The West betrays Ukraine
Professor Phillips O’Brien on the greatest intelligence failure of our time
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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