A "whistle-blower" letter supposedly has been issued by a disgruntled FSB officer. Is it real? Unknown. Bellingcat thinks it possibly is.
The letter indicates that Putin bit off WAY, WAY more than he can chew and everyone is now FUBAR ************************
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Christo Grozev @christogrozev
Last night, an alleged FSB whistle-blower letter was published that damned Russia's military performance in Ukraine and predicted a disaster for the RU in the next weeks and months. I wasn't sure if it was authentic - as Ukraine had previously leaked fake FSB letters as psy-ops.
This letter appeared different though: it came via a reputable source (founder of http://gulagu.net), and it was way longer than a forger would choose to make it (the longer the text, the more risk of making an error).
I showed the letter to two actual (current or former) FSB contacts, and they had no doubt it was written by a colleague. They didn't agree with all of his conclusions, but that's a different story. Here's the text, worth reading
I got this from a deep cover agent named ‘hyper tiger’
Ok in 2014 Ukraine went from a primarily western Russia influenced area to a primarily eastern Europe influenced area which is a western Europe influenced area which is an eastern North and South American influenced area which is a western North American influenced area which is a eastern Asian influenced area.
In the far east of Ukraine the population is primarily Russian.
The Crimea outright joined Russia due to it being almost totally Russian anyways except for the flags.
“The war in the Donbas, or the Donbas War, is an armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine, part of the broader Russo-Ukrainian War. From the beginning of March 2014”
7 years 10 months this war that you all did not notice until recently has been raging.
“The name of March comes from Martius, the first month of the earliest Roman calendar. It was named after Mars, the Roman god of war, and an ancestor of the Roman people through his sons Romulus and Remus. His month Martius was the beginning of the season for warfare”
Because I have a deep attachment to the above.
I noticed.
Inside Donbas are Russian separatists fully backed by Russia that have been waging a war with the Ukrainian armed forces
“The current size of Ukraine’s armed forces, which consists of 250,000 (215,000 military personnel), is the largest in Europe, and second in the region after the Russian Armed Forces. In 2022, President Zelensky ordered to increase the size of the forces by 100,000 by 2025, while ending conscription in 2024.”
Now I will show you why I have a deep connection.
Code
“In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication”
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
Hint adds up to 51
Mars adds up to 51
Michael adds up to 51
And elite adds up to 51
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”
That’s actually a very sober document. Thanks. He actually alluded to a point I make below, with respect to the Russo-Japanese War:
Re casualties, even the official Russian numbers are not good, if you take them at face value. Iraqi Freedom cost 173 American dead in 6 weeks. The Russian KIA count was 500 several days ago, a week after the invasion began. That is literally 18x the US rate on a weekly basis. And the Russians have (until Ukraine is pacified and absorbed) less than 1/2 the US population. In per capita terms, the Russians are taking roughly 40x the punishment per week that the US did in Iraq.
The US lost under 20 men a day in Vietnam. The Russians are losing 70 men a day in Ukraine. And that’s just the official Russian numbers. If you multiply by 2 to account for the usual Russian fiddling with numbers that gave Putin his $200b piggy bank ...
At minimum, morale might soon be a problem. Russians fought like demons in WWII for their lives. The Nazis literally wanted to kill them all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
Whereas other Russian wars have triggered mutinies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution