Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Psaki: We had no idea Ukraine would sink that ship with the intel we provided
After the Ukrainians sank the Moskva, leaks from the intelligence community made it sound as if the Biden administration was doing an end-zone dance. This clearly didn’t sit well with the Russians, who have been issuing increasingly strident warnings about direct western participation in Ukraine’s defense. And the loss of one of their flagships was likely more of an embarrassing defeat than Putin cared to stomach. That’s why the White House was put off when major news outlets began running headlines saying it was our intelligence data that allowed Ukraine’s forces to send the Moskva down to Davey Jones’ locker. Yesterday, White House and Pentagon spokespeople were dispatched to spin the story differently, implying that the United States had no interest in what targets were attacked and the Ukrainians did it all on their own.
