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  • ‘Ukraine is going to win’: Estonia’s departing spy chief opens up on Putin’s war

    10/09/2022 3:59:15 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 31 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | October 9, 2022 | Michael Weiss
    “Early retirement” is a strange way to describe a 44-year-old’s acceptance of a new government role, but for Mikk Marran, Estonia’s spymaster, it feels a lot like that. As of next month he will no longer helm Välisluureamet, the Baltic state’s foreign intelligence service, which, long before Vladimir Putin’s faltering invasion of Ukraine, was at the forefront of assessing the threats and capabilities of a resurgent and revanchist Russia.(snip) According to one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence officer, “Estonia punches far above its weight on Russian affairs. The respect for Marran and his service in the U.S. intelligence community is quite...
  • ‘Someone will fall victim’: insiders reveal elite anguish as Russia’s war falters (Prigozhin and Kadyrov vs. Shoigu and FSB)

    10/09/2022 12:58:24 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    Guardian UK ^ | 10/7/2022 | Pjotr Sauer
    Key figures including Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin are using military defeats to undermine defence chief Sergei Shoigu. Friends, rivals and enemies took their seats in the Grand Kremlin Palace as Vladimir Putin gathered the country’s elite to formalise Russia’s illegal annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine. The ceremony was meant to portray strength and unity, but within 24 hours had been overshadowed by Russia’s failures on the battlefield. These losses, which continued into this week on the southern and eastern fronts in Ukraine, have led to a major, unprecedented rupture within the ruling class as the Kremlin seeks scapegoats...