Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymer Zelensky lied when asked whether he was informed by the White House about leaks by 21-year-old Private First Class Jack Teixeira on the discussion portal Discord. When the leaks first happened 60-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed his 40-year-old Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba that classified files about the Ukraine war were leaked on the Internet, exposing discrepancies in statements by Ukraine’s Defense Department. All information from Kiev runs through 37-year-old Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s information minister. Nothing Budanov says is anything but the most crass propaganda, only talking about Russian failures, something picked up by the U.S. press and reported widely in broadcast and print outlets. Budanov routinely exaggerates Russian casualties, repeated by U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley.
Miley repeats Budanov’s propaganda, feeding the same rubbish to U.S. broadcast and print outlets. Teixeira’s disclosures of Top Secret Pentagon files show wild discrepancies in U.S. and Ukrainian estimates of Russian casualties. Kuleba and Budanov never report factual information about Ukrainian casualty rates. Ukraine’s 56-year-old Oleksil Reznikov Defense Secretary insists that Western powers, especially the United States, underestimated the success of Ukraine’s forces. Yet Zelensky never admits anything about Ukraine’s losses battling the Kremlin. After 14-months of war, Zelensky lost some 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, including the entire Black Sea Coast and all its strategic ports. Yet if you asked Zelensky, Kuleba, Budanov or Reznikov, Ukraine hasn’t lost any of its sovereign territory. Defense Minister Reznikov doesn’t admit the Kiev government is bankrupt.
Zelensky insisted, despite Kuleba’s conversation with Blinken, that he was not informed about Teixeira’s leaks of Top Secret files. :I did not receive information from the White House or the Pentagon beforehand,” Zelensky said. “We did not have that information. I personally did not. It’s definitely a bad story,” referring the Washington Post saying Zelensky was in fact informed about Teixeira’s leaks. Zelensky, Kuleba, Resnikov and Budanov are all on the same page deceiving the U.S. and NATO about Ukrainian casualties or, more importantly, how they deplete U.S. and NATO war materiel at a record rate. “It is unprofitable for us,” Zelensky said. “It is not beneficial to the reputation of the White House, and I believe its is not beneficial to the reputation of the United States,” Zelensky said, regarding admitting its real casualty numbers or how much ordnance is burned up.
Zelensky and his national security team constantly lie about what’s really happening on the battlefield, fearing U.S. or NATO lawmakers would get fed up with the war. White House officials have been playing the same game with Zelensky, exaggerating battlefield success, minimizing Ukrainian casualties and loss of sovereign territory. Deputy Defense Secretary Wendy Sherman admitted to informing Ukrainian officials about the Pentagon leaker, raising discrepancies in stories between Kiev and Washington. Members in Congress have been deceived by Zelensky thinking Russia has failed in the war effort, largely due to fiercely loyal Ukrainian soldiers. Zelensky blames the U.S. for leaking factual information about the real war effort, deviating from what’s reported in the press. Teixeira’s leaks prove that Zelensky has been minimizing losses to the Russian Federation.
Ukraine’s 56-year-old Defense Secretary Reznikov said the West underestimated the success of the Ukraine’s battle against the Kremlin. Reznikov said U.S. elected officials thought Russia would take over Kiev early on in the conflict. When that didn’t happen, Resnikov touted the courage and skill of the Russian military. If Reznikov told the truth, he’s admit that without U.S. cash-and-lethal-weapons, the Kremlin would have defeated Kiev long ago. Reznikov can’t admit that the bankrupt Ukrainian government would not be able to prosecute the war against the Kremlin. Kremlin officials know that the war in Ukraine is between Washington and Moscow, not between Kiev and Moscow. Zelensky insists that he was not informed about the Pentagon leaks, something denied by Blinken and Sherman. White House officials can’t deny that Zelensky has not been telling the truth about the Ukraine War.
Zelensky said that all the hype about a Ukrainian counteroffensive exaggerates Ukraines preparedness to take on the Russian army, ridding them of Ukraine’s territory.
Sp,ewjere it’s hype, somewhere it’ scandal,” Zelensky said. “For us, anything that informs our enemy in advance in one way or another is definitely a minus for us. I didn’t see any advantages,” Zelensky said, referring White House officials know full well that Kiev doesn’t feed the U.S. and foreign press factual information about the Ukraine War. Zelensky sees his duty of not rocking the boat when it comes the amount of cash-and-arms Kiev receives to run the government and prosecute the war. “People ask me, who benefits from this? My answer is very simple—I don’t have the time to figure out who benefits from this. I’m looking at who doesn’t benefit from it,” referring how Pentagon leaks expose discrepancies in Zelensky’s war assessments. Zelensky admits lying to the U.S. is a matter of survival for Kiev.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
