Several days after the New York Times ran an article reporting that U.S. military and intelligence leaders do not have a detailed understanding of Ukraine’s military tactics ("U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine’s War Strategy, Officials Say"), President Biden announced at a Saturday June 11 fundraiser in Los Angeles that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “didn’t want to hear it” when U.S. intelligence told him that Russia was about to invade.
“Nothing like this has happened since World War II,” said Biden, according to AP. “I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating. But I knew we had data to sustain [the assessment that] he [Putin] was going to go in, off the border.”
“There was no doubt,” he said. “And Zelenskyyy didn’t want to hear it.”
