Former USMC officer Scott Ritter about Russian special operation
The one place that the Russians are failing right now is the propaganda aspect. I’m not saying that I want the Russians to lie, but it would be nice if the Russians put some perspective to what they’re facing.
The CIA is deeply embedded with Ukrainian ministry of information and is responsible for running what’s called an information operation, this is a covert or political action operation that’s been sanctioned by the president of United States. The reason why it has to be sanctioned is the CIA normally isn’t allowed to manipulate information in a manner that affects the American public meaning they can tell lies and they do this very effectively, but they can’t tell lies in a way that affects how the Americans view a subject.
They’re doing that right now – they’re running an information operation very sophisticated that’s designed to achieve a political result in Russia. Their goal is actually regime change.