Originally Posted by
SASless
How does US Intelligence "know" what the aiming points were?
Are these the same Intelligence Analysts that did not see this War coming and said it would only last three days...that did not see the Taliban taking over Afghanistan...that "knew" there were WMD's in Iraq?
That the Russians are mucking it up big time is easy to see.....but to know with certainty requires a lot of confirmed inside information....which I do not believe for a second that we have.
While I share some of your skepticism of the US Intelligence systems, there is no question that all those AWACS, P-8, and similar aircraft flying around near the Ukraine are gathering massive amounts of information regarding the performance (or lack thereof) of the various Russian weapons systems.