Washington DC leaks like a sieve. It seems no one can keep their mouth shut about some elemental national security matters.
Doing something is one thing, talking about it is something else.
The intelligence establishment apparently can't shut up.
CNN: US provided intelligence that helped Ukraine target Russian warship
NY Post: US intelligence reportedly helped Ukraine kill Russian generals
Again, doing it and providing Ukraine that intelligence is appropriate and that's one thing.
Announcing you are doing it and broadcasting it to the world -- including to Russia -- that you're doing it is a rather stupid -- both as an unnecessary escalation, and stating that we're doing it needlessly confirms information for Russia that they shouldn't be given.
Simply stupid.
Update: Revealing this information isn't from a leak. It's amazingly an officially sanctioned policy to reveal and confirm this information:
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed to the Times that the US provides “Ukraine with information and intelligence that they can use to defend themselves,” while refusing to “speak to the details.”
This is unfathomably stupid. Whatever happened to "No Comment"?
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Perhaps the Russians will return the favor? They must have some competent snipers. Perhaps a couple of mines outside a US port?
Well Seasoned Fool: Possibly,and these idiots just gave them a confirmed causus belli, and that's why openly admitting to this, as well as the statement by Lloyd Austin that the goal is to weaken Russia is incredibly stupid.
Again you may indeed do it quietly, but you don't trumpet that you're doing it.
hey Aaron;
This is "Cassus Belli" stuff and to have the administration to be so tone deaf to acknowledge it is asinine.
Democrats are inherently narcissists and always need to "brag" and say "look at me"...
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