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no kidding...

US Spies Say Putin’s Ukraine Goals Still Stretch Beyond Donbas

“We assess President Putin is preparing for prolonged conflict in Ukraine during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas” region, Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on “worldwide threats.” 

"Even as the conflict leaves Russia weaker, the country’s perception that “the United States is a nation in decline” could lead to it engaging in “more aggressive actions not only in Ukraine itself, but also more broadly in its perceived confrontation with the West,” Berrier said. 

(Seriously? You need a Lieutenant General / Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to tell you that? Who else could have ever figured such a thing but a hermit living in a garage without an internet connection...either that or the director(s) of National Intelligence/Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency ?)