Former CIA Officer Mike Baker On Bad Intelligence And Putin Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Former CIA Officer Mike Baker On Bad Intelligence And Putin--Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

• Here’s a snippet on the Russo-Ukrainian War from an interview Joe Rogan did with former CIA officer Mike Baker last week.

Some takeaways:

Putin has been “pretty damn consistent over the years.”

If you look at what he did in Chechnya, if you look at what he did helping Assad in Syria, if you look at what he did annexing Crimea, if you look at Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia. Every step of the way he’s been following in his mind this stated desire, that he’s made very public over the years, to rebuild his sphere of influence.

We were too optimistic, thinking that he was thinking like we do in a rational process.

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