Posted on 08/20/2023 12:07:57 PM PDT by delta7
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.
The new southfront for many, many censored videos Biden’s war cheerleaders don’t want you to view.
https://southfront.press/
For what It’s worth, I do relish the thought of when the sheeple wake up and realize the lies and omissions by senile Joe’s government become widely apparent….
“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...”
I’ll give Sullivan credit for referencing a historical example other than WW2, which is all these morons can usually manage.
But to reference the Versailles Treaty as a successful model for what you want to do is beyond bizarre !
Also, comparing Biden to Wilson who was incapacitated by a stroke seems appropriate.
Half a year after Brandon bungled Afghanistan Russia invaded Ukraine.
With the US administration calling the shots this is not unexpected.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f&!$ things up”
—Barak Hussein Obama
But they know all about the lies of the lockdowns, vaccines etc. and it has had little effect.
The Washington Post article says that Melitopol won't be captured but that:
""Ukraine’s forces, which are pushing toward Melitopol from the town of Robotyne more than 50 miles away, will remain several miles outside of the city, U.S. officials said."
That means that the rail lines and highways in Melitopol will be in range of Ukrainian mortars, ATGMs, rockets, and artillery. Russia won't have a land route to supply Crimea at that point.
It's a corrupt country - people don't choose to go the extra mile in counties like Ukraine. We're starting to see that with our military too. Few want to sign up - fewer to give their lives for the likes of the goons and thugs in DC in sitting in their mansions...wearing $10,000 suits. Besides Antony Blinken's a friend of Hunter. For all we know he was paid off by the thugs and goons in Ukraine. That said, it's nice to see the CIA speak a little truth... Antony Blinken
Mmmmmmmm........Biden desperately needed a war
not only for the Biden Crime Family money laundering
but to brag about as a candidate.
Keep in mind that these intelligence types were the same ones who confidently predicted that Zelensky would book to safety w/n days of the Russian invasion. The successors to the same crowd that was stunned when the USSR ‘suddenly’ collapsed in ‘91.
Well credentialed? Sure. Well dressed? of course. Wise? You decide...
The Ukrainians today pentrated the Russian first line of defense at Tokmuk and are widening the gap.
But they know all about the lies of the lockdowns, vaccines etc. and it has had little effect.
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Little acknowledged effect. The vast majority of those that took Biden’s clot shots tell me they wish they never did. I know more than a dozen killed by the vax’s, the families will NOT forget the lies they were fed…..they were fooled once- now only a fool believes Biden’s Ukie war narrative.
I also find that the Mudbloods vastly support senile Joe’s Ukie war, us Purebloods knew it was to be avoided from day one.
Sorry to say, but most Americans fell for Biden’s shit sandwich not once, but twice….says not much about today’s sheeple reasoning skills.
That said, much has been dumped over the weekend about senile Joe’s scurrying for an off ramp in his devastating Ukie war….I expect another senile Joe Afghanistan debacle- for all the world to see.
On the contrary it had a profound effect on election cheating, making it more available, affordable, effective, and deniable while being cheered on by those who made billions on pandemic funds.
No it has had little effect on voter behaviour or attitudes.
Newsome was the worst hypocrite on lockdowns and distancing etc. and he avoided the recall then won reelection big.
So did Whitmer, Dems in PA etc.
Now some of that was fraud but there is just a lot of people who still believe what the TV and “experts” tell them.
Pretty tough to defeat a numerically superior force without air support in modern warfare. The Biden administration has been dragging their feet on supplying the Ukes the F-16’s they want but the situation must be bad since the Netherlands is sending them 42 F-16’s.
As a southern refugee from Whitmer’s totalitarian paradise, hard to disagree with your points.
“ Southfront was posting non western geo- located videos of the Ukies smack down.”
That puts their shutdown in quite different perspective.
Thanks for the info.
As a southern refugee from Whitmer’s totalitarian paradise, hard to disagree with your points.
Just to confirm that we are truly living in Clown World.
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