Bedingfield: New Intel Release Is Not an Effort to Embarrass Putin

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BEDINGFIELD: "No. No. Our aim — again, our aim is to show that this has been a strategic blunder for Russia, that there is — ultimately, this is going to leave them weaker; it is not going to leave them stronger. And I think making this information public simply contributes to the picture that, strategically, they are having to reorganize, to refit. And that shows that, again, this was a terrible decision for them. And at the end of the day, as we’ve long said — as we’ve said from the outset, as we said even before they invaded — we said that this would be a strategic mistake for them. And I think that that has borne out."