Despite our already outlining each of these details the New York Times is now confirming, do not overlook the geopolitical consequences that will surface as a result of their publication.
The New York Times published two articles {HERE and HERE} revealing: 1) that U.S. military boots are on the ground in Ukraine. (2) The U.S. military is actively involved in the ongoing targeting of strikes into Russia. (3) The CIA is operating in Ukraine and conducting targeted strikes into the Russian Federation mainland.
New York Times – […] [F]or nearly three years before Mr. Trump’s return to power, the United States and Ukraine were joined in an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology whose evolution and inner workings have been known only to a small circle of American and allied officials.
[…] The idea behind the partnership was that America’s close cooperation with Ukraine would compensate for Russia’s vast advantages in manpower and weaponry. To guide the Ukrainians as they deployed their ever-more-sophisticated arsenal, the Americans created an operation called Task Force Dragon.
The secret center of the partnership was at the U.S. Army garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany. Each morning, U.S. and Ukrainian military officers set targeting priorities — Russian units, pieces of equipment or infrastructure. American and coalition intelligence officers searched satellite imagery, radio emissions and intercepted communications to find Russian positions. Task Force Dragon then gave the Ukrainians the coordinates so they could shoot at them.
[…] In spring 2022, the Biden administration agreed to send High Mobility Artillery Systems, or HIMARS, which used satellite-guided rockets for strikes up to 50 miles distant.
In the war’s first year, the Ukrainians were extremely dependent on the Americans for intelligence, and Task Force Dragon vetted and oversaw virtually every HIMARS strike. The strikes caused Russian casualty rates to soar.
[…] Easing a prohibition against American boots on Ukrainian ground, Wiesbaden was allowed to put about a dozen military advisers in Kyiv. To avoid drawing public attention to their presence, the Pentagon initially called them “subject matter experts.” Later the team was expanded, to about three dozen, and the military advisers were eventually allowed to travel to Ukrainian command posts closer to the fighting.
[…] In January 2024, U.S. and Ukrainian military officers in Wiesbaden jointly planned a campaign — using coalition-supplied long-range missiles, along with Ukrainian drones — to attack about 100 Russian military targets across Crimea. The campaign, named Operation Lunar Hail, largely succeeded in forcing the Russians to pull equipment, facilities and forces in Crimea back to the Russian mainland.
[…] Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia. […] Longstanding policy barred the C.I.A. from providing intelligence on targets on Russian soil. But the C.I.A. could request “variances,” carve-outs to support strikes for specific objectives. Intelligence had identified a vast munitions depot in Toropets, 290 miles north of the Ukrainian border.
On Sept. 18, 2024, a swarm of drones slammed into the munitions depot. The blast, as powerful as a small earthquake, opened a crater the width of a football field. Later, the C.I.A. was allowed to enable Ukrainian drone strikes in southern Russia to try to slow advances in eastern Ukraine. (more)
As we have outlined for several years, including our own research by driving through Ukraine, the CIA has been operating on the ground in Ukraine from the outset of the conflict. Over time the CIA took over most of the strategic operations, and as it currently stands the United States CIA is organizing the majority of the Ukraine war against Russia.
This is where you need to understand how CIA authorization takes place.
In order for the CIA to operate in Ukraine, Joe Biden had to sign a “presidential finding memo” authorizing the CIA to conduct covert operations. This New York Times article is describing the outcome of those “finding memoranda.”
Which brings me to this Tweet I sent in response to the revelatory article:
Dear President Trump, if this NYT article is accurate (it is), there has to be a “Presidential Finding Memo” authorizing the CIA to coordinate attacks into Russia.
You might want to have CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard pull it out of the authorization library for your review, prior to the next call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Also, to avoid embarrassment, as your team are likely aware – and possibly willing to admit, that “finding memo” was also briefed to the former Gang of Eight in congress. Which means Secretary of State Marco Rubio as vice-chair of the SSCI and Go8 member, already knew of this CIA operation, authorizing their involvement in targeting Russian Federation territory.
You might want to ask Secretary Rubio about that, and organize a way to discuss it, prior to Rubio coming face to face with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the next meeting.
Warmest possible regards, and deepest appreciation for your ongoing “ceasefire” efforts.
Good luck
The motive is clear for the New York Times to outline how the CIA is operating inside Ukraine to target the Russian Federation.
The operatives who leak to the NYT want distance between Trump and Putin. This admission of CIA involvement puts Trump in an awkward place.
The awkwardness expands, when you understand how the CIA is authorized to conduct these operations. The President, Biden, signed a “finding memo,” authorizing the CIA to conduct missile strikes into the Russian Federation.
Senator Marco Rubio as SSCI vice-chair and a Gang of Eight member, was ‘read in’ to that CIA authorization.
Senator Rubio is now Secretary of State facing Sergey Lavrov, and the Russians know exactly how these things are done.
On one hand, the NYT article spills the beans and informs the public. On the other hand, their reason for purposefully spilling the beans is to create a problem for Trump and Rubio, and possibly between Trump and Rubio.
It makes sense now why Secretary of State Rubio was the first Trump official to publicly say the United States was in a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine as the justification.
On the upside, this creates an opportunity for President Trump to distance himself from the prior administration and withdraw all CIA operatives and admitted/revealed U.S. military boots on the ground in Ukraine.
President Trump could use this revelation, now public and widespread, to reset the U.S-Ukraine dynamic and withdraw all elements of prior Biden authorization from the conflict.
Will he?
The New York Times is releasing this article to escalate the war and drag us into it on a higher level.
More likely to put pressure on PDT by showing he has not had control of his own cia.
Nope. They’re trying to whitewash America’s role in the whole thing. They’re getting ahead of it all before it all comes out. The CIA’s intervention was during the Biden admin.
Dear President Trump: Please get us the F out of Ukraine.
Amen!
What President has, really?
This^ is a really great response…and true…surely of all people Putin would know that…none of what is in the NYT article is a surprise to him. At all.
Nor his Army.
But then, no President has had control for decades.
Correction…from it’s unholy birth…
It’s been a war machine ever since….
It does prove one thing though. Putin has NATO officers by the gonads in Kursk
pronews24/7 …show killed amer. soldier……..
These people are evil
The CIA is not run by, or owned by the US govt. That makes them an enemy of the United States, and the entire world. They appear to operate as private military, and intelligence gatherers for the corporations, and bankers. Time to crush them!
Thank God Russia doesn’t have surveillance satellites of its own and spies on the ground.
They have known all along. Just like we knew about who was assisting the North Vietnamese.
One thing’s for sure. They didn’t release it for Trump’s benefit.
raise your hand if you believed that the U.S. DID NOT have “advisors” in Ukraine since day 1? anyone?
Oh Lord, hear our prayer.
Praying this memo is delivered by God’s swiftest Angels into the hands of President Trump.
God be with all, no matter where, who are seeking to end this terrible war as they are met with demonic forces determined to foul their every effort.
Bless-ed are the peacemakers…🙏🏻
…and let our cry come to You.
Amen, brother
President Trump – get us the heck out of it.
Damn Straight. Please Mr. President, Sir, stop enabling the Death Cult!
The Warmongers are trying to create a “we’re in too deep to get out” situation.
There is the way things are supposed to work in DC, and then there is the way things actually work. Maybe the Gang was briefed. Or maybe they weren’t. We don’t know.
Was that memo auto penned? Just asking for a friend …
Does Langley have a ‘Joey’ Autopen machine?
Bet they had access to one.
Do I misremember, but wasn’t there (at least) one time during the Russia, Russia hoax where the members of the Go8 were briefed individually, thus making it impossible to know if they had received the same briefing?
It seems entirely possible that the CIA mis-informed the GO8, or misdirected them. Either way, I’ll betcha Putin is aware of what the CIA has been doing.
It looks to me like Trump has cast daylight on the sordid machinations supporting this war. But now he is not a disinterested third party, but political head of its Ukrainian front. To extricate the US from Ukraine while avoiding war with Russia and maintaining GOP hold on Congress will be a superhuman task. May God guide his actions and thoughts.
Keeping control of Congress is next to impossible. We must end the Ukraine War now.
short and sweet:
“Dear American People:
“It has just been revealed in the press that United States intelligence forces have had boots on the ground in Ukraine and have assisted in targeting Ukranian missile attacks on Russian territory and civilians
“Accordingly, I have ordered that all such US forces be withdrawn from Ukraine and all such US targeting assistance to Ukraine be ceased”
… hope I hear it on a TV telecast tonight
You remember correctly.
you remember correctly
Cee eye yay involvement has been known for a decade. This is only a surprise to TDS participants.
Methinks those CIA briefings to the Go8 are not to inform the top 8 Congress-people or to get their buy-in.
More probably it is the CIA directing the top politicians, telling them what messages they must all recite, extracting from them any information they might have acquired independent from the CIA. Its not a briefing its a debrief.
I’m listening to Jack Posobiec and Mike Schafer discuss this.
I think most of us surmised from 2014 on that the US has had a heavy handed involvement in Ukraine.
Names like Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power are well-known for a reason.
Until we rein in the shadow government, aka CIA and IC, we and the world will be in grave peril.
We need a reckoning on exactly how many governments our unelected bureaucrats have overthrown.
I’m beyond tired of them throwing America’s sons and daughters as well as our nation’s monies at these ends with zero accountability.
Is the FBI allowed to arrest the CIA now that they’ve gone feral and are trying to get us all killed?
How about a prisoner exchange? US CIA operatives for the US citizens currently held in Russian prisons.
We will throw in all Ukraine flag waiving members of Congress.
If I know about Victoria newland and Samantha Powell being CIA involvement in overthrowing governments and color revolutions then why has the president not gotten rid of these people? It makes no sense to me. They’re evil warmongers
Remember that he and DOGE are targeting NGO’s. NGO’s are the non-government arm of the CIA. Nuland and Power will be exposed.
It’s all part of the bigger picture. Heck, our tax dollars were/are funding George Soros and crew.
He’s targeting their money, he’s targeting the lawfare law firms, he’s shutting down security clearances and he’s firing people. And he’s exposing it to the people.
I’ve not seen the dems and leftists as worked up about just about anything compared to their reaction to him axing NGO’s and government staff.
This is a process.
The people that read here are far ahead of the national consciousness regarding the totality of this.
I don’t expect PDJT to be perfect considering all that he faces but I know he is doing his best to wrest control from miscreants and return it to the people. I pray he exposes all the rot, the connections these people have in the media, the relationship between family members and information flow, etc.
This all flows back to the judicial situation. He’s well aware of the conflicts of interest most of these judges have because their family members are involved in the media, lawfare and/or USAID and NGO’s.
Victoria Nudelman/Nuland……
GLADIO since WW1
If the CIA, an ostensibly executive branch agency, is clearly not taking orders from the President and appear to be waging a private war, then from whom are they taking orders? There is the enemy that Secretary Hegseth needs to be tasked to destroy.
“Who runs Bartertown??”
Not sh!t—Energy!!
That is why that I say general Flynn must be the next president.
CIA = British Crown
The British Crown represents evil. They are unaccountable and cannot be removed, therefore power and control of the world population is all that they aspire to.
Absolute power (even as a figurehead), corrupts absolutely.
All roads lead to Langley, and from there you’ll need a boat………….
To get across the River Styx…
I wonder if President Trump gets to read his tweets?
👉She appears to be the main information filter to President Trump 👈
Maybe she’s too dumb for that job……?
Resend the message to Don Jr.
I’m sure the Kremlin has read Sundance’s so the US team who faces them had better be prepared.
The people who put them up to this, really, really, want WW3.
There can be no other conclusion.
Yeah, we at CTH and others, already knew this was the way things have been run.
But to say it publicly, knowing that the Russian’s will see it, is positively an escalation of an already horrible situation. This is the Deep State, tossing gas on the fire.
I hope Putin sees the game and keeps steady.
God help us all. ( Especially where I live. If things get out of hand, everyone here is a dead. Period. )
If things get out of hand most of us are dead everywhere..
If it gets to that point….Party like a Kennedy!
I had to wait until dang near the end of the World to quit drinking! No way can I go back now! Besides there wouldn’t be much “duck and cover” time with these dadgum hypersonic missiles, Heaven Forbid.
Nah, the water is too cold…….
The Russians already know it. Think pipeline destruction.
IMO, President Trump can make huge strides in stabilizing the USA/America situation by ousting from any power those that led the attacks on Russia. Look at the security clearances PDJT has revoked. I think he’s moving that direction.
All things considered, I can’t think of anyone I would rather have at the helm navigating this than President Trump.
Yep, Germany was getting to close in business to Russia so, CIA blew it up!
That was always the goal, and to be sure the US is longer a global super power. When that is achieved the WEF takes control and we are screwed.
If American operators shooting American missiles into Russia, killing Russians, didn’t start WW3 yet then admitting to what the Russians already knew probably won’t start WW3 by itself either. There is still hope. Putin is KGB, he understands deniability and deception and betrayals.
The real danger is the Europeans and our own Deep State use this “disclosure” as cover to launch a false-flag attack that will be attributed to Russian retaliation. The Deep State is desperate to keep the killing going, keep the money laundering going, keep the power-grabs going.
And ask who had auto pen duty when the Presidential Findings Memo was signed. Old saying in the bureaucracy, “Incoming crap flows downhill fast.” Here’s an opportunity for some real distance between PDJT and the covert war against Russia.
oof..that’s a heavy meal to digest. This seems to put PDJT between the proverbial Rock and a Hard Place. IMOSHO denying knowledge of this operation makes him look marginalized. OTOH it’s a great chance to stick a needle in the C eye A. ..Peace is the prize..
PDJT can and should use this as an argument for disassembly of the informational silos, pushing for sunlight on how CIA operations have been allowed to run amok, and counter to (current, rational) national interests. This is the exact type of event needed to pierce into the heart of the CIA operations, and not have the current top-down problem that Ratcliffe (and by association Bongino and Patel) are facing.
Presidential speech to the nation, from the oval office, that goes open Kimono.
Go for the brass ring.
Yup. – Then have Ratcliff issue burn notices/disavowals for ALL Agency officers in-country…
…-Then hand alla their IDs/location data over to Putin or Lavrov as an olive branch/sign of good faith at the next available phone call or sitdown.
Explain to the nation during the Oval Office speech how they all went rogue and are trying to start WWIII to cover-up the *MOTHER* of all RICO operations, including as predicates seditious conspiracy, sedition and treason… – Lest the Mockingbird Media try running with “Muh poor bereived wives and children of noble CIA patriots, Bad Orange Man betrayed and threw under the bus.”…
…- Then lead off from there into an *Encyclopedic* exposition of the *Entire* swamp mess… – As you say: open Kimono.
That would be like a twist on the 1964 movie “Failsafe” where the US mistakenly launches a nuke strike on Moscow and POTUS offers to sacrifice NYC to avert an all-out apocalyptic war.
I preferred ‘Dr Strangelove’, but ‘Failsafe’ wasn’t half bad either…
…- Also the 1990(- I think?) TV Movie, ‘By Dawn’s Early Light’. – Starred Powers Boothe and Rebecca DeMornay as B-52 pilots, Martin Landau as POTUS, and James Earl Jones as ‘Alice’ – the General in charge aboard the ‘Looking Glass’ TACAMO aircraft, amongst *Many* others. It involved a similar plot point to ‘Failsafe’ of Russia and America agreeing to trade a couple of cities in order to avert all-out armageddon after a terrorist false-flag cruise missile attack on Russia launched from Turkey…
…- Good stuff. – Go check it out if you can find it.
The live television version of Fail Safe (CBS, 2000), done by George Clooney (I know, I know) was quite good. Richard Dreyfuss played the POTUS, Harvey Keitel played Gen. Black, Brian Dennehy played SAC commander Gen. Bogan, Clooney played Col. Grady.
It’s almost as if the IC and the CIA, through their NYT mouthpiece are daring Trump to make a move. They’re itching for another anti Trump talking point after the fake Signal-gate op failed. And if our troops ARE on the ground (?) where are the casualty numbers? If you’re pulling back the curtain what else should we know? If in fact it is news to Trump he’s got to make that phone call to his counterpart now..The IC deviants will have no qualms in throwing more wood on the fire and more flesh..Thats their role.
The problem with all of this is that there is no independent confirmation.
No video. No interviews. No participants owning up. No body bags. No reports to the people.
Given events since at least 2008 it’s no longer possible to discriminate “truth” from fabrication.
And no ***n accountability.
Would be fabulous
Your comment is spot-on.
Imho, there is more to Lithuania and four soldiers driving imto a big (3 of whom confirmed perished) ?
I want to jear more on this.
Of all places Lithuania?
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-03-28/lithuania-missing-soldier-rescue-17285812.html
Sorry for the above typos.
What is the M88 military recovery vehicle?
https://www.slashgear.com/1820156/about-m88-military-recovery-vehicle-tank/
What else might be in the bog?
Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR).
Began April 2014.
Interesting start date.
Crimea was that year.
US moving military equipment around NATO countries.
https://media.defense.gov/2024/Aug/14/2003523702/-1/-1/1/OAR_Q3_JUN2024_BRIEF_508.PDF
Per NBC, Lithuania was regarding Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR):
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/3-us-soldiers-found-dead-lithuania-1-still-missing-vehicle-swallowed-p-rcna198571
Lots of ???.
Vicky N ????
Abrams tank with turret replaced by engineering ‘stuff’.
Military training exercise conducted with fellow NATO countries. US Military does training exercises all the time, and all over the world. It’s how they stay prepared. Unfortunately, sometimes accidents happen, and we don’t always hear about them. Prayers for the soldiers and their families.
Yes, when the U.S. government says they have sent “advisors” for “training”, it always means boots on the ground in command and control of local forces.
Ratliff is in charge of the CIA why not pull them out. Red flag
Pam Bondi- still waiting on the Epstein Files
I’m beginning to think Trump doesn’t have the control he’s thought to have … deep staters on his team
And I can’t believe the support for that little sweatsuit wearing turd in Ukraine
Why do you think they put out that article now? Timing is everything. It’s because of one very key upcoming meeting that’s happening today…..
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thunder-dome-saturday-march-29-2025
Are you ready for the final battle? In a perfect metaphor for an unseen spook war reaching its silently concussive climax, yesterday’s most explosive DOGE story was virtually ignored by corporate media. Of the big US platforms, only Bloomberg carried the narrative-bending story, headlined “Elon Musk Set to Visit Central Intelligence Agency Next Week.” Right on schedule.
Trump-aligned independent reporter Catherine Herridge broke the story on X early yesterday. All we know for sure —all they are publicly saying— is that newly confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe “invited” Elon Musk, personally, to come to CIA HQ on Monday to start discussing DOGE and efficiency. That’s it. Sounds boring.
But it was somewhat curious news because, until now, the security agencies were considered safely DOGE-exempt.
I believe that Herridge’s tweet was a muted declaration that Trump’s war against the Deep State just entered its final, conclusive chapter. And the outcome will change history forever— for better or for worse. Let me explain.
👻 Was it purely coincidental that Rubio unexpectedly shuttered USAID on Friday and Ratcliffe unexpectedly invited DOGE into CIA the following Monday? Behold the timeline of just what we can see:
— On his first day in office, Trump created DOGE.
— DOGE’s first project was to wood-chip the CIA’s global laundromat, USAID.
— Weird legal fights erupted over the obscure “independent” agency.
— DOGE —solely under Trump’s control— continued penetrating most of the government.
— The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA Director.
— Ratcliffe immediately fired an unknown number of CIA staff. (Battlefield preparation?)
— The JFK disclosures were body blows against the CIA. (More battlefield preparation?)
— Trump declassified (not yet produced) Crossfire Hurricane. (Even more?)
— Yesterday, Rubio officially ended USAID by Congressional notice.
— Yesterday, Ratcliffe publicly invited Musk into the CIA.
So many questions! Why Musk, and not a regular DOGE team? Why announce it? Why is the media pretending this story is a nothing burger?
Let’s speculate a smidge. Has Herridge’s mysterious January 19th tweet come full circle?
👻 One can imagine all the problems new CIA directors face upon entering the Agency. Like his predecessors, however loyal to the Administration, Ratcliffe entirely depends on CIA’s permanent staff to truthfully and transparently tell him what the Agency is really up to. That top-secret information is surely compartmentalized —especially the blackest (and most interesting) ops.
Director Ratcliffe has no login to see where all the money is going. Just what they tell him.
But, things are different this time. Having softened up the CIA, Ratcliffe is now bringing in DOGE, which can “efficiently” scoop all the CIA’s operations up into a single, controllable, digital, blockchained portal.
DOGE can make it so Ratcliffe can see for himself. He’ll no longer be spoonfed.
👻 Think about it: This isn’t about DOGE or efficiency or cost cutting. It’s about information control. It’s about access to a deliberately opaque, compartmentalized, self-financing black-budget machine that’s historically operated with zero accountability, even to its own directors.
Every CIA director since Dulles has faced the same problem: They don’t really run the Agency.
Career staff run it. Career staff who’ve been barnacled in place since the Cold War. Career staff who know where the money’s buried, who control the classified compartments, and who can easily “forget” to tell the Director things, or follow super-top-secret compartmentalizing commands.
Ratcliffe, like anyone assigned the Director’s chair, walked into a fortress within a fortress.
But DOGE can help him tear down the fortress walls.
👻 Imagine a new, AI-powered, top-secret, digital DOGE dashboard at Langley that can show Ratcliffe everything in real-time: every dollar, every operation, every contract, every overseas asset being paid — and only Trump’s team will hold the keys. Once such a dashboard were installed, the Agency’s permanent staff couldn’t play their covert games anymore. No more secret drug ops. No more unauthorized coups. No more backchannel slush funds.
No more resist Trump operations.
If DOGE can pull this off, the Agency will properly become an extension of the White House, rather than the other way around.
👻 In other words, DOGE at CIA is the nuclear option. It is a breathtaking vision of a brand-new reality that could dismantle the entire postwar geopolitical model. Now, permanent, unelected bureaucrats and spies hold the real power, because they control the money, secrets, and the levers of influence, while manipulated elected officials come and go like figure skaters blissfully unaware of all the busy little crustaceans teeming right below the ice.
If CIA-DOGE integration is real, and it sticks, then the Deep State will evaporate into a shallow pond. The DOGE dashboard would collapse the financial hydra into a one-necked money chokepoint. It would move the levers of control back into the White House. No more shadow government. No more covert meetings between “resisters” discussing how to undermine the elected President and thwart his agenda.
To be perfectly clear: DOGE in intelligence suggests, not just draining the swamp, but the engineered desertification of the swamp.
👻 If I’m right, this is war. When Musk strolls into Langley HQ, it will signal the final, climactic battle. The Deep State cannot let Trump seize the intelligence machinery. If he does, their decades-long system of autonomy, black budgets, and unaccountable operations dies forever. Not “set back.” Not “dismantled” so it can later be rebuilt.
Eradicated forever.
Pray for protection for president Trump, Elon Musk and our entire elected government. I think Trump and Elon are in position “for such a time as this.” The scripture verse that has played in my mind since Trump was inaugurated and his cabinet began work dismantling wickedness is “this is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes” Oh Lord, forgive our grumbling and delight us with your righteousness I ask in Jesus name.
I like that prayer.
AMEN, AMEN, & AMEN
Michael,
Thanks for reposting/re minding everyone of this possibility….and what a tumultuous “NEWS” day it has coincidentally become…..with a literal BOMBARDMENT of competing, distracting yet complimentary headlines of interest…..(is everyone trying to get their agitprop out before April Fools Day) 🤔
🍿🍿🍿
It’s also curious that Musk announced at the Wisconsin town hall meeting that DOGE is going after Congress members that make absurd amounts of money, specifically targeting USAID (see: CIA slush fund, pointed out perfectly) payments through backchannels back to senior Democratic members…
“Yesterday, Ratcliffe publicly invited Musk into the CIA.
So many questions! Why Musk, and not a regular DOGE team?” I believe that when we hear about DOGE activity, it has already been happening.
My inside source tell me that Herridge in not a friendly to Trump. Dont trust.
I find the timing of the New York Times article interesting. It comes after CIA director Radcliffe invited the DOGE team to have a look at the CIA.
I question whether President Trump can actually stop the CIA from doing what they want to do in Ukraine.
I don’t believe President Trump was unaware of this situation.
I’m confident President Trump was not aware the CIA is conducting ongoing operations in Ukraine.
If Ratcliffe was aware and did not inform POTUS, we have a real problem.
I am sure the Agency gave Ratcliffe a bunch of busy work to do, and treated him like a mushroom when it comes to their operations.
And he eagerly said, “Sure, I like the dark.” One Waltz in the Cabinet is enough.
The Army (USAF) is involved in this, too. So, Hedgepeth was unaware, too?
Start with Rubio.
Pretty sure the Senate and nearly everyone already was aware. I’m also guessing most of us here at the TH assumed it after 2020 steal.
There was a quote I came across over the weekend from decades ago.
It was Senator Rockefeller telling someone that the CIA/ IC community only tell him what they want him to know, even though he was chairman of the committee supposedly overseeing them.
I will see if I can find it….
So many new names have popped up. Would like to know more about this Donahue.
Also, Operation Dragon the FBI lovebirds referred to is now confirmed as being the Airborne. Sure would like a refresher surrounding that issue too if you get the chance.
They are referring to the XVIII Airborne Corps HQ. The unit is based out of Ft Bragg but has elements forward deployed to Germany. That was who is coordinating the Ukraine war. Their unit insignia features a dragon.
Soon after the invasion in early 2022 the 18th Airborne Corps headquarters element deployed 300 people to Germany. That element is led by (then) Army Lt. Gen. Michael Kurilla. Kurilla is now the 4-star in charge of CENTCOM and overseeing the whole middle east theater.
That makes it much easier for me. The Ukraine operation has been built on one lie after another. Thanks for the truth Sundance.
Trump needs to stop all military assistance to Ukraine. We need to stop the monetary funding also. It is time to do the right thing.
He’s well aware. He stopped the military aid about a month ago and a hugely telling part, he stopped US given satellite imaging to Ukraine. He knows how and from whom they were getting their intel.
As much as I hate linking Politico, here’s the gist of it.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-satellite-company-maxar-cuts-off-ukraine-access-imagery-report-says/
His high frustration level in trying to deal with President Zelensky would tend to indicate that he (PDJT) was missing vital information.
Lil Havana still a POS.
The world gets a taste of what we in Florida and the USA at large have had to deal with.
As was said when he got picked, we in FL couldn’t get rid of him thru the voting process but he can get fired now.
VVP probably inform VSGPDJT… about western boots on ground in beginning talks…..include US mercenaries and c*a operatives…
So that, not knowing, would explain the “Trump pissed at Putin” / tariffs on Russian oil from yesterday. So did Marco not inform the President because he felt slight by being back-benched by the President. Wouldn’t Hegseth have know of this by now? Its MIL targeting capability they are using right?
What happened to the Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board?
Honestly, I find that very difficult to believe, SD.
Sundance, a couple of points. First the efforts against first, the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation started in the late 40’s.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/
It continued during the Trump administration, however, the details of which could have been kept secret from the President. Note the players involved.
“Trump’s 2016 election put Ukraine and the CIA on edge, but his Russia hawks Pompeo and Bolton visited Kyiv to underscore support, expanding training and bases.”
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/26/nyt-12-secret-spy-bases-in-ukraine-show-depth-of-cia-support/
Also, the NYT report is full of Bravo Sierra. A sizeable number of American analysis that have covered the Ukraine/Russia conflict are of the mind the NYT article is an effort to push the blame for the coming defeat onto Ukraine rather than those who actually planned the conflict. Here is an example.
https://sonar21.com/new-york-times-fantasy-tale-of-ukraines-almost-great-victory-over-russia/
Don’t forget about Rubio’s part in confirming the bio labs in Ukraine during his interview with Victoria Nuland.
The most serious accusations in the article is that United States personnel were in the “kill chain” in deaths of Russian citizens, within Russia proper. The fig leaf we had which provided some deniability is now gone. Then add the recovery of dead American mercenaries who were responsible for the killing of Russian civilians in Kursk, and the bodies of dead Russian civilians returned during the last exchange, who died in Ukrainian captivity.
President Trump has a lot of apologizing to do for the acts of our government .
Take care and stay safe
Thank You deeply for sharing your tweet!
Continued BLESSINGS!
If the PDB has info on Russian movements in Ukraine it would be obvious they’re reacting to strikes forcing assets outside the envelope of weapons Ukraine doesn’t possess. Trump might not know this, but his advisors sure as hell should.
DJT knows how weapons like those are targeted, 100%. His SNAFU was not being able to pull the boots out.
GET.US.PERSONNEL.OUT.OF.UKRAINE!
…AND LET THEM HAVE THEIR MINERALS. IT IS A COMPLICATION!
Thanks to Musk and Trump, it’s now cool for even the MSM to rat out the CIA. Sorry, Chuck.
I don’t have the words to describe how bad this is to be happening when POTUS is in active negotiations with Putin and NOBODY told POTUS. There is no reason the CIA can give to POTUS for not telling him. They have an obligation to. All operations shall stop immediately! All CIA personnel shall make their way back to the US proper immediately.
Unbelievable!!!!!!!
I agree, when the NYT writes an article
like that, yeah – it’s a message and a set up. 😖
Everyone who has been following the conflict
closely, knows that we have had boots on the
ground and we have been assisting.
Wondering what will be said….if anything, about
the article by other media.
It was reported Russia just hit a couple large
“Western training centers” the last couple of days.
🤔 Wondering if there were large number of those
boots on the ground—official/unofficial boots on
the ground that were eliminated?
If I remember correctly, one was Iskander strike on a
hotel structure being used.
Russians know where C*A/mercenaries are and I am sure VVP informed VSGPDJT about them and their …..execusions/ jailing…
They just placed them in a Lithuanian bog.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger! We better GTFO of NATO Now!
Wonder if this is why Zelensky is now ordering elections.
“President Trump could use this revelation, now public and widespread, to reset the U.S-Ukraine dynamic and withdraw all elements of prior Biden authorization from the conflict.
Will he?”
From your lips, Sundance, to God’s ear.
That John Ratcliffe pick perfectly sums up how clueless he appears to be.
President Trump is anything but clueless.
He is awake and aware and he has always said, he will take advice and consult with a variety of sources but he alone will make the final decision.
I don’t believe for one minute he is listening to any advisors to the exclusion of his own gut instincts, that includes Suzy Wiles, a question mark, or JDV who I believe gets the big picture.
That is my sincere hope. I can’t believe the most insightful, emotionally intelligent man who has fulfilled the office of the Presidency would leave decisions of such magnitude to unelected officials.
is he talk to Col. Macgregor or Ritter ???…I doubt…
Not really news to us here or those paying attention that there has been deep state involvement from the very beginning but going to be interesting to see how this changes things.
I am shocked!! CIA in Ukraine? Who would of thought.
ms. linda know better than ratcliffe….
The military contractors love miss Lindsey so much, he gets to play golf anywhere.
I am as mystified as can be because Senators earning $200,00. per year have amassed multimillion fortunes. I hope the dots can be connected.
“Will he?”
Hopefully YES
Ephesians 5:13 KJV
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Abort the CIA.
Yesterday Vox Popoli had this to say about the situation…
Russia would be perfectly within its rights to launch retaliatory strikes on London, Paris, Brussels, or Washington DC now.
The globalist organizations headquartered in those four cities are 100-percent guilty of having attacked Russia.
The only reason it won’t do so is because time is on its side; the last desperate hope of Clown World is to provoke Russia into striking back hard enough to galvanize widespread Western support for a war on Russia.
The fact that Clown World’s very clever and not-at-all transparent strategy rests on such an obvious non-starter only serves to underline how fragile their globalist neo-tower of Babel is now.
At this point, Americans wouldn’t care if Russian troops not only took Kiev and Odessa, they wouldn’t care if they occupied Berlin and Brussels as well.
The constant portrayal of the patient, cautious Putin, who is probably the individual most responsible for preventing WWIII, as an aggressive dictator is such a complete inversion of the truth that it is probably going to be genuinely shocking to most people when he is eventually succeeded by a much more hard line figure who is much more willing to hold Russia’s enemies accountable for their constant provocations.
KGB nastiness notwithstanding, Putin is a Cold War vet who remembers what it was like, to live with a potential nuclear apocalypse on a hair trigger. Co-stakeholders, if you will.
SD,
Praying he will see your message and do the Right thing, ASAP…..
I’m beginning to think SomeWone is deliberately withholding SD’s articles from PT.
Another eye opening report by the Treehouse. The evil is staggering.
The “Presidential Finding Memo” was signed by the designated Presidential signer named :
Otto Penn
Son of Biro and Eppie…
Will he, indeed?
I would imagine President Putin is asking that, among other questions. Realistically, he must wonder whether the US President is now nothing more than a figurehead; why bother negotiating a peace treaty with a head of state with no real power over his sprawling bureaucracy?
As if the Bears don’t already know this. This has to have been on the table for a while. Hense, buy minerals from us!
I would simply and immediately shutdown the cia operations. I would immediately cease all funds to Ukraine. And, lastly, I would inform all cia personnel in Ukraine that complete informational revelation of attacks, disposition, location of bases, etc., I mean everything, will be revealed to the Russians.
In other words, get the hell out now before they target you in the field. We have a g—-amn cia operation created to start a thermonuclear war and this operation will be terminated in a hard and brutal way.
These a$$holes are completely out of control. Biden authorized them? Biden was installed to create a piece of paper to cover their collective asses.
Out, out, OUT NOW!
I’m not sure this puts Trump in an awkward place, if he truly didn’t know this was happening. Trump not knowing is very possible. Putin is well aware of the political war underway in America.
Come clean and pull every American asset (dollars, gear, people) and GTF out of there. Trump should be pissed if he didn’t know this was happening.
VSGPDJT …knew it(VVP info)..he is still not ready to deal with those beauties….
Mike Benz describes Ukraine as the CIA’s playground complete with listening posts and 30+ biolabs …
May God save the Republic
“…….All those who hate me(GOD), love death.” Proverbs 8:36b
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
Perhaps I missed it but all I could see on the explosive fake news sourced articles were people posing with camouflage clothing. Nothing proving US military boots on the ground in Ukraine.
There is also no point in reading any of the words because, well, NYT is possibly the fakest news source in the world and one would probably do better to believe the opposite of whatever narrative they are peddling.
I thought there was going to be some actual proof of U.S. military boots on the ground or something.
EXACTLY! Let’s all trust the. NY Times with telling the truth. The Atlantic and NY Times are always what I think of when I hear “Honest Journalism”.
I wonder if the order was signed with the auto pen.
you know it was. Biden can’t write. He was fully demented during the 2020 campaign and everyone knew it. The “stop-Trump” effort in 2020 was far more known and wide-spread than has been advertised in my view. The people (and media) involved, including Fox News, never thought Trump would survive the lawfare leveled against him.
Now they are kissing his rump.
Joebama’s real sig would likely have drool on it.
Yes Trump will pull the CIA out. And Rubio is the best person to pull the findings back. This is great news for Trump and the US. The times is doing what it is told to do. The last refuge is the best!
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”—Ephesians 6:12
It is clear as day that the evil forces of the EU, the CIA, the UniParty/Deep State, the corporate corrupt media and Zelenskyy himself are servants of the principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of this age. They are all evil, money hungry, bloodthirsty monsters.
It should also be clear to those with non-pretending hearts and minds that President Trump and President Putin are natural allies who are wearing “the armor of God” in this spiritual battle.
I pray that God would continue to bless and protect these two men and that God’s will would be done through them.
I don’t know what the point was in publishing this. The Russians and Ukrainians already knew all about it, it is not news to them. It’s not really news to any Americans who have been paying attention.
The story is an acknowledgment that the US government has been engaging in acts of war against Russia for years, in blatant violation of international law and the “rules based order”. Again, what’s the upside here for the deep state?
My guess is that this will be used against Trump in domestic politics …. “Look at how strong the Biden admin was against Russia! What is Trump doing?”
It may also tie into the rumored impending collapse of the Ukrainian military. The defeat of Ukraine, and the resulting defeat of NATO and the US, will be laid on Trump.
Will He? No…slim chance, but I am hoping.
Trump will not do anything.
He has had plenty of opportunity to stop military aid, economic aid, intel, and starlink and done nothing. Trump likes blaming others for this war that he now owns unless he very quickly pulls all US boots out of Ukraine area and doing any Ukraine work.
It should be obvious to PDJT that the US is the main cause of no ceasefire progress. Instead of him calling Putin names and threatening more sanctions, He should be asking what he can do to move toward peace. He has done a NOTHING to move to peace. All he does is talk, blame and threaten but never does anything himself.
The entire non US world now sees PDJT as a blustering bombastic, impatient, unpredictable person who cannot be trusted to stick to what he said last week. Heck he cannot even control his puppet Zelenskyy who has already given the mineral rights away to the UK in payment to them for 100 years of support..
He has the golden opportunity now to completely pull out of Ukraine. His easy out is given to him. Will he take it? probably not. If not then PDJT really does not want peace at all.
The Ukraine ‘deal’ has not yet been ratified by Parliament, as it should be.
Mind you, who knows if that means anything anymore?
Starmer appears to be a sleazy puppet. Zelensky in a donor-provided designer suit.
Father God, strike down your enemies and strengthen, protect and empower your friends, please.
All power to PDJTs elbow, and to his spirit, for wisdom in decision and action, please, by Your Spirit, and through the holy name of Jesus, Amen
Amen. Stay strong in the United Kaliphate..
Starmer appears to have no clue on
how to deal with the economic condition
in England.
Therefore, he focuses on Foreign matters
instead.
He is incompetent and a puppet….just my opinion .😖
Sundance. I think we are getting the Big Ugly!
High noon, high plains drifter and The good the bad and the ugly all rolled into one!
Actually, it might (mistakenly or whatever) be a blessing that the NYTimes released it. I hope that this is the final push Trump needs to abort all activity in Ukraine and give a swift kick in the arse to the swine Rubio. I am sorry. I don’t like him.
This is disgusting, no excuses for this and zero tolerance needs to be the new standard!
The NYT piece sure puts Goldberg on the back burner.
Likely one of the side objectives to releasing this now…
Goldberg had fizzled out already anyway.
‘Will he?’ That remains to be seen.
Why hasn’t President Trump removed the CIA and all operations out of Ukraine?
How exactly do you remove people who are unknown, wont self identify, and no one will identify?
How exactly does a finding by an incapacitated President work?
Not found.
Heads must start rolling 👀
Asses in slings, scalps on the war lance!
“In order for the CIA to operate in Ukraine, Joe Biden had to sign a “presidential finding memo” authorizing the CIA to conduct covert operations. This New York Times article is describing the outcome of those “finding memoranda.”” – Sundance
If you believe this “presidential finding memo” was signed by an autopen please raise your hand!!! ✋
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If Rubio was read into it, then so was Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell, and either Devin Nunes or Mike Turner, depending on when it occurred.
Stakes are very high here because the NYT article entails HUGE risk for the deep state.
The hope is that it is a fatal wound in the infancy of a potentially burgeoning relationship between the US and Russia, however, it could backfire…and Leo hopes it does.
The above mentioned individuals may have been informed, but they didn’t do it, and they can at least SAY that they were against it but were prohibited from saying anything.
And if Trump shuts it down and acknowledges it…🤔
The needle that will need to be threaded is how it is presented and explained to the public. It needs.to be well thought out and very deliberate…
Leo would even go so far as to say a Presidential Address to the country might be in order…
“Leo hopes it does.”
“Leo would even go so far as to say a Presidential Address to the country might be in order”
Peoria agrees, because this isn’t playing in Peoria.
It’s time to end this, and the failing NYT just unwittingly helped.
It’s time to stop pretending.
How about Lindsey Graham?
If anyone should be dropped into the center of the Russian Federation geared up in Ukrainian military colors it should be McConnell. He is most foul. He is a rotten to the core traitor and should be wrapped up in plastic with salt and laid out on Miami Beach.
He’s one of the ones who was proclaiming that we were getting a bargain in dead Ukrainians.
Add in almost all of the rest of the U.S. Congress.
Mitch could have ended this craziness before it got off the ground. But of course, he didn’t.
Tell me if I am wrong, but Mitch’s enthusiasm seems like a ghoulish legacy he relishes for himself.
who is leaking military intel to the media ??????
Schumer. Pelosi, Shift and Warner were not mentioned here. Who leaked to NYT/ Guess,,,
Perhaps this is why Sec. Rubio has been so adamant about closing USAID. He knows it’s CIA and was adamantly against what they were doing? I don’t know but he seemed sincere in his efforts to shut it down. Is this his way of gutting their nefarious resources and trying to make amends? Only time will tell.
Perhaps I’m being completely naive and full of Hopium. He was for the first time starting to impress me.
“…a Presidential Address to the country might be in order…” May that happen very soon!
The tariffs will be effective April 2, so that may be something that will get in the way. This new revelation by the NYT is so important.
Musk is at the Pentagon today, March 31. Things should be revving up. Thank you, Sundance!