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Baitball Blogger

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Sat Mar 12, 2022, 01:18 PM Mar 2022

So, Putin is firing his FSB intelligence officers at lightening speed. [View all]

It's an admission that he went into this war with false intel. He thought Ukraine would be a 2-15 day operation. The assessment I've read is that he only has himself to blame because he was intentionally looking for an opportunity to attack. And the underlings gave him what he wanted.

Couldn't help thinking that this also happened when GWBII was president. He wanted a reason to invade Iraq, and his inner circle, Condoleza Rice, Colin Powell and others were only too happy to be the public face to serve the cooked up Yellow Cake false meme. Wish Bush would have fired them all, like Putin did.

How unlucky we all are, in this time in history, to have a slew of leaders who have risen to the highest levels of government, where they are allowed to create false perceptions of the world, and act upon them.

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Fired? lame54 Mar 2022 #1
Fired as in BANG fired? or hit the street BANG? mitch96 Mar 2022 #6
It could also be a purge. hadEnuf Mar 2022 #23
Maybe Putin caught FSB plotting against him? Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #2
Maybe Zelenskyy's Trolling Is Having An Effect smb Mar 2022 #12
Zelensky is using Putin's KGB background against him. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #15
Usual way to find moles is to give different fake intel to different agents... Lucky Luciano Mar 2022 #22
Which means Putin is now busy mole hunting. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #27
People in Putin's inner circle are probably about as nervous as those in Kim Jong-Un's. TheBlackAdder Mar 2022 #14
Yes that is certainly the case now, 2 FSB chiefs, and 8 generals fired. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #16
More likely gulaged, windowed or poloniumed...nt wcmagumba Mar 2022 #3
He put 2 under house arrest....probably includes meals with tea PortTack Mar 2022 #4
By an open window with a lovely view... Hugin Mar 2022 #5
One can't expect too much moondust Mar 2022 #7
A tyrant can always find someone to blame for his personal failures, he has to because Chainfire Mar 2022 #8
Whom does he think will do the job better than them? no_hypocrisy Mar 2022 #9
Putrid Thinks They're A Bunch Of "Dopes" And "Babies"... smb Mar 2022 #13
Putin thinks he is smarter than the whole lot of them. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #17
"He wanted a reason to invade Iraq" I thought it was Cheney and his oil buddies whispering mitch96 Mar 2022 #10
I agree. Putin thought he would emerge as the 21st century superpower. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #18
That didn't help. Cheney definitely had his own agenda, which probably was Baitball Blogger Mar 2022 #19
When Ken Lay of Enron had his own office in the WH laying out the oil fields I knew enough. Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #24
Like the Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Cheney cake walk. CentralMass Mar 2022 #11
My understanding is the FSB controls the actual nuclear warheads Fiendish Thingy Mar 2022 #20
How out of touch is this supposedly TOP TIER KGB Russian Operative (Putin). How SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #21
Or his he throwing them out of 15 story buildings..... turbinetree Mar 2022 #25
Putin and Trump are alike. They get angry if the information they get isn't what they expect. patphil Mar 2022 #26
+1 Baitball Blogger Mar 2022 #28
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