Thread by @KitKlarenberg

🧵: NATO and arms industry-funded 'think tank' @cepa offers explanation for blackout on Kiev's counteroffensive among #NAFO and Western media - being honest about how catastrophically it's going so far risks ending Western backing for the proxy war.

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.@cepa acknowledges 2022 counteroffensive successful because "Ukraine faced overstretched, severely undermanned Russian units." This was observed by several analysts at the time, but dismissed as cope by #NAFO et al. Only now media admitting positions were effectively abandoned.

Expectations for this counteroffensive not only high due to delusion and disinfo about last go around. Petraeus said it was "going to be very impressive". Perhaps covering for fact US was pressuring Kiev to go ahead with this, despite knowing the Ukrainians weren't ready.

CEPA paints bleak picture of frontline, acknowledging Kiev effectively trying to do the impossible - "conduct large-scale combined arms maneuver operations against a near-peer or peer adversary" without air cover. Also admit "Russia [has achieved] some of its original goals."

In sum @cepa effectively admitting what anti-war voices have consistently said - media (and pro-NATO 'think tanks') actively complicit in one way or another obscuring reality to keep this grinding on, and concealing proxy war's catastrophic human, material and financial cost.

CEPA of course has an obvious + massive vested interest in ensuring Western arms keep flowing into the conflict - ensuring profits of the numerous 'defense' contractors that fund it keep soaring. Why is the media helping them maintain the lie, do you think?

ADDENDUM: In 2016, CEPA published a report calling for individuals exposed to Russian "disinformation" to be subjected to the same "deradicalisation" measures as "former Islamic radicals and far-right extremists." Oddly, this has since been removed from the web.

Amen.