I just read this thread about the leaked documents, what do you think?
I think the main question is is that if it were disinformation, what is the disinformation trying to achieve? There doesn’t really seem to be anything obvious to me. Also, a lot of the information can be easily verified by other spy agencies, so randomly leaked documents might not convince whoever they’re trying to trick to do anything.
Furthermore, if it were disinformation, why would it be circulating for months before being found? Wouldn’t you want to leak the most “up to date” information? Wouldn’t you also want to push the disinformation as hard as you can?
The most important thing is the amount of damage this has done towards the credibility of the Pentagon. If it were disinformation, it’d be dumb to tell others that it is disinformation because you’d want to keep it as close to your chest as possible. Other countries, then, can likely only operate off the belief that it’s real.
Is the enormous amount of damage this has done to the Pentagon’s credibility (as in, would other countries still want to share their intel with the pentagon), worth what objective they’re trying to push? I would say no, because I really don’t see an obvious objective.
And fearmongering isn’t an objective because there are MUCH better ways to fearmonger than to leak documents. Like instead of leaking they can just talk to the media. You think Anglo-affiliated media would doubt the Pentagon?
