So far there has been little mention of either the intelligence blunder or the lack of strategic thinking that enabled the Russian attack to be so devastating..

This shows several things..that communication between the Ukranian and Western military intelligence services is far from secure, that the necessary infrastructure to conduct the proxy war to the level it is now at (and above), does not really exist in Ukraine and that both shortcomings are a function of NATO's Janusian position in that it must be seen to be doing one thing whilst actually planning another...