Kos covered many aspects of the document leak over the weekend and again on Monday, so I’m not going to spend much time on the details of what they include this morning except to say: We still don’t know if this is real, fake, or disinformation created by any one of several potential sources.
But wait, doesn’t the outrage and the warnings from U.S. officials that this information should not be spread mean … nope.
Surely all the statements about anger from allies, concern about lost credibility with Ukraine, and the desperate hunt for the leaker means that … nope.
Well, at least information casting doubt on Ukraine’s abilities proves … nope.
The purpose of disinformation is to look like real information, including treating the release of that disinformation as if it were real information. We don’t know. We won’t know unless the U.S. announces that someone has been arrested and charged with the release of this information. We can’t even be sure then.
That’s a good thing—because Moscow is in exactly the same position.