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The news was that a torrent of classified documents As highly classified by the United States, they were leaked to US power networks and adversaries. These would be very recent dossiers concerning the immediate conflicts of the White House, in particular the challenge from Ukraine and the threat from Russia and China.

To understand what it is, the materials carry the classification of NOOVENa seal that prevents it from being shared with foreign intelligence agencies, including Five eyesthe espionage community that unites the United States with its own close allies from the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Viewed like this, this is worrying news. as pointed out The Washington Post, above the contents of the files themselves “the most harmful part is the leak itself”. It would reveal an unusual vulnerability in US national security.

The key to the reports is that they question the Ukrainian potential in the war, dispute the casualty numbers released by Washington, and point to a less complex and more effective place for the Russian side in the conflict process. Watch out for that, it’s still interesting the first doubts about the reliability of these files come from Russia.

“It’s probably interesting for someone to look into these documents, whether they really are documents or whether they could be forgeries or constituter an intentional loss”said Sergei Ryabkov, the Kremlin’s deputy foreign minister.

“Because the United States is a party to the conflict and is likely waging a hybrid war against us, it is possible that the technical reports are being used to trick your opponentnamely to the Russian Federation,” he said with conviction.

No doubt

Ukraine, which is the great axis of this surprising episode, has reduced it to a mixture of lies with truth, a look, the latter, not negligible. But after attributed to the Kremlin both card filtering and adding certain content. The United States has never denied ownership of the controversial reports.

According to the investigations of The New York Timesthe medium that got the scoop on the scandal, Joe Biden’s government officials acknowledge authorship of the documents even as they warn that many of them would be manipulated. Truth with lies

For more information, the Post revealed this Thursday that the perpetrator of this audacity was a 21-year-old boy, Jack Teixeira, employed at an air force base.

He is a young racist, pro-weapons and computer technician, skills that would have been enough for such an adventure. A memory even if with some important differences compared to the case of Edward Snowden that released a series of secret documents in 2013.

This comparison has limits and raises some doubts that should be clarified from one story to another. Snowden moved his files The Guardian AND The Washington Post and was a CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) agent.

Teixeira was just a National Guard employee and just the leader of an online chat group, which isn’t exactly from hackers. Not only for this reason, but if you go back a little to the origin of this news and review its framework, it is difficult to assemble the Meccano.

According to the reputable investigative website Bellingcat, by journalists specializing in intelligence gathering and verification, the documents initially appeared on photos posted on Discord, a popular platform among gamers, people who play games online. Again, not the hacker underworld.

Those images show crumpled documents laid out atop magazines and other household items for photos. The case would be that whoever stole them, folded them, put them in his pocket and took them out to photograph them and shoot them at the nets to an unpredictable online gaming channel. We don’t know if he knew exactly what he had taken in his pocket.

This is the version that intelligence community officials have shared with reporters The New York Times.

Bellingcat traced the leak to a now-defunct Discord server. His investigation even suggested the documents had appeared online in March. But there is also evidence that some of that material was posted as early as January on Discord as well. without anyone noticing its existence and importance.

The content

One of the most sensitive issues that the files would reveal is that, despite Biden’s statement that “I will not send the US military to fight in Ukraine”, there are more than 150 specialized commands of the United States and other allied nations in the country. Nothing that would surprise the Russian side. But also something difficult to hide.

Another significant fact, perhaps the most important, would be the recognition that Ukraine it is unable to launch the much-vaunted counter-offensive spring aimed at retaking areas occupied by Russia. Such an observation would reveal hidden doubts in the White House about the real state of the war.

There are no details on the dates of this possible offensive, nor more specific indications on its structure and design. It is cited as a difficult or impossible hill to take.

THE Washington Post, which investigated these materials, a statement that constitutes an admission of “significant deficiencies in the generation and maintenance of Ukrainian military strength” and, therefore, the likelihood that such an operation will produce only “modest territorial gains” anyway.

The influential newspaper of the US capital suggests that, in that case, the White House would have lied about the conflict and the Ukrainian successes.

What does Kiev say? After again dismissing the information as fictitious last week, she denied that there is now any planning against the clock for anticipate that possible counter-offensive.

The childish and obvious question questions, let’s imagine in the case of a building, if we are faced with it an attempt to confuse the enemy regarding an assault described as crucial to the fate of the war. This is what the Russians suggest.

Pentagon spokesman Chris Meagher, while admitting that the images “appear to show documents of a similar format” to those provided to military leaders of the General Staff, insisted on the Doubts about some content.

While US officials have remained silent on which parts may have been tampered with, one of the classified files shows that estimates of the deaths of Russian military personnel in Ukraine are significantly lower than indicated so far: just over 40 thousand against 200 thousand.

Conversely, the number of Ukrainian army dead is said to be much higher than the known figures. Intelligence analysts believe so that data has been manipulated underestimating the casualties on the Russian side and exaggerating those on the Ukrainian side. For what, who, how?, they don’t make it clear.

kyiv warned that much of the information would come from “open sources” a concept in intelligence (OSINT, acronym in English for Open source intelligence) which refers to the collection of available and non-secret information which, when analyzed and combined with certain criteria, builds a context.

The material would also reveal some malice, which probably confirms the presence of a hand of genius in the documents. reveal a huge penetration of US intelligence in the Russian Ministry of Defense and in the Wagner mercenary team, the concrete heart of the war and of the Kremlin’s military strategy.

A fact that if it were verified it would be an embarrassment for the alleged closed and impenetrable structure built by former KGB agent Vladimir Putin. But now its diffusion is enough to prove it.

There also seems to be a wink among the pros of these underworlds. For example, it is revealed that Israeli colleagues in the Mossad, that country’s famous foreign counterintelligence service, are among those who promote massive marches against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and his initiative to destroy the judiciary in that country. Remarkable.

The Mossad said nothing. We only know that Biden clearly repudiated that proposal. They are details.
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