Jochen Spangenberg@shaunwalker7.bsky.social on the role and predictions of intelligence services in the run-up of #Russia‘s war against #Ukraine. While the US and British services saw it coming, the services of France and Germany didn’t get it until shortly before the full-scale invasion, according to Walker.
A war foretold: how the CIA an...
A war foretold: how the CIA an...
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them