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The West betrays Ukraine

The West betrays Ukraine

Professor Phillips O’Brien on the greatest intelligence failure of our time

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Oct 12, 2024
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The least discussed story of the Ukrainian war is the incredible failure of Western intelligence to understand that a corrupt and ill-led Russia was a dilapidated mafia state.

Rather than see the Putin regime for what it is, Western intelligence services have consistently overestimated Russian power with horrendous cons…

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