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Pentagon leaks who gains?

 Last week there was a major leak out of the Pentagone into social media.  Why did this happen and who gains?  At first blush it is the Ukrainian forces that would suffer, but on closer examination that makes no sense, since the damage would have been worse if only the Russians know their attack strategy.

However, there were a lot of comments about Russian forces and how dispirited they were.  Let’s assume that the Russians knew about Kiev strategy already this would be a perfect platform to show that things in Russia were going badly.   I mean it’s a leak!!!

Two ideas the first is that Ukrainian have similar military strategy to the Russians, but now the Ukrainian not only have western equipment they have western strategies available, and the success of the Ukrainians has been driven by quick thinking, nationhood and adaptation.  Western trained Ukrainian soldiers are returning to the country with new equipment and new strategies.  Second, Russia has so far been able to hide the disaster that is the war in Ukrainian, it is possible that the stories of the leaked papers will make it to the Russian media…disinformation 

Finally, and not related to the the Pentagon papers the Russian government has extended the draft to ethnic Russians, until now it is minorities that have been drafted.  It is harder to hide général conscription than what the Russian government had been doing.

I suspect that Putin is now starting to wonder how he can extricate himself from this war without losing power…maybe Beijing will offer a cunning plan!

On a final note the perpetrators of the leak has apparently already been found, not exactly James Bond here.  It seems he was trying to impress his far right friends.

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