President Joe Biden revealed, until the eve of the Russo-Ukrainian war, a weapon never used by the United States: the truth, according to his intelligence services.
Firing denunciations of what President Vladimir Putin intended to do, before he did, he disarmed him at times. This is what may have happened with a video in which Russian soldiers appeared wounded or killed by Ukrainians, triggering the start of the war days ago.
Spies and military intelligence services were not sympathetic to the White House’s strategy of transparency. After all, they are secret, they live in the shadows. Until recently, it took time for a revelation to come out, with censors weeding out compromising details and high-ranking Pentagon officials weighing possible consequences.
President Biden expedited the process. American newspapers have been gaining access to satellite photos and information on Russian troop movements since November.
Putin is a veteran Soviet KGB spy with a flair for theatrics. This week, he gave a public scolding to his foreign intelligence chief, who hesitated to respond “yes” to the idea of ​​recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed pro-Russian breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Then, with the unanimous approval of his ministers, he told the Russians on TV that the US and its allies were using Ukraine “as an instrument of confrontation with Russia.” And he promised to “denazify” Ukraine, which is presided over by a Jew, Volodymyr Zelensky.
“When a war starts, the first casualty is the truth”, said US Senator Hiram Johnson. Sometimes the lie appears even earlier — Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” were the prelude to the invasion of Iraq, and they were never found. If you counted how many planes Iraq and Iran claimed to have shot down each other in the 1980 war, there would be no air force left in the world.
The “downgrading” of secret information from Russian troops’ siege of Ukraine, quickly distributed to NATO and European allies, may have complicated Putin’s plans for an invasion.
He was unprepared for the truth portrayed by satellites. He tried, simulating an early withdrawal of his tanks and missiles to the barracks, but was denied.
The new US strategy prevents the creation of contradictory narratives that covered the crash of the Malaysia Airlines plane, in which 298 passengers died, shot down by a Russian missile fired from a pro-Russian separatist region in Ukraine, as an investigation by the Netherlands concluded. and by the investigative journalism website Bellingcat, much later.
