There they go once more: NYT serves up spy fantasy about Russian ‘bounties’ on US troops in Afghanistan

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Brace yourselves for one more breathless Russia bombshell: The New York Occasions says US spies assume Moscow could have supplied Taliban bounty cash to kill US troops in Afghanistan and Trump was informed however did nothing about it! Impeach!

“American intelligence officers have concluded Russian army intelligence unit secretly supplied bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan,” begins the story, printed on Friday afternoon, and citing “officers briefed on the matter.” 

This “intelligence discovering” was briefed to President Donald Trump in late March, however the White Home “has but to authorize” any of the proposed responses, in line with the Occasions.

Inside minutes, a former FBI official (now working at NBC) was declaring Trump “Putin’s puppet,” whereas Congressman Ted Lieu (D-California) stated the shortage of response “suggests [Trump] could also be beholden to Putin.”

The story itself – hidden behind the Occasions’s paywall, after all, so the commoners not subscribed to their unmatched knowledge can solely go on the clickbaity headline – is that the unnamed US intelligence officers “concluded” Russian unit “linked to” an enormous conspiracy towards the West secretly supplied cash to the Taliban, and “Islamist militants, or armed prison parts intently related with them, are believed to have collected” a few of it in some unspecified time in the future, possibly.

This evaluation is “stated to be based mostly at the very least partially on interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals,” who’re completely reliable and would under no circumstances ever say something to attempt to keep away from torture in Afghan prisons, globally often called bastions of human rights and democracy. 

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You’re not supposed to note all of the qualifiers and weasel phrases, nevertheless, however concentrate on the razzle-dazzle “details” such because the totally baseless declare that Russia is conducting a “so-called hybrid battle towards the US, a technique of destabilizing adversaries by means of a mixture of such techniques as cyberattacks, the unfold of pretend information and covert and deniable army operations.” This assertion, by the way in which, is talked about in passing as a longtime and unquestionable truth, a favourite tactic of propaganda-peddlers wherever.

However wait, there’s extra. The nameless officers stated the spies had “assessed” the operation to be the work of “Unit 29155” of the “GRU,” which is “linked to the March 2018 nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury” – the notorious Skripal incident that the UK “extremely doubtless” declared the work of Russia after which handled that assertion as truth. Supposedly, there’s “uncertainty” amongst US spies whether or not it is a rogue operation or one licensed from the very high of the Kremlin.

In the event you can’t belief nameless intelligence officers, in any case, who can you belief? It’s not as if the US “intelligence group” had accused Russia of “hacking our democracy” based mostly on a dodgy file written by a British spy and paid for by Hillary Clinton’s marketing campaign, so as to get the FBI to spy on President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign earlier than and after the 2016 election, proper? All based mostly on “assessments” and beliefs, no much less! We must always completely belief them once they speak about rogue spy operations – in Russia, clearly, what did you assume I used to be suggesting?

Moreover, it’s not as if the New York Occasions – that bastion of truth-telling that earned quite a few Pulitzers for ‘Russiagate’ protection – might ever print one thing that wasn’t totally vetted and correctly sourced, proper? I imply, the story has 4 – 4 – bylines, and the newsroom didn’t revolt the way in which that they had over the latest op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton, so it should be unimpeachably true! 

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Buried deep contained in the story is the admission that the Taliban “haven’t attacked American positions” since February, after the US signed an settlement with the militants to withdraw from Afghanistan. That, by the way in which, was greeted with wailing and gnashing of the tooth by the US political institution – together with the Occasions – which has been dedicated to having different folks combat and die in Afghanistan ceaselessly within the identify of democracy, human rights or… one thing. Clearly, Trump is just pulling out of there not as a result of he disapproves of Individuals dying in infinite international wars however due to Russia!

By all means, go forward and take at face worth the evidence-free assertions of a newspaper whose mendacious 1619 Undertaking is in nice half answerable for setting US race relations on fireplace, and the nation with them – and sourced to nameless spies who’ve been constantly and terrifyingly flawed on nearly every little thing. Sufficient of you’ve finished it sufficient of the time to this point, and look how properly it has labored out!

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