Posted on 08/20/2023 8:52:40 AM PDT by Kazan
The CIA warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that “the Ukrainian offense was not going to work,“ reports veteran journalist Seymour Hersh. The end of the Biden Regime’s “murderous and failing war policy in Ukraine” is near, Hersh wrote.
Hersh cites an unnamed intel official who said that SecState Antony Blinken “has figured out that the United States” and Ukraine “will not win the war” against Russia. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported the U.S. intel community realizes the Ukrainian offensive will fail to achieve its key goal of taking the southeastern city of Melitopol, a strategic Russian logistics hub.
“The word was getting to (Blinken) through the Agency that the Ukrainian offense was not going to work. It was a show by Zelensky and there were some in the administration who believed his bullshit,“ Hersh’s source said.
“Blinken wanted to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine as Kissinger did in Paris to end the Vietnam war,” according to the official.
Hersh’s source said that the recent peace conference in Saudia Arabia was National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s “baby,” planned as a crowning achievement after a successful Ukrainian counter-offensive. Instead, the Jeddah Peace Conference without Russian attendance fizzled.
Sullivan “planned it to be Biden’s equivalent of (President Woodrow) Wilson’s Versailles. The grand alliance of the free world meeting in a victory celebration after the humiliating defeat of the hated foe to determine the shape of nations for the next generation. Fame and Glory. Promotion and re-election. The jewel in the crown was to be Zelensky’s achievement of Putin’s unconditional surrender after the lightning spring offensive. They were even planning a Nuremberg type trial at the world court, with Jake as our representative. Just one more fuck-up, but who is counting?”
The CIA had warned SecState Blinken that the Spring counter-offensive “was going to be a big lose,” Hersh writes. “Blinken found himself way over his skis. But he does not want to go down as the court jester.”
When war hawk Blinken was “suddenly having doubts,” CIA director Bill Burns “made his move to join the sinking ship,” Hersh writes. Burns may have been jockeying to replace “a disillusioned Blinken,” according to Hersh, but only got “a token promotion: an appointment to Biden’s cabinet.”
At the same time, “ultra-hawkish” Victoria Nuland was promoted by Biden from Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs to Acting Deputy Secretary of State ”over the heated objections of many in the State Department,” Hersh writes. “She has not been formally nominated as the deputy for fear that her nomination would lead to a hellish fight in the Senate. “
“Tony Blinken, who publicly vowed just a few months ago that there would be no immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, is still in office and, if asked, would certainly dispute any notion of discontent with Zelensky or the administration’s murderous and failing war policy in Ukraine,” Hersh writes. The White House’s “wishful approach to the war, when it comes to realistic talk to the American people, will continue apace,” Hersh said. “But the end is nearing, even if the assessments supplied by Biden to the public are out of a comic strip.”
In November, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said that a victory by Ukraine may not be achieved militarily and that Kiev should look for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. “We may have missed a window to push for earlier talks,” a US official told Politico, admitting that “Milley had a point.”
The governor of Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, claimed “mass desertions” are taking place among Ukrainian conscripts, stating that that approx. 500 Ukrainian soldiers had fled the fighting on the Zaporozhye front. “I just received information that two of the three airmobile battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to participate in offensive operations in the direction of our positions due to their low moral and psychological state,” Balitsky wrote on Telegram.
Pro-Russian news channels are currently being censored, making it harder to get a more balanced point of view to contrast with Biden Regime-controlled media. On August 11, YouTube terminated the account of former US intel analyst Scott Ritter and deleted all of his videos. On August 18, the domain of pro-Russian website Southfront.org was taken down internationally “without any advance notice and explanation,” SouthFront writes on Telegram. It has now been replaced with southfront.press. SouthFront has also been censored from YouTube, Facebook and Twitter and its volunteers interrogated by the FBI, the pro-Russian platform writes.
Are you keeping score?
In the last 60 years, how many countries has Russia attacked vs the number the US has attacked?
Just in case you don't know how to count, the answer is -- the US wins by a long shot.
So much for the "rules-based order," democracy, and sovereign country and international border protections.
and how many of those countries did the US try to annex?
none ...
that’s the difference, Russian troll
I believe the content of the article is about the fact that Ukraine can’t win and it’s probably in their best interest to negotiate. Otherwise they will just keep dying.
We need to stop funding sources of hatred in Galicia and Volhynia.
The problem is that for DC, “negotiation” means, “leave, give us control of your gas, rejoin the grain deal on our terms, pay reparations, line up with us against China, and we will tell you what Russia’s legitimate concerns are”.
It’s retarded.
There you have it, straight from the horsesass’s mouth. Somebody coined the term, “perfumed prince’s”, may I introduce you to the Queen of The Perfumed Prince’s, the military is so screwed right now.
I thought they were supposed to do that in 2022?
“Moral clarity” and a “working moral compass” only goes so far, especially when it ends up bankrupting, and weakening a once great nation, and seeing it destroyed from within.
Wise words. America has fallen far faster than Russia ever will.
Keeping it going is more profitable.
There is a reason why he writes independently and is rarely published by major news outlets. He builds novella like stories around "anonymous sources" who supposedly know the "real story", and are talking to Hersh "confidentially". It is hard to tell if his sources are in the know, are feeding him garbage, or if Hersh fabricated them to say what he wants to believe.
As for Southfront, it is registered in Russia and based in Crimea. It is a known Russian information operation masquerading as citizen news since it was started. Just how is the FBI going to interrogate their volunteers, when they are in Crimea or web brigade offices in Saint Petersburg or Moscow?
“Fame and Glory. Promotion and re-election. The jewel in the crown was to be Zelensky’s achievement of Putin’s unconditional surrender after the lightning spring offensive. They were even planning a Nuremberg type trial at the world court, with Jake as our representative. “
Everyone should be TERRIFIED these fools are in power. Clinical Delusion.
They’d like to get us all killed.
“but hit-and-run sabotage attacks can be effective and cheap ... they’ll figure it out”
Russia will just send Chechens and various contract killers after them...while claiming to be suppressing terrorists.
So, let me get this straight.
It is perfectly alright to invade country after country all around the world, killing millions in the process, and then bullying those countries for eons and controlling them through threats (economic and otherwise) -- just don't try and take over any small part (like we did in Mexico, Guam, and Hawaii).
Excuse me. But you're a fool.
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