Social Bob Woodward new book coming out

[HOLA]

50 years after Watergate this guy's still going. Definitely not low energy. Respect.

Some of the juicy claims:

1. Biden's national security team at one point was 50/50 on whether or not Putin was going to use nukes.
2. Biden regrets picking Merrick Garland.
3. Biden doesn't think Obama took Putin seriously enough. Criticizes Obama's handling of the 2014 invasion of Crimea. Thinks it gave Putin a license to continue.
4. U.S. intel discovered Putin's plans to invade Ukraine as early as Oct 2021. They have a human source inside The Kremlin.
5. Biden confronted Putin with intel twice in December. One convo was nearly 1 hour long and got heated, with Putin raising the risk of nuclear war in a threatening way.
6. Harris told Zelensky in Feb 2022 that invasion was imminent. Zelensky didn't believe it.
7. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told his Russian counterpart that if they used nukes 'Murica would eviscerate them. When his Russian counterpart expressed anger at being threatened Austin said "“I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”
8. The Russians were planning a fake news story. They were going to say Ukraine hit them with a "dirty bomb" as a pretext for using nukes. Lloyd called out their bullshit and they backed down.
9. During the worst days of Covid, when supplies were short, Trump personally sent Putin Covid testing kits. Putin told Trump not to tell anyone because people would get mad at Trump.
10. Trump has had as many as 7 conversations with Putin post-presidency. Trump makes aides leave the room during these, so he can have complete privacy.
11. Lindsey Graham says Trump's treatment at Maro Lardo is like something out of North Korea. Trump gets a standing ovation every time he enters a room. Graham claims Biden won fair and square. He claims Trump is getting more erratic.
12. Biden does not like Netanyahu at all. “That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad fucking guy! He's a fucking liar."
13. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has an aide walk around carrying 50 burner phones. One is labeled "Trump 45."

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

This guy would be President of the War Room

 

[Jack V Savage]

Crazy that so many people have let partisanship drive them to support a guy who threatened to nuke our country.

 

[lsa]

This guy would be President of the War Room

no, no thats wrong.
I should be President of the War Room

 

[filthybliss]

Just looked at this dude’s Wikipedia page…He’s a character.

Woodward often uses unnamed sources in his reporting for the Post and in his books. Using extensive interviews with firsthand witnesses, documents, meeting notes, diaries, calendars, and other documentation, Woodward attempts to construct a seamless narrative of events, most often told through the eyes of the key participants.

 

[Pliny Pete]

Will he get a new phone for Trump 47?

 

[filthybliss]

Crazy that so many people have let partisanship drive them to support a guy who threatened to nuke our country.

The Putin Apologist Loons are genuinely useful idiots at best….Pretty grotesque stuff that they are endorsing to own the libs.

Since the onset of the war, Ukrainian authorities have verified the abduction of approximately 19,000 children by Russian forces. These children, forcibly removed from their families, have been subjected to a regime of indoctrination in Russian camps and other atrocities. Russian authorities have even begun listing Ukrainian children on adoption websites, blatantly advertising them to potential adoptive families.

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by Russia

The crisis of abducted Ukrainian children is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

www.washingtontimes.com

 

[Yehudim]

Don’t think it’s good to let the world know we have a person inside the kremlin

 

[Jack V Savage]

Just looked at this dude’s Wikipedia page…He’s a character.

Woodward often uses unnamed sources in his reporting for the Post and in his books. Using extensive interviews with firsthand witnesses, documents, meeting notes, diaries, calendars, and other documentation, Woodward attempts to construct a seamless narrative of events, most often told through the eyes of the key participants.

He's a great reporter in some ways because he's really good at getting important people to talk (which does mean going off the record--remember his most famous unnamed source was Felt). Very credible. Not a good analyst or deep thinker, though, so anything that involves a lot of processing, you gotta worry about.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Don’t think it’s good to let the world know we have a person inside the kremlin

It's to create anxiety and paranoia. Information is heavily fractured, you can't go and open a drawer and find "Russia's Great Book of Evil Plans" anywhere. At most, if that person exists, he's a mood detector, not an information provider. if you manage to get ONE person inside your adversary's inner circle, you won't risk him with bullshit like tell me the number of tanks near the Kursk salient.

 

[HOLA]

It's to create anxiety and paranoia. Information is heavily fractured, you can't go and open a drawer and find "Russia's Great Book of Evil Plans" anywhere. At most, if that person exists, he's a mood detector, not an information provider. if you manage to get ONE person inside your adversary's inner circle, you won't risk him with bullshit like tell me the number of tanks near the Kursk salient.

The way Woodward explains it:

"It was an astonishing intelligence coup from the crown jewels of US intelligence, including a human source inside the Kremlin...It was as if they had secretly entered the enemy commander’s tent and were hunched over the maps, examining the number and movement of brigades and the entire planned sequence on the multifront invasion"

 

[Fox by the Sea]

The way Woodward explains it:

"It was an astonishing intelligence coup from the crown jewels of US intelligence, including a human source inside the Kremlin...It was as if they had secretly entered the enemy commander’s tent and were hunched over the maps, examining the number and movement of brigades and the entire planned sequence on the multifront invasion"

sounds very dramatic, but if it's true, it's indeed a very good result.

 

[Rational Poster]

Don’t think it’s good to let the world know we have a person inside the kremlin

Seems to be pretty good at freaking Putin out.

Dude seems pretty terrified and paranoid just in his day to day interactions with his own government.

Plus he looks ridiculous at the head of a 30 ft table with 2 other people.

 

[HOLA]

 

[Andy Capp]

Don’t think it’s good to let the world know we have a person inside the kremlin

It's to create anxiety and paranoia. Information is heavily fractured, you can't go and open a drawer and find "Russia's Great Book of Evil Plans" anywhere. At most, if that person exists, he's a mood detector, not an information provider. if you manage to get ONE person inside your adversary's inner circle, you won't risk him with bullshit like tell me the number of tanks near the Kursk salient.

Contrary to that, I'd say it's likely that when they confronted the Russians about their plans before anyone was supposed to know about them they probably figured the cat was out of the Kremlin spy bag.

 

[HOLA]

Seems to be pretty good at freaking Putin out.

Dude seems pretty terrified and paranoid just in his day to day interactions with his own government.

Plus he looks ridiculous at the head of a 30 ft table with 2 other people.

Putin's trolls on the internet: "It's just a cold, bro."

Putin IRL:

 

[filthybliss]

Putin's trolls on the internet: "It's just a cold, bro."

Putin IRL:

I think it’s fair to say since the war started that he ain’t the most powerful man in the world. Xi Jinping mogs him now.

 

[Rational Poster]

I think it’s fair to say since the war started that he ain’t the most powerful man in the world. Xi Jinping mogs him now.

There's been quite a lot of tinfoil hat stuff that Xi also has been soft coup'd and the new party bosses are just keeping him around for appearances.

They're in a pretty shit spot economically, one child policy seriously fucked their demographics, then burning bridges with the entire west is going to put them in a bind, all for some near ancient territorial grievances they've been doing quite fine without for a while now.

China relies on the US for food imports, being so adversarial isn't going to work for them long term.

Strongest man in the world still sits here.

 

[filthybliss]

There's been quite a lot of tinfoil hat stuff that Xi also has been soft coup'd and the new party bosses are just keeping him around for appearances.

They're in a pretty shit spot economically, one child policy seriously fucked their demographics, then burning bridges with the entire west is going to put them in a bind, all for some near ancient territorial grievances they've been doing quite fine without for a while now.

China relies on the US for food imports, being so adversarial isn't going to work for them long term.

Strongest man in the world still sits here.

Ion know about all dat. We still have a pretty tact system of checks and balances to keep the president somewhat grounded here.

 

[Rational Poster]

Ion know about all dat. We still have a pretty tact system of checks and balances to keep the president somewhat grounded here.

“I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”

We also told Poots if he did try to do something retarded like use a nuke the first missiles would be flying directly at him, and we know his location at all times, and we don't miss.