The corporate media's initial response to the enormous leak of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare there was nothing to see here, and cover it as a depoliticized crime story about a 21-year-old National Guard member who published secret documents to impress his friends. President Biden dismissed the leaks as revealing nothing of "great consequence."
What these documents reveal, however, is that the war is going worse for Ukraine than our political leaders have admitted to us, while going badly for Russia too, so that neither side is likely to break the stalemate this year and this will likely lead to "a protracted war beyond 2023," as one of the documents says.
