I guess it depends on the weight and the nature of the evidence, Victor Suvorov nee Razin the one who gave us the look at the Spetznaz has a similar view to McMeekin if memory served, I give him props for dismantling some of the premises that John Reed put forward in earlier work, that China Mieville still falls for, hes’ more a science fiction writer, but with this odd delusion about Leninism, hes got this later Highlanderesque mystery with Keanu Reeves,

wars in the Steppes have often been brutal the First World War as with the Second, the
Eastern Front did crush both Armies in point of fact, in the previous encounter,

Gehlen the intel mastermind, undeterred by the most recent outing, did not consider it impossible to engage in such folly neither did Patton, who was taken out of the picture to prevent such an occurance,

On a different plane, certainly Lemay was not deterred by what confronting the Rodina would entail although this time with air power,

Brendan Dubois who has found himself in a quandary of later, paints LeMay as a villain if the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone awry,of course peter george of red alert already had that view of Lemay, as General Ripper

i understand it is easy to get caught up in the ‘wllderness of mirrors’ a line that david martin relayed about angleton, something littell sort of wrestled with,

in the aftermath of the ames and hanson revelations, the Company seemed to have engaged in another wild goose chase, that left most of the analytical capacities damaged re Putin the Khozayin, having seen Stalin with rosey eyed spectacles, the ones who looked into Putin, I think generously overcorrected, so it’s been a cavalcare of horror stories which help inflate his ego, but little understanding of the man, like Phillip Short has done, so fraudsters like Danchenko and Steele became the Mariners,
unlike say Tretyakov and Gordievsky, to relate too guides into the previous generation,

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25940894-on-stalin-s-team

now it’s a tragic circumstance that applebaum as a popular historian has much of the story right, yet TDS has made her unreliable as a contemporary chronicler of events,

sometimes a certain distance in necessary, hopefully strobe talbott’s codswallop at the Service of fixers like Victor Louis, are not relied as a dutiful account of say the 1980s,
or say Frances Fitzgerald, but we can’t rely on that assurance,

Talbott who bought every soviet trope, the later tretyakov had a wry chuckle about this matter, who then styled himself the Mariner about the time of Orange Man, his relatives like Cody Shearer were messengers for the worst sort of fraud, parallel to the Steele Dossier, which they sold to the Company and later the Times, without any trace of shame,

we see the role that Anthony Blunt had in say operation market garden, and how many decades has it taken us to realize that,but analogs in this country, like Michael Straight, the Morgan heir, who ended up editor of the New Republic into the Cold War

that part isn’t arguable, as to the particulars of his strategy, well that part we can debate, the grand guignol of what happened to who was related by curzio malaparte, almost contemporaneously, a recent translation,

now this might seem ancient history, but as Keynes spoke about ancient dogmas driving modern policy, these relativist historian
have shaped modern view of Soviet behavior
I speak of the likes of Fitzgerald who comes to mind, given too much credence, btim I mean energy

Ultimately I just think he comes up short in making that case, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile. The book seems extraordinarily well researched. I thought I knew a lot about Lend-Lease, but I had no idea the scope and the details. And the book is full of tidbits like the one I already referenced.

David Harsanyi reviewed it for the Federalist, loved it and said, “ I doubt anyone who reads it will think about the Second World War in the same way.” I agree.

it was then, an undiscovered country, ‘a mystery wrapped inside an enigma’ but after the 90s, there is no excuse for getting him wrong

where do you think McMeekin was most off in the big picture,