To me this translates to, “America’s military is being led incompetently and we don’t want anyone to see the real damage being done to it.”

Jesus fucking Christ, this is the stupidest possible way to start WWIII.

Satellite services are pretty amenable to hiding sensitive parts of the world: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_satellite_map_images_w…

It seems totally on-brand for the US government to request that bits of the war zone be hidden, and it’s entirely on brand for satellite companies to hide them.

Yeah it’s normal to ask for a warzone - but this isn’t a war of course.

The US government: “It’s just a special military operation, absolutely not a war. Hmmm? Department of War, no no it’s always been Department of Defense”.

Meanwhile, Trump: “The war…”

Are they really using the same terminology as Putin?