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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
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I have wondered if the US controlled the narrative here intentionally underselling the Ukraine defensive ability to allow Ukraine to come out ahead in the end.
I have no doubt many intelligent agencies got it dead wrong (ie France) but for some reason I think the US didn’t but framed it as so. Last I saw the US official position was that they got it wrong as well in thinking Russia would roll over Ukraine
I remember Zelinsky once commenting on why he didn’t shore up the defensive positions more pre invasion and he made an off hand comment about not letting your enemy know you’re waiting for them.