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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8588382" data-attributes="member: 177">While not yet solidly established, we now have reasons to doubt that Russia is implementing a coherent strategy, or acting on the basis of reality, because Putin may not be informed of the reality:"A U.S. official provided NBC News with declassified intelligence claiming that there is "persistent tension" between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD), allegedly because Putin's senior advisors are "too afraid to tell him the truth" about Russia's battlefield failures. “We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisors about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisors are too afraid to tell him the truth," the official said. The official did not provide evidence for these claims, citing a need to protect sources and methods. They said that Putin was unaware that the Russian military had used and lost conscript soldiers in Ukraine, saying that this lack of information showed "a clear breakdown in the flow of accurate information to the Russian President.""(From NBC News:  <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-russian-units-reportedly-forced-turn-n1293624" target="_blank">Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Russian units 'forced' to turn back to reorganize</a>)</blockquote>