Posted on 04/04/2022 9:12:45 AM PDT by ASA Vet
Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on March 9. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign intelligence branch of the FSB, which is the Russian security service. They were allegedly the main proponents of the assumption that Ukraine would swiftly collapse, which has proved deeply flawed.
But, as has become increasingly clear over many years, Vladimir Putin has become intolerant of opinions that contradict his preferred course of action. So although the intelligence was flawed, Beseda’s claims likely manipulated facts to fit what the Russian president wanted to believe. Having led the foreign intelligence branch since 2009, it is likely Beseda knew what his boss wanted to hear. Yet both he and Bolyukh have taken the blame for the wider invasion failure.
Putin has been living in a virtual bunker. The presidential administration, his primary information source, is a secretive organisation and has been feeding Putin a controlled information flow for over a decade. The institution acts as a gatekeeper to Putin and blocks non-positive intelligence from reaching him.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...
Sound familar?
—while I disbelieve almost any “Russia” news on the internet, it sounds like their “intelligence” agencies may be as incompetent as ours—
Let the Russian Purge continue.
Eva Braun, pick up the white courtesy phone...Eva Braun...
“—while I disbelieve almost any “Russia” news on the internet, it sounds like their “intelligence” agencies may be as incompetent as ours—”
Ours are not incompetent, they are just corrupt.
Russia is corrupt, but not as corrupt as the U.S. and Ukraine.
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