Benjamin Franklin is credited with coining the idiom “a small leak will sink a great ship.” Though Franklin was talking about unnecessary spending, it holds water for most anything in business and politics. It seems there has been a leak regarding Ukraine’s odds in its ongoing war with Russia—and it’s not a small one.
A leak of classified documents, some labeled “top secret,” from U.S. intelligence agencies allege that Ukraine could fall “well short” of its ambitions with the much anticipated counteroffensive it plans to mount this spring. The U.S. intelligence assessment warns that difficulties for Ukraine massing troops (Ukraine is basically operating with a conscripted fighting force), as well as mustering enough ammunition and equipment (almost completely provided by Western nations), could lead to “force generation and sustainment shortfalls,” that result in only “modest territorial gains.”
The New York Times , the first to break the story, said many of […]
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