No, it’s not a big breakthrough message...
It’s just one of many more to come.
I would expect the next message as they ramp this up, to be more subtle.
I would expect some arms shipments to our NATO allies. That would be one possibility among a thousand ideas..
Since WWII, war fighting and intelligence have co-mingled and in fact much of it is intelligence activity now. You keep dismissing it, but what Dempsey is doing is part of the intelligence efforts. Call it psy ops, call it propaganda, disinformation, call it whatever you like.
But the cold war lamp has been relit. From here you will see hundreds of other moving pieces, most of them you will not notice as you did not notice this one. Some will be quite obvious, others nobody but historians will ever talk about.
With some luck and intestinal fortitude, we might get it done.
Frankly, I don’t know how this will go. But I, as always, am prepared for anything.
I’m not dismissing Intelligence, I was part of a company assigned to them when I was a part of NATO.I worked in the Intelligence area including with other NATO forces besides American it was what we did.
I just speak a little less dramatically than you.