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Bear in mind that the author has said “I am a prisoner of my sources”, thus saying that he generally writes what those persons desire… Some 😉 would say he’s a propagandist… with that caution cast eyes on the latest august propaganda by Herr Hersh:
SEYMOUR HERSH
Substack Paywall Subscriber SUBSTACK.COMNO END IN SIGHT FOR UKRAINE
Hopes for and end [sic] to the war have dwindled / OCTOBER 2, 2025Fragment>
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting during the World Atomic Week international forum last week in Moscow. / Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.
A recent series of interviews with knowledgeable American officials, some linked to the Trump White House and others with long-standing diplomatic ties to Russia, has made it clear to this reporter that there is no end in sight for the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine that was initiated in February 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Still unyielding, Putin is now seen by some intelligence experts in the Trump administration as vulnerable in the long run, despite Russia’s current vast superiority in manpower, wealth, and seized Ukrainian territory. There is revived talk—pernicious perhaps—about Putin being obsessed by a desire to be seen among the most famed of Russian leaders, such as Peter the Great, the eighteenth-century tsar who spent twenty-one years of warfare conquering land from the Baltics to the Black Sea.
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“…resident Trump’s hot-and-cold relationship with Putin seemed to be having some success after his second inauguration in January. There was early talk about settling the war: Russia could consolidate its gains on the ground in Ukraine and the US would gain access—perhaps through a friendly private company—to rare earth minerals along with a chance to develop resorts in Crimea and at least one of the Russian-controlled provinces in occupied Ukraine.
The American official’s view is that Putin’s economic position has deteriorated since then. “Putin cannot act alone” in continuing the war. “He needs money and structures to support him. He is not a Superman. What else can he win? What is he in this war for? What is his objective?”
The official continued: “It’s not about conquering Europe. He’s not Catherine the Great” (who overthrew her husband and became empress of Russia for more than three decades in the late eighteenth century). “He’s got to know he has limited resources.”
“At one time,” the official said, in the American-led negotiations to end the war with Ukraine, “There was an agreement that you”— Putin—“would get the land” that Russia had won in the war—at least three provinces—and “Ukraine would get peace. And now,” he added, referring to more recent talks, “we told Putin he can’t get any of it. The president said lan…”
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“That is probably going to require a different Ukrainian government,” Matlock said, “because Zelensky will probably be assassinated by the Neo-Nazis if he makes such a deal.”
Matlock’s wisecrack about Zelensky reminded of a horrid lapse in judgment I made, as a journalist, last July when I reported that there were significant elements in the American intelligence community—honorable professionals—who wanted President Zelensky out of office—quickly—to make way for a Ukrainian general who was considered more trustworthy. I also wrote that if Zelensky refused to leave, he would “go by force.”
The wishes of even the best and best intentioned in the US intelligence community don’t always come true. ENDE
I am disinclined to post the entire article, which is at, sorry, “Locals”… too long and too silly and maybe some fink would object…
So! What are the implications inherent it this propaganda, why has the author said, been said?
Who’s Sorry Now? : Gloria DeHaven
Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/details/78_whos-sorry-now_gloria-dehaven-snyder-kalmar-ruby-andre-previn-and-m-g-m-studio-or_gbia0035414g
Who’s sorry now
Who’s sorry now
Whose heart is aching for breaking each vow
Who’s sad and blue
Who’s crying too
Just like I cried over youto Right the end
like Just a friend
I tried to warn you somehow
You had your way
Now you must pay
I’m glad that you’re sorry nowto Right the end
like Just a friend
I tried to warn you somehow
You had your way
Now you must pay
I’m glad that you’re sorry nowConnie Francis
Cocaine Blues ….
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