STILL WONDERING WHY PUTIN INVADED? CIA Helped Ukraine Build 12 Secret Spy Outposts BEFORE WAR
The U.S. has been helping Ukraine fight its war against Russia since before the 2022 invasion.
The U.S.’s Central Intelligence Agency financed and “partly equipped” 12 secret spy locations in Ukraine, along the Russian border, years before the Russian military operation in the country, according to a report in The New York Times.
The report, which was published Sunday, called these secret locations “listening posts” and shed light on a never-before-known intelligence sharing between Ukraine and the U.S.
Washington has trained Ukrainians in spycraft and taught elite units how to reverse-engineer Russian drones so they could be reversed-engineered to read Moscow’s encryption systems.
The report read:
The relationship is so ingrained that C.I.A. officers remained at a remote location in western Ukraine when the Biden administration evacuated U.S. personnel in the weeks before Russia invaded in February 2022. During the invasion, the officers relayed critical intelligence, including where Russia was planning strikes and which weapons systems they would use.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said in an interview last year that the U.S. has been grooming Ukraine for years to fight Moscow in hopes of “inflicting a strategic defeat” on the country.
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Readers of The Trends Journal know that the U.S. has been providing Ukraine with advanced weapons and intelligence. There is also an unspecified number of special operations forces operating in Ukraine under the auspices of protecting the embassy and tracking weapons.
Mark Episkopos, a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote in Responsible Statecraft in response to The Times’s report:
“The “unjustified and unprovoked” line has been used numerous times by a chorus of top U.S. officials and allies, quickly becoming a rhetorical mainstay of Biden’s maximum pressure campaign against the Kremlin.”
There is little question that Russia’s invasion has wrought a horrific human toll on Ukraine and upended European security in ways that few anticipated prior to February 2022. But it is also not without its context, which includes a litany of grievances that — however unjustified from the perspective of the West — constitute what the Kremlin saw as sufficient provocation to initiate the most destructive war in Europe in 1945.
The Pentagon announced in August that U.S. troops who have been stationed in Ukraine could earn “imminent danger pay” since they are in a warzone, which amounts to more than $200 a month in their paychecks.
While the Pentagon has insisted that U.S. troops are not actively fighting Russia, there seems to be a lot of wiggle room about their tasks. Washington provides Kyiv with intelligence and has been training Ukrainian forces. There are reportedly thousands of troops from NATO countries who are fighting alongside Ukrainians who have signed on as mercenaries.
The Biden administration has tried to portray the conflict as a war of choice by Russia, and pretends that the conflict could end today if only Russian forces would pack up and go home so the West can go back to weaponizing Ukraine and fully incorporating Kyiv into the NATO security apparatus.
Victoria Nuland, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, admitted to the Kyiv Security Forum that Washington has been working with Ukraine for up to five months on how to carry out its failed counteroffensive.
The U.S. was also reportedly instrumental in providing the Ukrainians with intelligence that enabled its military to kill top Russian generals on the battlefield and sink the Moskva, its flagship missile cruiser in the Black Sea back in 2022.
The Times reported at the time that the U.S. provided Ukraine with information about Russian generals who became targets for the Ukrainian military. The information included details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters and the whereabouts of senior Russian military leaders.
The report read:
The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence—including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers—to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.
TRENDPOST: Gerald Celente has said two days before the Ukraine War began that WWIII has begun.
And that contrary to reports that the U.S. is in a “proxy” war with Russia, Washington is currently at war with the Kremlin. He said it will only become “official” after the first nuclear flash or a disastrous false flag event.
The Trends Journal is opposed to Russia’s invasion, but as we have detailed going back to 2014, we totally understand why Moscow did invade. In addition, as we have detailed, the European Union had classified Ukraine as the most corrupt country in Europe… and this border dispute is not—as the Western media and politicians are selling—of global concern.
In 2018, Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner addressed students at Yale and noted how—after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was a chance that the U.S. and Russia could come together and be a force of good in the world and accept then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s offer of partnership.
“The other approach was to say, ‘For 40 years you held a nuclear bomb over our heads. You lost the Cold War, and you’re going to pay for it. You’re going to be punished for what you did,’” he said, according to the transcript.