• wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The U.S. officials familiar with the information that Washington shared with Moscow spoke on the condition of anonymity

    They always do, don’t they.

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        3 months ago

        So you just trust them to be honest and truthful, and to not make stuff up in order to promote their narrative? I have this very nice bridge you will be interested in, great value only one previous owner.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah right sure because whistleblowers never suffer any consequences

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      3 months ago

      You do know that the person writing the article knows who they are, right?

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          After the State Department told their Russian counterparts directly, they then told the world – via a public security release for State Department employees in Russia, with only the specific target withheld – on March 7 what they had told the Russians privately immediately prior:

          https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/

          I got the link from media articles that included it in post-attack coverage, which I first got from Lemmy immediately after the attack, and just now retrieved it all from my history, which means it was out there and well known.

          It also means that in today’s episode of Stroke or Drunk? Putin is back again as a confused contestant. From today’s WaPo article on the same subject:

          The Russian leader himself publicly dismissed U.S. warnings just three days before the March 22 attack, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize our society.” Archive link

          Are you calling Vladimir Putin a liar? Are you saying he isn’t trustworthy? Are you implying strongly that his brain is being turned into mush by tertiary syphilis and he is delusional, unable to navigate even a simple calendar? Are you asserting that Vladimir Putin doesn’t know today from yesterday, or tomorrow from last month?

          Because it sounds like you are.

          Seeing what you’ve written makes me trust media more, and Putin less. Is that what you want? Because that’s what you got, lol.