NBC, WaPo, NYT all had stories on this within an hour or two of each other. These aren't unauthorized leaks. Biden wants Russia and the world to know that we are behind Ukraine all the way up to the limit of US troops on the ground.
Russia undoubtedly knows that the US is supplying Intel to the Ukrainians and have known this probably for a while. Biden wants them to know, that we want them to know.
This Intel forward strategy probably helped consolidate support for Ukraine and the US position on supplying Ukraine with weapons as soon as Russia did invade, on the day the German (foreign? Intel?) minister was in Kiev. And it may have helped head off Russian chemical weapons use. I think Russia is used to dictating the information space and now they aren't, and that has thrown a spanner in the works.
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Lots of smoke online and from Ukraine that they've hit another Russian warship with a Neptune, the very new frigate Admiral Makarov. I suspect we will know one way or another soon enough.
Russia undoubtedly knows that the US is supplying Intel to the Ukrainians and have known this probably for a while. Biden wants them to know, that we want them to know.
This Intel forward strategy probably helped consolidate support for Ukraine and the US position on supplying Ukraine with weapons as soon as Russia did invade, on the day the German (foreign? Intel?) minister was in Kiev. And it may have helped head off Russian chemical weapons use. I think Russia is used to dictating the information space and now they aren't, and that has thrown a spanner in the works.
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Lots of smoke online and from Ukraine that they've hit another Russian warship with a Neptune, the very new frigate Admiral Makarov. I suspect we will know one way or another soon enough.