The leak of over 100 classified documents pertaining to America’s national-security strategy in theaters ranging from Europe to Asia to the Middle East was immediately deemed a “nightmare” by unnamed intelligence officials. The documents that pertain to U.S. efforts to assist Ukraine’s resistance against a Russian invasion prompted some particularly apoplectic commentary about how that mission is going.
Did the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who leaked these files — only, apparently, to show off to online acquaintances — “blow up Ukraine’s war effort?” asked the Toronto Star. The documents tell a “chilling story” about the direction in which Russia’s war might be headed according to Washington Post analyst David Ignatius. Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson alleged that the documents reveal both that the tide has turned against Kyiv and, as a result, the U.S. is engaged in direct “fighting” with Russian forces, rendering America’s support for Ukraine both a criminal enterprise and a worthless one. “Ukraine is losing,” he declared.
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