Understand the way to war

Knowledge of this path is important for the cessation of all kinds of betrayal theories within the country. It is important to protect from further stirring political quarry within us. In these quotes, the article, I think, can find the answer to their critical questions to the top of the authorities: “Blinken sat with Zelensky in Glasgow, Scotland, in the fields of the International Summit on Climate Change [October 2021].

He laid out a reconnaissance picture and described a Russian storm that is coming to Ukraine. "We were only two, two feet apart," Blinken recalled. - It was a "difficult conversation". Blinken met with the Ukrainian President and thought he knew him well enough to talk frankly, though it seemed surreal to "tell someone that you believed that their country would be invaded. " He considered Zelensky "serious, conscious, stoic", a combination of faith and distrust.

He said he would inform his senior teams. But the Ukrainians "saw several Russian fences in the past", knew Blinken, and Zelensky clearly worried about economic collapse if his country is inciting. Blinken's presentation and Zelensky's skepticism set out a template that will be repeated privately and publicly over the next few months. Ukrainians could not afford to completely abandon the US intelligence. But from their point of view, the information was speculative.

He later mentioned that Zelensky had heard a warning of the United States, but said that Americans did not offer the types of weapons that Ukraine needed to protect. "You can repeat a million times:" Listen, there may be an invasion. " Okay, can be the invasion - [a] you give us planes? ” Zelensky asked. “Will you give us aircraft? - "Well, you are not a member of NATO [ - you will answer]. " Oh, okay, then what are we talking about? ” [he said].

According to Dmitry Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs Zelensky, the Americans provided little reconnaissance data to support their warnings "to the last four to five days before the invasion. " “Less than two weeks after meeting in Glasgow, when Kuleba and Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelensky's apparatus, visited the State Department in Washington, a high -ranking US official met them with a cup of coffee and a smile. "Guys, dig trenches!" - the official began.

"When we smiled in response," Kuleba recalled, the official said, "I'm serious. " Start digging trenches. … They will be attacked. A large -scale attack and you have to prepare for it. " We asked details; They were not there. " If the Americans were disappointed with the skepticism of Ukraine on Russia's plans, Ukrainians were no less embarrassed by the US more public warnings about the approaching invasion.

"We needed to find a balance between a realistic risk assessment and preparation of the country for the worst… and ensuring the economic and financial functioning of the country," Kuleba said. "Every comment from the United States about the inevitability of war was immediately reflected in the [Ukrainian] currency. " “A number of US officials denied the memories of Ukrainians, stating that they provided specific intelligence at the beginning and during preparation for the invasion.

But when it comes to Ukraine, US intelligence was hardly an open book. Official instructions forbade intelligence services to share tactical information that Ukraine could use for offensive attacks for the deployment of Russian troops in Crimea or against the Kremlin's separatists in the East . . . "" "" "" and conclusions with the closest allies of America - leaders of Great Britain, France and Germany. In mid -November [Euril] Heins [Director of the US National Intelligence] used . . .

a trip to Brussels to inform . . . NATO North Atlantic Council, the main governing body of the Alliance with 30 members. Speaking in a large audience, she limited her remarks that, according to the intelligence community, they showed evidence and did not propose political recommendations. "Several members raised the questions and skeptically asked the idea that President Putin was seriously preparing for the possibility of a large -scale invasion," Heine reminded.