The U.S. “intelligence community” has two purposes. It overthrows legitimate governments DC does not like, as they did in Ukraine and they tailor bogus assessments to further DC political narratives. Intelligence gathering? Yeah, right! I don’t know of any actual factual intelligence they’ve gathered and acted on in my lifetime.
Was it Clauswitz or Sun Tzu or Napoleon who said “Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake”? Whichever, it applies to these “intelligence” publications from the Western elites telling themselves Russia is coming out the worse in this conflict. These people, like the culture they inhabit, live not in the real world but in a world of fantasy and self-delusion.