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S6 Ep23: Putin's Plan B for Ukraine with Frank Snepp

Secrets and Spies Podcast: Current Affairs | Geopolitics | Intelligence

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I Think the Initial Stage of the Invasion Was Handled Well and Not So Well by Us

Intelligence misunderstood the fragility of the russian army and assumed that it would immediately overrun ukraine. Intelligence handled the intelligence terrifically as a si weapon once the operation got under way. They failed to anticipate how quickly the Russian army would run into itselfonce it got into the field. Inte gence is always is hard pressed to examine and to assess the impact of morale within ukraine itself, and i'm talking about the power of one person, zalenski himself, in shaping events.

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