{"id":42935,"date":"2022-07-21T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T08:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=42935"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T08:03:08","slug":"the-head-of-the-cia-if-putin-thinks-he-can-win-the-war-of-attrition-in-ukraine-he-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=42935","title":{"rendered":"The head of the CIA: if Putin thinks he can win the war of attrition in Ukraine, he is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, said that Putin miscalculated with plans to capture Kyiv and will be proven wrong again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate. 21. July . 2022 | Society .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burns predicted that the Kremlin would continue the war of attrition, thinking that the West would stop supporting Ukraine.&nbsp;But he said Putin had miscalculated his initial invasion plans by failing to capture Kyiv and would be proven wrong again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burns was also asked if he thinks Putin is unstable and unhealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As far as we can tell, he&#8217;s probably too healthy,&#8221; Mr Burns noted, before joking that it was &#8220;an unofficial intelligence judgement&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, said that Putin miscalculated with plans to capture Kyiv and will be proven wrong again.\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate. 21. July . 2022 | Society .\u00a0 Details Burns predicted that the Kremlin would continue the war of attrition, thinking that the West would stop supporting Ukraine.&nbsp;But he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750],"tags":[1671,5030,813,2399,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-42935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","tag-politics","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42945,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42935\/revisions\/42945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}