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Another All-Time Media Faceplant<\/a><\/h3>\n

After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was a joke, you idiots.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

If cluelessness can be art, American journalists unveiled their Sistine Chapel this week, in a remarkable collection of misreports and hack stenography surrounding a predicted invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The mess began last Friday, February 11th, when National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan gave an address\u00a0warning<\/a>\u00a0American citizens to evacuate Ukraine. \u201cIf a Russian attack on Ukraine proceeds, it is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality,\u201d he said. \u201cI will not comment on the details of our intelligence information,\u201d he added, before doing just that: \u201cI do want to be clear: It could begin during the Olympics,\u201d i.e. before the Beijing games end on February 20th.<\/p>\n

Around the time of Sullivan\u2019s comments, American reporters began telling audiences a curiously detailed story about upcoming Russian invasion plans. PBS\u00a0NewsHour\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Nick Schifrin cited \u201cthree Western and defense sources\u201d in saying Vladimir Putin had already made up his mind to invade. He then cited\u00a0six<\/em>\u00a0sources \u2014\u00a0\u201cUS and Western officials\u201d \u2014 who told him the U.S. expected an invasion of Ukraine the following week. These voices left little to the imagination, saying the invasion would be a \u201chorrific, bloody campaign,\u201d with two days of aerial bombardment, followed by electronic warfare and possible regime change:<\/p>\n

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US officials anticipate a horrific, bloody campaign that begins with two days or aerial bombardment and electronic warfare, followed by an invasion, with the possible goal of regime change.<\/a><\/p>\n

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February 11th 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another All-Time Media Faceplant After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion \u201cIt was a joke, you idiots.\u201d If cluelessness can be art, American journalists unveiled their Sistine Chapel this week, in a remarkable collection of misreports and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32668,3733,512,694,821,827],"class_list":["post-61928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-faceplant","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-media","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61929,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61928\/revisions\/61929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}