U.S. intelligence agencies had alerted top military and administration officials as early as Wednesday about a potential military assault against prominent Russian defense authorities, plotted by Prigozhin.
"The pattern here is clear," said Kennedy. "Not only is the administration deceiving the American people about the motives for this costly and tragic war, but by continually escalating it they put the whole world at risk of nuclear conflagration."
Qi's study found that "the vast majority of media mentions of think tanks in articles about U.S. arms and the Ukraine war are from think tanks whose funders profit from U.S. military spending, arms sales and, in many cases, directly from U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war."