[Bruce Campbells Chin]

They were right on Putin invading Ukraine after Putin had massed over 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border for everyone to see? That is supposed to be an impressive call? Don't make me laugh. Did you actually see those 100k+ Russian troops? Or did you just take CIA's word for it?

Just trying to see how consistent you are.

[buwaya]

Well, they did show up didn’t they? Pretty much on schedule too. It wasn’t hard to count tanks, numerous sources posted commercial satellite images of tank parks near the borders, and even in Byelorussia. If commercial staellites can do that, military ones should be that much better. Satellite recon is perfectly within the US military capabilities, even if they are useless in humint.

[SmokingJoe]

Did you actually see those 100k+ Russian troop

Pictures were in all the major daily newspapers, videos on BBC etc, especially in Europe.

Or did you just take CIA's word for it?

Does anyone actually take the CIA's word on anything, given their terrible record?