@amuse
@amuse
Putin has alleged for more than a decade that CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War against Russia - the New York Times confirms he was right. Fiona Hill and Alexander Vindman and Victoria Nuland lied to the American people and Congress.
7:53 AM · Feb 26, 2024
zerohedge
@zerohedge
CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms
https://t.co/u3v6HS1gyO
11:36 PM · Feb 25, 2024
There is no way I'm going to click on that link that may or may not be a valid news site. However, I did find the NYT article on a news site that does not have a paywall or require an email addy,
https://news.yahoo.com/nyt-cia-network-bases-ukraine-123116608.html . Here's something in the article
@zerohedge and
@amuse did not mention:
After the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014, the U.S. initially distrusted Ukrainian officials and worried about "provoking the Kremlin," the NYT said.
Kondratiuk built relations with the CIA, which in 2016 agreed to help modernize Ukraine's military intelligence agency in exchange for intelligence from Ukraine, the NYT said. A red line was that the CIA would not help Ukrainian intelligence conduct lethal operations.
Context, context, context. In the 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution, Putin puppet Viktor Yanukovych got kicked out of Ukraine's Presidency. Later in 2014 Russia invaded and has since occupied Crimea. However many CIA "bases" there may be in Ukraine, they started being set up in 2016. So the context for those bases is:
* A Putin puppet-President being kicked out of office;
* The Russians invaded and occupied part of Ukraine;
* The CIA bases were forbidden to assist with lethal operations.
As the old saying goes,
a text out of context is a pretext.
@zerohedge and
@amuse omitted totally relevant context.