seems like the Soviet army’s secret killer elite. is no more.
The thing about young Mr. Teixeira is that his actions ought to ruin the career of his immediate chain of command as well, as they exhibited poor judgement in letting him have access to documents beyond his security clearance. And the security personnel needs to be reprimanded as well, have their careers scuttled for letting that jerk bring his private phone into a no electronic devices area.
That is why I have no real sympathy: he didn’t just do a “look what was lying around” bragging, he set out to circumvent the law. All because he has a twisted view of what is right, warped by partisan panderers.
He photographed the documents at home, on his kitchen counter.
P.S. He had Top Secret clearance because he worked on maintaining a network that hosted Top Secret material.
The most cynical phrase to come out of the war so far: “single-use soldiers”.
I hate that this is happening. This war is expensive, but fundamentally we are fighting over whether we want an economy run as a full-on criminal, hierarchical, enterprise or by an approach that at least holds out the ideal of peaceful participation and reward for effort. If farm support has to be part of that war effort, so be it. We should making the farmers whole and squashing this as an issue before it becomes useful to the opposition as a wedge issue. Buy the grain at a workable price, store it if we have to, sort it out when the Russian effort has been crushed.
Edit: (noting @GagHalfrunt below) 
My 
friends are not fans of that country’s current government. Time, then, for some behind-the-scenes work, I suppose…
In short, this is a leak with a very direct cost that will certainly be paid in Ukrainian lives and destroyed equipment. Thanks only to sheer luck, the severity is far lower than could have been the case. And not to labor this point, but this luck is despite Teixeira, not thanks to any proactive attempt by him to mitigate those harms, or lack of damaging material in the documents as he posted them. At the point where he posted them, those maps were current. He posted it to a channel that had overtly pro-Russian members. The channel he shared it in was called “Bear-vs-Pig”; named for a racist slur commonly used by Russians against Ukrainians. That the documents didn’t route immediately into the hands of Russian commanders is not due to any attempt on his part to mitigate the harms prior to leaking those documents.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called for establishing a group of countries that are uninvolved in the Russia-Ukraine war to broker peace, according to reports by Reuters and AFP.
Speaking to reporters through a translator in Abu Dhabi, Lula said: “I think we need to sit on a table and say, ‘That’s enough, let’s start talking’, because war never brought and will never bring any benefit to humanity.”
Lula echoed his previous sentiment that the decision to enter the conflict was “made by two countries”.
“President Putin doesn’t take any initiatives to stop the war. (President Volodymyr) Zelensky from Ukraine doesn’t take any initiatives to stop the war,” he said.
The Brazilian president, who has criticized the United States and European Union’s role in the conflict, spoke of attempting to gather a group of leaders who “prefer to talk about peace rather than war," citing Xi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, both of whom he met with this week.
“We are trying to form a group of countries that have no kind of involvement with the war to talk to Russia and Ukraine, but also the US and EU, to convince people that peace is the best way to establish a process of conversation,” he said.
On Monday, Lula’s administration is slated to host Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Brasilia. The Brazilian leader spoke with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a call earlier this year.
