Russia and Ukraine

[Ivan Denisovich]

Tulsi Gabbard tweeted this just now:

Deep State warmongers and their Propaganda Media are again trying to undermine President Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine—and indeed Europe—by falsely claiming that the ‘U.S. intelligence community’ agrees to and supports EU/NATO viewpoint that Russia’s aim is to invade/conquer Europe (in order to gin up support for their pro-war policies). The truth is that ‘US intelligence’ assesses that Russia does not even have the capability to conquer and occupy Ukraine, what to speak of ‘invading and occupying’ Europe.

She's the Director of National Intelligence.

This points to a contradiction that we hear a lot:

1) Russia is incompetent, all of its good soldiers have been killed and they're sending unmotivated office staff to the front, their weapons are all gone and were inferior anyway, it can't do military strategy, and

2) Russia is an imminent threat to Europe.

But again, any statement from "the intelligence community" should be taken with extreme skepticism.

No matter how incompetent (and as war shows answer is really, really incompetent) putler jackboots are they still can kill civilians and damage infrastructure. There is also propaganda to consider so russia while inept in general still might be threat.