Shrubbs Stalling Kiev’s Counteroffensive ‘Stupid’

"More than two months on, Kiev’s counteroffensive shows no sign of being successful as the
Ukrainian army’s losses in men and materiel continue to increase.

Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Larry Johnson has lashed out at the UK military over allegations about vegetation being a factor in stalling the advance of Ukrainian troops.

“Who knew that all the United States had to do to ensure the success of Ukraine’s counteroffensive was to provide them with a brigade of weed wackers, so they could have gone out there and cut down all the weeds,” Johnson said in an interview with a YouTube channel.

He spoke a few days after the UK Defense Ministry claimed in its regular intelligence update that “undergrowth regrowing” in the southern part of the front line in Ukraine remains a likely factor “contributing to the generally slow progress of combat in the area.”

Kiev has lost over 43,000 servicemen since the start of Ukraine's counteroffensive." Sputnik

CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Intelligence Assets Around the World

"Top American counterintelligence officials sent a memo that warned every CIA station
around the world about a troubling number of intelligence assets who had been killed, disappeared, or captured in recent years. The memo actually gave a specific number of agents — a highly unusual inclusion but one that demonstrates the seriousness of the situation......The large number of compromised informants in recent years also demonstrated the growing prowess of other countries in employing innovations like biometric scans, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and hacking tools to track the movements of C.I.A. officers in order to discover their sources." PJMedia