U.S. Intel Sources : Russian Invasion of Eastern Ukraine Increasingly Likely
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/27/us_intel_sources_russian_invasion_of_eastern_ukraine_increasingly_lik
American intelligence agencies have told Obama administration officials and key congressional staffers that there is mounting evidence that Russia is putting the pieces in place for an invasion of eastern Ukraine, and that the possibility of an imminent assault cannot be ruled out, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Still, the intelligence officials have been careful not to offer a definitive conclusion that Moscow will invade or to predict the precise timing of a Russian military operation in Ukraine.
En bon français, ça donne p’tet’ ben qu’oui, p’têt’ ben qu’non
On y ajoute…
Assessing the intentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been hampered by the fact that the U.S. has alarmingly little in the way of signals intelligence, or intercepted communications, that would indicate that he had decided to invade or when a strike was scheduled to start, one official said. Despite the tens of billions of dollars given to the intelligence community each year, the United States also has no real-time video footage coming from drones in the region and is relying largely on still photos from satellites, another official said.
(c’est moi qui souligne)
#NSA, tout ça pour ça !