White House press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson ‘matched’ even Secretary of State Blincoln
EU diplomats are also “surrounded by yes men”… Kremlin Shaking Tactics
The US government, Joe Biden, said on the 30th (local time) that there has been a growing distrust and tension between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military and aides. It is pointed out that the US’ active disclosure of information may be part of a psychological warfare to influence Putin’s judgment.
White House press secretary Kate Bedingfield (pictured) said at a briefing that “we have information that Putin feels misled by the Russian military and that this is continuing tensions between Putin and the Russian military.” “I think Putin is being misinformed about how badly the Russian military is performing on the battlefield and how serious the Russian economy is with sanctions because Putin’s advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth,” he added.
“So it is becoming increasingly clear that Putin’s war was a strategic mistake, which weakens Russia in the long run and isolates it from the world stage,” Bedingfield said. He did not disclose the source of the information, citing the risk that the source and means of collecting information would be disclosed.
“We agree with the conclusion that Putin did not receive complete information from his Pentagon,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at the briefing. “It’s a bit disturbing that he may not have all the context and he may not fully understand the extent to which his military is failing in Ukraine,” Kirby said. If Putin fails to make an informed decision, he fears that the credibility of the ceasefire negotiations between Russia and Ukraine could be undermined.
US media reported that an unnamed government official said that “Putin was unaware that his army was sending conscripts to Ukraine to sacrifice them.” Earlier this month, President Putin announced to the Russian people that he would not take conscripts into battle after it became known that a large number of Russian conscripts had been killed in Ukraine.
Secretary of State Tony Blincoln, who is visiting Algeria, said at a press conference that “one of the Achilles heels of a dictatorship is that there is no one in power to tell the truth.” Europe also countered that the US assessment was in line with their views. “Putin thought things were going better than they really were,” said a senior EU diplomat, The Guardian said. When President Putin meets with foreign leaders or aides, he is sarcastic about sitting at both ends with a characteristic long table in between.
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, questions have been raised in the Western media as to whether Putin is receiving accurate information. However, it is highly likely that the authorities’ publicly mentioned information was intentional. First, there is an observation that it is to induce an accurate judgment of the situation by forcing Putin to reconsider his trust in the yes-men around him. It could also be a tactic to fuel distrust between Putin and his aides, adding to the confusion in the decision-making of the Kremlin.
The U.S. is considered to have achieved considerable results by actively disclosing relevant information when Russia assembled a large-scale military force near the border with Ukraine at the end of last year. In the end, it did not prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but Russia’s false agitation was able to block the possibility of penetrating public opinion and induce a coordinated response from the West.
