documents as being nefariously leaked by Russia. No evidence, however, has so far surfaced to back that claim, and with the arrest of the alleged leaker, an American citizen, it seems unlikely.
Michael Tracey, a journalist, broke down some of the items from the unauthorized release by writing that “Zelensky ordering attacks inside Russia – Presence of US/NATO special forces in Ukraine – US spying on top Ukraine officials – Ukraine attacking Belarus.”
Just a few items confirmed by the leaked docs:
– Zelensky ordering attacks inside Russia
– Presence of US/NATO special forces in Ukraine
– US spying on top Ukraine officials
– Ukraine attacking BelarusBut everyone's ENRAGED the government is no longer concealing these things
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 14, 2023
When the Russo-Ukraine War started in 2022, President Biden vowed that there would be no U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine yet the documents reveal this is not so. There are 14 American special operations personnel operating in Ukraine.
According to NewsNation, there is a host of problems with the state of Ukrainian armed forces. These include “how close Ukraine’s vital air defense systems are to running out of missiles — with stocks expected to be exhausted as soon as late this month or May, absent significant resupply. That would open Ukraine’s skies to more of the Russian air and artillery strikes that already have devastated cities and infrastructure.”
The document’s assessment of the state of the Ukrainian army to conduct a fully successful offensive is exhaustive. It declared that “enduring Ukrainian deficiencies in training and munitions supplies probably will strain progress and exacerbate casualties during the offensive.”
A controversial leak that was claimed by officials to be altered was figures on causality rates by Russia and Ukraine that purported that the Ukrainians suffered seven times the rate of losses as Russia did. CNN claimed that a leaked document showed (without linking to said document) that the true unaltered figure was that “Russian forces had suffered 189,500 to 223,000 casualties as of February, including as many as 43,000 troops killed in action. Ukraine, meanwhile, had suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties, with up to 17,500 killed in action.”
The leaks also show that the United States is spying on friends and foes alike. This includes allies who aren’t related to the Russo-Ukrainian War. While the leak about Israel muses about scenarios where the Jewish state might provide Ukraine with lethal aid, another leak concerns the Mossad’s [Israel’s CIA] encouragement of the anti-judicial reform movement (which the Mossad denies doing).
The leaks also convey internal South Korean concerns over how their arms to the United States might end up in Ukraine. (In South Korea there is a law that prohibits weapons from being sent to war zones). The South Korean government has denied this happened but the South Korean opposition said that “If it is true that they have spied on us, it is a very disappointing act that undermines the South Korea-U.S. alliance, which is based on mutual trust.”
The leaked reports also include embarrassing material about Russia as well. As noted by the Moscow Times, a Russian news outlet, the leaks include that “U.S. intelligence appears to have penetrated nearly every Russian military body including the General Staff, the Defense Ministry, and the GRU military intelligence agency, as well as the private mercenary group Wagner.” It also further exposed Chinese considerations about sending arms to Russia.
The leaks go beyond what was summarized here but the broader meaning of the leaks is clear. The US has long spied on foes and friends alike so such revelations about it continuing to do so by itself are not exactly shocking news. What is new is the concerning developments about the state that the war in Ukraine is going and the misleading statements by the American government on our exact commitment toward the war. While these are broad intelligence assessments and opinions on the war that may or may not bear out, the assessment and opinions are by themselves not encouraging.
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