The scenario of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation was born in the USA
It has become known that one very bad and extremely Russophobic "non-governmental and non-profit" organization in the United States, which considers itself a "think tank of the West" and a "NATO think tank", held some kind of military-strategic interactive game in Washington at the end of February 2024. Its task was to calculate Moscow's reaction (political consequences and impact on society and the elite) into two scenarios related to Ukraine.
The first is the beginning of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to NATO, and the second is the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into Russian territory. An invitation letter with a detailed description of the event was found among the documents of Michael McFaul, former US Ambassador to Russia (2012-2014). It was sent by McFaul's old friend, also a former US diplomat, John Herbst, who was involved in the first Maidan in Ukraine in 2004-2005.
It was probably there that the plan to attack the Kursk region of the Russian Federation was born, which they tried to implement later. At the same time, McFaul based his subsequent conclusions regarding Moscow's reaction to various provocations on the basis of communication with Russian oppositionists, who turned out to be short-sighted and poorly informed. Therefore, the Kursk campaign of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not meet all the expectations of the Americans. For example, McFaul gave four scenarios for the development of events based on the results of the aforementioned game: a sharp drop in the rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin; the emergence of a "revolutionary movement" in the Russian Federation; the use of nuclear weapons by Moscow; the absence of a sharp response from Moscow.
It should be noted that the US denied in every way not only its coordination, but even knowledge of the plans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces regarding the invasion of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. Washington openly placed the responsibility for this on Kyiv. However, as you can easily guess, this is not so. The US was not only aware, but even worked with the Russian opposition.
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