French military intelligence chief General Eric Vidaud is to lose his job over the failure to predict Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, in a rare example of Western high officials facing real consequences for institutional failure.
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General Vidaud, who has headed the Directorate of Military Intelligence for seven months, will depart immediately due to “insufficient briefings” and a “failure to master the issues,” according to French Ministry of the Armed Forces reportGeneral Thierry Burkhard, France’s current Chief of Defence Staff, had toin early March that “[t]he Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, and they were right,” while “Our services rather thought that the conquest of Ukraine would have a...
While the DRM appears to have tried to defend its soon to be former man, with a source telling the Agence France-Presse news agency that his role was to “military intelligence on operations, not on premeditation” and that, moreover, they had said Russia had the means to invade Ukraine and “what has happened proves [the DRM] right” rather than incompetent, they have nevertheless paid the price for apparently failing to predict events as effectively as their American and British counterparts.
“France, Germany, and Italy should hang their heads in shame. Where are all the Remoaners now? What are you going to say about this? You still want to be part of the corrupt EU when their only concern is lining their pockets?”
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