Remember back when Obama picked Brandon to be his vice president, thanks in part to Joe supposedly being a foreign policy expert? That didn’t work out so well, especially with Russia taking Crimea. Now that Brandon is president, well, now we have Russia trying to take Ukraine, as you well know, and the admin is desperately looking for some wins, so, they keep yammering about things that need to stay quiet
Former US officials and diplomats in recent days have sharply criticized the Biden administration over a New York Times report based on conversations with senior officials that said US intelligence was helping Ukraine kill Russian generals.
“Shut up about it,” John Sipher, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, said in a tweet on the Times report.
Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, in a tweet responding to Sipher said, “Exactly. No one should be talking to press about such things.”
Striking a similar tone, former US diplomat Aaron David Miller tweeted that the “whole shift in tone” following Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Ukraine is “worrisome.”
“Weakening Russia; winning; and now stories @NYT about killing Russian generals. Why can’t we just shut up?” Miller said.
Because the Let’s Go Brandon admin wants to brag, regardless of how idiotic it is. Supporting Ukraine, which has little strategic relevance for the U.S. is one thing: trying to turn this into a proxy war is another. Which could lead to a direct war between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. Does anyone truly know what’s going through Putin’s mind? We know little is going on in Joe’s mind.
The intel-sharing reports by the NYT and NBC News suggested, without specifying, that the US shared intelligence so precise — such as high-resolution images or transmissions made by radars or radios — that the Ukrainian military could use it to plan strikes. The NYT reported that the “White House finds some value in warning Russia that Ukraine has the weight of the United States and NATO behind it,” but the Pentagon insisted that it doesn’t provide the location of Russian generals to Ukraine and has no role in Ukrainian decisions about where to strike.
You keep things like this quiet. You don’t tell Russia what we’re doing.
On the heels of the bombshell Times story, a separate report from NBC News said that US intelligence also helped Ukraine sink the Moskva — a guided missile cruiser and the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in a tweet responding to reports on the Moskva said he couldn’t “fathom why US officials are discussing US helping Ukraine sink Russian ships or kill its generals.”
He says it allows Russia to say they are the victim. It also gives Russia a reason to expand his war. Of course, Team Brandon denies that they are helping Ukraine in this manner, but, then says they didn’t release the info on purpose, they were leaks. So, if they were leaks, they were, in fact, providing the intelligence and helping. Helping is great. Stop yammering about it. Don’t poke the bear. We do not need retaliation from Russia, possibly leading to WWIII.