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Putin's Invasion in Ukraine Was a Special Operation
Right up until even the moment it happened, there is an element of doubt in my mind, whether it could be real. But at the same time, absolutely no one in Moscow thought it was possible. Even the large parts of the military and the secret services had basically no idea. And we know not just that the American intelligence on what Putin was doing was pretty much bang on, but the intelligence they have about Ukraine and his own assumptions they had about the country were completely wrong.