[user104658]

Originally Posted by bots

i actually think the security leak was a setup. In the messages Vance and the defense secretary were busy saying how europe should have been made to pay for the attack. They wanted that message to get out

My literal first thought before I even read anything about it - my wife said, did you hear about someone from the press being accidentally included in a message chain in US... I said "nah, can only have been on purpose".

They want us to believe that they're incompetent but it's engneered incompetence with very specific purposes. It's the entire Trump playbook. Play dumb. You can see it filtering down though his leuitenants and all the way to his followers too (with mixed effect, some people are better at it than others).