I'll just have to disagree with you on this, it doesn't pass the smell test.
You could easily be right.
I’m ignorant in a list of ways about such things.
I just think that us arm-chair folks from such a great distance—particularly those out of such areas of expertise and experience based training and knowledge . . .
are fooling themselves to make emphatic statements as though they knew everything there is to know—either about the general technologies; contingencies; operational factors etc. etc. etc. as well as the geo-political nonsense with OThuga at the helm.
I do know that enough FREEPERS are related to enough military personnel in enough categories to know something factual about what’s going on, that in due course, the truth should filter out—at least in general terms.
Providing it doesn’t all get lost in a rush of more dramatic goings on.