DK on Nostr: So here's a funny story Yesterday, some documents purporting to be genuine NATO intel ...
So here's a funny story
Yesterday, some documents purporting to be genuine NATO intel digests were leaked on Russian social media
I didn't even hear about it because it was basically not reported on by reputable sources, under the assumption it was fake
However, the NYT just confirmed that the leak was real and the documents are authentic according to the Pentagon. Their only point of contention is that the documents were supposedly "modified" to change the top secret classified *ACTUAL* American estimate of combat losses for internal consumption. The documents as leaked note approximately 16k RU KIA and 72k UA KIA.
Take a look at the documents though. These are clearly paper copies. Meaning that the CIA's claim here is that someone took unauthorized photographs of authentic physical paper documents, digitally altered them in one and only one (albeit politically/psychologically crucial) respect, printed them out again, and finally took photographs of the authentic-except-for-this-one-little-detail documents to spread on Russian social media.
In brief: lol, lmao
nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/politics/ukraine-war-plan-russia.html
Published at
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