[With UN backing, US violently seized Ukraine in 2014. No one asked E. Ukraine if they wanted to be a US colony. Why should anyone agree to be seized and silenced by US profiteers?]
6/27/22, “Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Crawling with CIA & Co,” Consortium News
“The previously unthinkable idea that the U.S. is at war with Russia
has been gradually normalized,
with the heat turned up so slowly that
the frog doesn’t notice it’s being boiled alive.”
"The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the U.S. and its allies,
which would seem to contradict earlier reports
that the U.S. intelligence cartel is
having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine.
This would also, obviously, put the final nail in the coffin of the claim
that this is not a U.S. proxy war.
“Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say,”
anonymous Western officials inform us of the following through their stenographers at The New York Times: [6/25/22, by Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper]
“As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, [after US violently seized it in 2014] the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from [enslaved US taxpayers] the United States and its allies —
including a stealthy network of commandos and spies
rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.
Much of this work happens outside Ukraine,
at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example.
But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.
At the same time, a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania,
also have been working inside Ukraine.”
(continuing): “The revelation that the C.I.A. and U.S. special forces are
conducting military operations in Ukraine does indeed make a lie of the Biden administration’s
insistence at the start of the war
that there would be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine.
And the admission that NATO powers are so involved in operations against a nuclear superpower means, we are closer to seeing a nuclear exchange than anyone should be comfortable with.
This news should surprise no one who knows anything about the usual behavior of the U.S. intelligence cartel, but interestingly
it contradicts something we were told by the same New York Times
not three weeks ago.
“American intelligence agencies have less information than they would like about Ukraine’s operations
and possess a far better picture of Russia’s military, its planned operations and its successes and failures,”
The New York Times told us earlier this month.
“U.S. officials said
the Ukrainian government gave them few classified briefings
or details about their operational plans,
and Ukrainian officials acknowledged that they
did not tell the Americans everything.”
It seems a bit unlikely that U.S. intelligence agencies would have a hard time getting information
So why are they telling us all this now?…
and its allies in Ukraine.
The other day Antiwar’s Daniel Larison tweeted,
“Hawks in April: Don’t call it a proxy war!
Hawks in May: Of course it’s a proxy war!
Hawks in June: It’s not their war,
This is indeed exactly how it happened. Back in April President Joe Biden told the press the idea that this is a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia
was “not true”
and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said
“It’s not, this is clearly Ukraine’s fight”
when asked if this is a proxy war. The mainstream media were
still framing this claim as merely an “accusation” by the Russian
government and empire spinmeisters were regularly
admonishing anyone who used that term on the grounds
that it deprives Ukrainians of their “agency.”
Then May rolled around and
all of a sudden we had The New Yorker unequivocally telling us that the
U.S. is in “a full proxy war with Russia” and hawks like U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton saying things like,
“We’re not just at war to support the Ukrainians.
We’re fundamentally at war, although somewhat through a proxy,
and it’s important that we win.”
And now here in June we’ve got war hawks
that this is
and it is therefore important
for the U.S.
to drastically escalate it in order
to hand the Russians “devastating losses.”
So, the previously unthinkable idea that the U.S. is at war with Russia
has been gradually normalized,
with the heat turned up so slowly that
the frog doesn’t notice
If that idea can be sufficiently normalized,
public consent for greater escalations will likely be forthcoming, even if those escalations are extremely psychotic.
Back in March when I said
the only “agency” Ukraine has in this conflict
is the Central Intelligence one,
empire loyalists jumped down my throat.
They couldn’t believe I was saying something so evil and wrong.
Now they’ve been told that
the Central Intelligence Agency is indeed conducting operations
and directing intelligence
but I somehow doubt that this will stir any self-reflection on their part.”
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