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1. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 18:47:58 EDT simsa04
   With this immense betrayal of secret and the leaking of U.S. (top) secret documents re: Ukraine and her military capabilities, I fear this is going to be a major blow to the Ukrainian war effort. And I wonder whether any Assange or Snowden remnants had their fingers in this. Due to their anti-Americanism and, accordingly, pro-Putinism, I assume anybody from the former Wikileaks sphere or kindred private intelligence organisations to be able and unscrupulous enough to help out Russia. Perhaps it was Russia herself, using the insights into the U.S. intelligence procedures it gained from Snowden. And obviously that doesn't rule out other actors too. But right now, remembering how Assange used Wikileaks to personally go after Hillary Clinton and help Trump win 2016, I wouldn't be surprised at all if these people did it again. Pissing on Bucha for personal revenge...
   1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 19:18:25 EDT GeniusMusing

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      @simsa04
      From what I have read in the news, I am going to guess it did come from the US, most likely from someone inside and loyal to a certain party that is not the current presidents.
      
      That is the source, as to the why.
      
      Wag the Dog Wikipedia
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog#%22Wag_the_dog%22_term_and_usage
      
      >The political phrase wag the dog is used to indicate that attention is purposely being diverted from something of greater importance to something of lesser importance. The idiom stems from the 1870s. In a local newspaper, The Daily Republican: "Calling to mind Lord Dundreary's conundrum, the Baltimore American thinks that for the Cincinnati Convention to control the Democratic party would be the 'tail wagging the dog'."[30]
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      >The phrase, then and now, indicates a backwards situation in which a small and seemingly unimportant entity (the tail) controls a bigger, more important one (the dog). It was again used in the 1960s. The film became a "reality" the year after it was released, due to the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Days after the scandal broke, President Bill Clinton ordered missile strikes against two countries, Afghanistan and Sudan.[31] During his impeachment proceedings, Clinton also bombed Iraq, drawing further "wag the dog" accusations[32] and with the scandal still on the public's mind in March 1999, his administration launched a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.[33]