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?
Sundance, I hope you can come back to clarify your post on P.1 of comments. You stated that you were sure President Trump was unaware of current CIA involvement.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/31/new-york-times-publishes-explosive-investigation-article-showing-u-s-military-boots-on-ground-in-ukraine-and-cia-operation-to-target-russian-federation-with-drones-and-missiles/comment-page-1/#comment-11689815
If you knew, and readers here (and elsewhere) knew, how could PDJT not know? Many people have been openly discussing CIA involvement in the Ukraine debacle, and it was most certainly known by Putin.
You stated above that you believe the NYT article is accurate. This is beyond troubling, yet there seems to be no fallout (yet). Hoping for your analysis soon, because this isn’t making sense.
(And thank you for all your efforts in investigating these critical matters.)
Kennedy was assasinated when he went against the CIA
1/10th correct
And they tried twice on Trump
100% agree with your comment. It is a form of cognitive dissonance to suggest Trump doesn’t know.
It makes it easier to suggest Trump has no idea then to admit the alternative. The fact is he should know and if he doesn’t he has learned nothing from 2016-2020. If he didn’t know, he does now, and should simply instruct the DOD and CIA to stop. However, even with that knowledge now; we are still sending aid to Ukraine.
The fact is 100 percent of change right now is being done by executive order. All this can be undone with the next election. This is another example of having the executive and House/Senate but nothing to show for it with regard to transformative legislation/change.
The IC and the DOJ/FBI are simply waiting it out.
Because speculation and evidence are two different things. Just because you see something written on a blog somewhere doesn’t mean it’s evidence of anything.
According to the article, the CIA didn’t get involved until 2023. Biden cut off Trump’s access to intel back in 2021.
So Trump only knows what you know, which is nothing but pure speculation.
Trump always knew more than we the people did about anything. That’s why I get angry when he does something like letting the Biden administration CIA stay in place.
Ah, the people paying attention no longer get their information from mainstream media, but MSM is where the political class gets its information.
For instance, its almost certainly where the Susy Wiles types and Trump’s advisors get their info.
That’s why the disconnect. (It’s also why they believe their own bullskype, and plan according to it.)
“thAn to admit the alternative” lol… There is a world of difference.
If he “doesn’t know”, perhaps they have less incentive to kill him.
This might also be why he went MIGA/MAGA (Miriam Adelson’s Goals Accomplished); he needs the protection the Bomb Iran faction offers so he can wind up the mess in Ukraine, “the 2nd Israel”, first.
One extremely canny host said Trump might quietly let the Zelensky funds run out and not renew them in time for the Russian spring offensive; he’s already cut the nads off Victoria Nuland’s NED/CIA funding by shuttering USAID. That would leave Israel alone and dependent on our good favor, so Trump would have leverage in return.
About not knowing, was Biden’s ‘finding memo’ and ‘auto-signed’, meaning he the one who didn’t know, and Ratcliff wasn’t with the CIA during Biden’s term.
In the Matt Taibbi, Walter Kirn you tube video (posted link earlier) where they discuss this article, they too believe it’s accurate and their insight was so spot on, in m opinion only, that I went back and listened to it again. Toward the end they bring up the author of the article, the same one who wrote the “U.S. spynet on Israel snares Congress” in 2015 where the NSA, spying on Israeli officials caught members of U.S. Congress’s private conversations; and also wrote the initial ‘breaking’ story on the NSA spying on Carter Page, both stories that failed to garner left-wing media running with it – the beginning of the Russiagate movement.
Indicative of what Sundance has said NYT runs the stories for the benefit of the DHS, the domestic priorities of the IC. Which means, there’s something else cooking to cause this story to be written when it was, with the author being a nice indicator that something else the agency has been up to is about to be revealed, as Walter Kirn says ‘they are telling enough of the truth so they can lie to you again’ purpose for the article.
Thanks for the helpful reply, Bessie. It is something to consider, though still leaves us wondering when the other shoe will drop.
there’s something else cooking to cause this story to be written when it was
Probably, the information was about to come to light publicly through other avenues
Could be as simple as them getting ahead of the news that was bound to break
Largest farce since the Bay of Pigs/Cuban missile crisis fiasco and the most dangerous.
It is one thing for any reasonable person to deduce the level of involvement of the CIA and US DOD in the Ukrainian war with Russia but is is quite another to have it publicized. Publicized in such detail as to embarrass both the Russian and US leadership.
President Trump loses credibility if he doesn’t take forceful action immediately to end US involvement in Ukraine and reassure the American public he has complete control of the IC and the DOD. At this moment in time the president of the US does not appear to be in control of his military and intelligence community.
Appearances that entities other than the executive chain of command are in control cannot and must never be tolerated in America. The fourth branch of US government has been revealed to the world and must be eliminated as a threat to world peace and the validity of the US government.
President Trump loses credibility if he doesn’t take forceful action immediately to end US involvement in Ukraine
Yeah, maybe that’s the purpose of the NYT article
If it’s an issue that PresTrump and his advisers need to unwind with Vlad, this certainly lights a fire under it and gives PresTrump scant preparation time to resolve it
At this moment in time the president of the US does not appear to be in control of his military and intelligence community.
Yeah, that’s apparent and – again – possibly a main motivation behind the article: to paint PresTrump with egg on his face.
And maybe Ratcliff isn’t in control of his own intelligence community.
I remember reading The New Yorker while standing in line at Gelson’s in N. Hollywood about a week or two after WACO. They claimed that Janet Reno had been deceived by a “rogue element” in the FBI. Seems like this problem has always been with us and will never go away. Maybe every single member of any group in the government should be polygraphed periodically (and randomly) to help root out these people who always seem to know better.
yep – across the board polygraphs … and 1 year repeat cycle
Better yet, across the board arrests, en masse.
You wanted the high stakes job, you get the high stakes with it.
Real risk is the only way to impose responsibility.
The Director is just a figurehead. You’d have to fire everyone and start over for any change to take place. Same with FBI.
Sounds like the only way to me, so let’s try it.
Can’t be any worse; what are you going to end up with, a bunch of patriots?
Sure looks like IC is doing plenty so that impeachment round 3 yields Senate conviction…
All out internal war, obviously.
God help us, God bless VSGPDJT & loyal patriot team members !
Unfortunately, the fourth branch is trying to eliminate Trump as a threat to world plans and the validity of their government.
looks like a few of our guys got caught up in some kind of trouble over there in Eastern Europe
U.S. Military Vehicle Recovered in Lithuania, But Fate of Four Soldiers Still Unknown
A U.S. armored vehicle that went missing in Lithuania has been retrieved from a swamp after a six-day search but there is still no information about the fate of the four American soldiers who were on board, Lithuanian officials said Monday.
Yesterday 3 of the 4 crew members were found dead. The fourth is still missing. 🙁
They may have met foul play by criminals or by pro-Russian forces who are tired of the CIA bombing Moscow with drones and sending terrorists to shoot up their malls.
Or they may have died in combat. I’ve long assumed “training accidents”, etc. were, in fact, combat casualties.
Yeah, here’s the scoop for you searching for “reasons” to go to full out WW3 with Russia: The U.S. Army M88 Armored Recovery Vehicle’s crew got lost and drove their vehicle into a swamp, where it promptly sand into. They got lost and drowned. Don’t know why after days you’re still clueless when the story was already given about the “reasons”. Oh wait, yeah I do. It’s so you can play the Nimrod. Man.
Thanks for the info but the motives you assign are baseless and exactly backwards.
What motive? I call ’em as I see ’em. Nimrod is a derogatory term, a colloquial term that’s used as a substitute for idiot, moron, and other unsavory synonyms man. Why not ask him the reason for the pseudonym? He’s just playing the pun. Get with the game man.
Nimrodman is a respected, honorable, and long-time commenter at the Treehouse.
One can always identify a troll by his or her attack on a respected member of the Treehouse.
Thanks, Nimrodman, for contributing so much valuable insight over the years!
appreciate your voicing support, Macro
as I explain below, I assigned no great import to the stuck-tracked-vehicle link, I was simply pointing out another spot we’ve got “boots on the ground” (“Lithuania? What the hell are we doing in Lithuania?”)
just found a link to what some of it’s about
looks like we may be assisting Germany in opening a new NATO front against Russia
so not only “boots on the ground” but also potentially “mischief afoot”
POWDER KEG EUROPE: In First Foreign Deployment Since WW2, Germany to Station 5,000 Troops in Lithuania as Latest Escalation Against ‘Russian Threat’
How does our military “drive a vehicle into a swamp?” Are they really that inept?
A couple of young soldiers accidentally drove the wrong way in Iraq and right into a group of jihadists who ended up torturing them in front of each other (pulling out eyes and other horrible things) until they died. Famous war correspondent (and former Special Forces soldier) Michael Yon said: “They died in Hell.” It happens, especially when they are thrust into strange countries and unknown territory. Gived them a break.
You should have told me about this before I posted my comment – I was not privy to this info. I would have been happy to give them a break.
How does our military drive a helicopter into a passenger jet? Are they really that inept?
Apparently, yes.
Try driving a huge tracked vehicle at night, in the fog, with your night vision goggles on sometime. Now imagine you’re a young female in her mid to early twenties. Quite easy actually.
Especially a young female pilot that has been playing Marine dress-up escort for Biden Whitehouse for 2 years prior. Very, Very easy.
It wasn’t just the fact of the young female screwing the mission up resulting in all those civilian deaths. I blame the brass who thought it would be a good idea to do training exercises in the flight path of incoming commercial aircraft at one of the busiest airports in the country in the first place. That takes some real braincells to dream up. There apparently isn’t even any common sense left in some areas of the pentagon.
You too should have informed me of this info and btw I am not in favor of women doing men’s jobs.
63 ton vehicle into unstable ground conditions, also known as a bog swamp. They still recover tanks from WWII that drove into swamps and lakes. – https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/us-news/us-army-vehicle-recovered-from-lithuanian-swamp-as-fate-of-4-missing-soldiers-remains-unknown/
What? Our military could not fight their way out of a swamp???
Nim, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the failing NYT problem. President Trump explained it in yesterday’s presser, posted by SD (the one with Kid Rock). Toward the end, as I recall. Very well worth a listen, to hear PDJT explain it. Just tragic. 🙁
“Nim, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the failing NYT problem”
No, I wasn’t intimating that it did.
I simply posted it as an example that we’ve got “boots on the ground” in a bunch of different locales around the world, some well-known (Germany, South Korea) and some more obscure (Lithuania) and some essentially illegally and covert (Ukraine), covert enough that NYT can make a big deal about “revealing” it (despite the many “well, I KNEW IT”s chiming up here.
I’ve got no deep insight into tracked vehicles and boggy ground, I just saw a headline and threw it up for no deeper reason than
“Hey – ‘BOOTS’ here too!”
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And Arthur — you might wanna ease off the coffee, buddy, lest it incline you to ascribe motivations to others that may be solely within your noggin. I’m not looking to go to war with Russia. At all.
“Yeah, here’s the scoop for you searching for “reasons” to go to full out WW3 with Russia”
A most gracious reply, nimrodman (love the avatar and the joke, btw), I’m pretty sure everybody knew you were just illustrating the fact we’re scattered all over there for no good reasons.
Arthur doggy just found some furniture to gnaw, bad doggy.
thx, Alzaebo, safe travels to you
“Three US Soldiers found deceased after M88A2 Hercules recovered – Posted By U.S. Army Europe and Africa Public Affairs On April 1, 2025 – The Soldiers went missing in the early morning hours of March 25 in their M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle while conducting a mission to repair and tow an immobilized tactical vehicle. Search and recovery operations continue for the remaining fourth Soldier. U.S. Army units supported by Lithuanian Armed Forces and law enforcement conducted a search in the area and found the Soldiers’ vehicle submerged in a body of water in the early hours of March 26. The M88A2 was removed from the peat bog early Monday morning, March 31” — Source: https://www.army.mil/article/284301/three_us_soldiers_found_deceased_after_m88a2_hercules_recovered
3 out of 4 now found
The Duran analyses here:
JMO.
“Will he?”
Of course he will.
There are no secrets about biden’s TOTAL involvement of the USA government in u-crane….. executive branch, legislative and judicial branches ….. with the names of those involved. That was one of the reasons for the huge vote for President Trump on 11/5/24.
Thanks for your supportive suggestions to President Trump on how he will do it.
He has earned the right to do it his way, on his time table with the people he appoints…. the NYT and the other remaining globalists in the executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as the bleachers on the sidelines, be damned.
_______________________________________________________
Day 72 of the President Trump Executive Branch.
One of the remaining critical areas for D.O.G.E. involvement —— At day 72, it is obvious the current management is not going to get the job done on their own or they would have already done it instead of resisting, from 1/20/25, D.O.G.E.’s involvement in their areas.
One remaining critical area: Physically removing the multi-thousands of Executive Branch federal employees who weaponized the biden’s Executive Branch against Americans for the past 8 years. Resistance to D.O.G.E. came from the DOJ, FBI, ATF, and CIA departments.
Note: Good news: “CIA Director John Ratcliffe invited Elon Musk to meet with him next week, suggesting the nation’s top intelligence agencies won’t be exempt from the tech billionaire’s efforts to slash government spending”….. 1 o 4 departments is a start.
Those in position need to do their job. The citizens of USA need results, not words, not promises. Definitely not warnings from newly appointed choices of Trump.
I think President Trump forced these Crap Weasels to say UNCLE.
Let the BIG UGLY out!!
MAGA.
MNN BREAKING…
*PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SPONSOR DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN BOTH SIDES, THE CIA AND RUSSIA
Manufactured News Network: “We’re Beginning to Suspect Russia Didn’t Bomb Their Own Pipeline!”
The BANKERS are nearly INSOLVENT, the only way out is WWIII, it’s always been that way, this time is no different. The “tiny hats” that run the FIAT system are always in control, both sides, every single time……POTUS ran on peace, yet here we are closer to WWIII than when Sleepy Joe was at the helm. That WAR criminal Bibi will set the ME on fire and the US will do his bidding, Iran is next. Look at all the “tiny hats” and who surrounds DJT……..Classic
Don’t quite understand why, even if Biden, did such an order, President Trump entering the oval office annuls that. He is the commander in chief now, not Biden. Those of the CIA in Ukraine should be immediately fired for overstepping their authority. What good is a CIA director if he can’t control his people’s actions and what good is a DOD if he can’t control his?
Thanks for the info and heads up Sundance.
What is sickening to me is that these shadow people believe that are doing the Lord’s work. They laugh as people die.
Vietnam redux. Get these troops out. Now.
Maybe Trump wanted it leaked.
The DS intent is to put the squeeze on Trump’s art of the deal with Putin. The same way facts were finally recognized as Menendez was prosecuted only after he popped off against the O.
As a US citizen, I do NOT give permission to my government to conduct war against Russia in the Ukraine!
It’s time for President Trump to completely cut off ALL support to Ukraine, money, military, and CIA. Make it a no-go zone for all members of the Executive branch, punishable by immediate termination. And make it clear that any American citizen in the Ukraine are on their own with no support from the American government. We, meaning this administration, must freely admit that the previous administration helped kill Russian soldiers and citizens. And be forceful about the fact that has stopped and will not restart during the next 4 years.
I hope Putin doesn’t decide to take advantage of it and conquer the rest of Ukraine but if so, that’s the price for us intentionally and unnecessarily poking the bear.
And then forcibly bring the CIA to heel. By whatever means necessary. The only difference between the CIA and the FBI is that is easier for the CIA to hide their corruption and incompetence. Both organizations are rotten to the core.
I wouldn’t pit it past the CIA helping Ukraine shell the Russian supporting region of Ukraine, just to start the war.
I wonder if the “presidential finding memo” was auto-penned…
Not only Rubio, Trump needs to check Mike Waltz, he made a lot of strange remarks about Trump before the election and has been a 100% supporter of the fighting between Ukraine and Russia. He is a Russophobe.
Big Deal. So What.
First, I am against supporting this war. But, if you are the US and your position is to support Ukraine and resist Russia then this is exactly what you would expect and hope that the CIA and military was doing to help the cause. Targeting your enemy and destroying them is the job you were assigned to do and you do it.
Now President Trump can use this as a political aid to help stop the war but this is certainly only scandalous for the pretending crowd.
The NYT only revealed what Sundance has already published. If Trump was ignorant about this it gives him the opportunity to have a “come to Jesus” meeting with those involved, and get rid of those disloyal.
In any case, it’s time for a change in direction. It is clear that Zelenskyy and his handlers do not want peace. The President is intent on saving lives but fewer would probably die if we stop all support for Ukraine, get out of NATO, and let this mess come to a speedy end. GET US OUT OF BIDEN’S WAR.
Please President Trump there are better ways to spend our hard owned tax dollars; pay down the debt, feed the hungry, house the homeless.
GOD bless America, God bless President Trump.
Mary
Disabled Vietnam vet
Living on Social Security and VA disability
Rabid conservative
Republican voter
Thank you for your service, Mary. My father was a disabled WW2 vet, and when I think about all the money we’ve sent to Ukraine when our own patriots are suffering, it makes my red American blood boil. Keep the faith.
Thanks for the kind comment. Sometimes our leaders miss things that are really important. How can America be Great Again when we have citizens that are homeless, hungry, or need medical care. I know my comment sounds liberal but it is hard for me to justify in my mind why we are concerned about Russian and Ukrainian soldiers when Americans are dying from neglect. .
No way in the world do I believe PDT did not know this. On the contrary, I believe he has known all along and has used a process of slow reveal allowing the public to finally peek behind the curtain. Only once completely severing a huge source of their funding and influence (USAID), releasing the JFK files (evidencing their dirty deeds), and announcing DOGE will enter the CIA, were these articles written. That indicates to me that Trump is now in control, at least to the extent of now having influence over their (CIA’s) publication arms at NYT and others to get them to put the info out in the daylight.
President Trump may know some of this (as we have known or speculated thanks to Sundance and others), but he is NOT in full control of the rogue intelligence agency yet. Same with the FIB. Same even with the military, although that is changing more quickly.
The dilemma remains relative to world events and timing. PDJT is trying to broker a deal on a ceasefire and grand ending to the Ukraine disaster. Problem is Russia is in full control…they have almost all the cards. They are in the position of strength on the battlefield. They will dictate the primary terms of a deal. The Euro globalists and their co-puppet Z will continue to resist, counting on the U.S. stepping into WW3.
Trump must act but he’s being wedged into a massive trap. Pull all support and Russia’s advances will be blamed on him. Push back and he is now tied onto the globalists demonic plan.
Cut off all clandestine assistance, immediately. Shut down military and spook help, but monitor carefully to catch leakers and resisters. Continue negotiating. We will continue praying.
Why didn’t Trump do this as soon as he entered office? This is the kind of thing that bothers me about him – allowing the CIA to carry on whatever they are doing. He should have fired them all when he took over and appointed his own people. Why in the world would he allow people appointed under Biden to remain in the CIA – of all agencies?
Is it possible that President Trump indicated to the NYT that they better report the truth or face consequences? And then see what the NYT’s reports?
The USA/NATO/CIA are running the war, are they running any of the 58 ski resorts currently operating in Ukraine. Plans for a new billion-dollar resort are in the works. What is going on ? Those USA aid $$ are buying a lot of extras,
“Honey, let’s get away and take the kids on a ski trip to Ukraine. It’ll be like Utah, only with Nazis instead of Mormons!”
Sounds like more money laundering.
Meanwhile, Mark Steyn reported “Ukrainians” dropping a million dollars a day in luxury shops at ski resorts in the Swiss Alps.
Huzzah! History Debunked! A stout British chap from the old school, who stands with his people and hates his government.
Who ( or what) in fact signed the “ finding memo?” Auto-pen, perhaps? Smart money says YES.
Trump 45-47 needs to understand how the Gang of 8 was informed. My guess is if the CIA was true to form the briefings were individualized as they were for Russiagate by Brennan. The President must understand this before doing anything.
that’s a hugely important point, thx
so you’re intimating that if Marco was briefed, he may not have been given the true or entire story?
ah, right after hitting RETURN, I see mike55’s comment below
it’s quite often that others will say something I said, but better and more knowledgeably
Given all the corruption recently discovered along with many years of secrets, lying, or just vague info, isn’t it possible Rubio, Radcliffe and Trump only got a superficial read out with no specific tasks noted about these boots on the ground? Isn’t is possible the CIA only disclosed “subject matter experts” were in Ukraine? Maybe even SlowJoe didn’t know the full extent of our involvement.
The first auto pen war! The communists behind the Biden admin would have no qualms about doing this given the social security number giveaway scandal. Think about it. 2020 riots, open borders, J6 prosecutions, homeless encampments, unlimited abortion, and many other plots, are the work of leftists that need to be prosecuted. All of the democrat actions going back to Obama show us they have no concern nor compassion for humanity. All they care about is power and think they are entitled to it.
I think the NYT is only revealing this because they have a scheme to blame Trump for it.
“In order for the CIA to operate in Ukraine, Joe Biden had to sign a “presidential finding memo”. I’ll bet he used the auto-pen…
Is CIA dirty?
Was Pompeo more loyal to CIA than to Trump?
Pompeo is an outcast. Hmmm
I hope so.
Sundance: Are you confident that your letter will actually be read by our President? How confident?
Zero confidence.
Trump is purposefully isolated from information.
Wish that we had Stephen Miller’s ear
I can remember when General Kelly was tasked to stop PDJT from seeing/reading certain information sites because they were truthful. Anyway to get your letter to someone close to PDJT to get to him? I wish you had a direct line of communication to him. I learned all about the real NATO in their illegal actions/wars against the Serbian people, Russia’s (and ours) traditional allies and little brothers & sisters. Slainte Sundance!
What about sending a copy of the letter to Tulsi and maybe Hegseth? Maybe one of them could get PDJT’s ear.
“The role played by the CIA in the OSCE KVM is quite controversial – at a time when the US and NATO were accusing the Serbian government of committing atrocities, the CIA was using the cover provided by the OSCE observer mission to coordinate with fighters from the Kosovo Liberation Army who were engaged in a guerilla war with the Serbian military. Serbian operations in response to CIA-directed KLA attacks were being characterized by the West as ‘genocide’, and used to justify a planned NATO aerial bombardment of Serbia.”
This same Kosovo Liberation Army run by the CIA was also tied to Al-Qaeda who they told us did 9/11. At least 2 of the hijackers according to the official story of 9/11 were Bosnian war veterans, allies of the Clinton Admin/NATO/UN Globalists. So in reality the Serbs were really fighting the War On Terror a decade before 9/11
NATO’s Bombing of Serbia: The Unpunished War Crime
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/03/24/natos-bombing-of-serbia-the-unpunished-war-crime
Can’t thank you enough, Colkitto. Biden’s CIA simply repeated what Hillary’s CIA did…the destruction of Yugoslavia and attempted murder of Serbia, because Serbia is an ally of Russia. (Hillary was Dept. of State, remember, CIA is also State, not DOD.) The whole shebang started when Muslims started killing Serbian police in riots, which our press reported as “oppression of peaceful protestors.”
(As a followup, after the war, Saudi Arabia painted over the 700 year-old frescoes in the former Yugoslavian cathedrals and mosques in Bosnia, as Wahhabist Islam had not taken hold in Eastern Europe, only a milder cultural form as in Albania. Bosnia, like Ukraine, became ‘hooker central’, a trafficking nexus.)
Wesley Clark (he’s not of European ancestry) shipped 4500 Afghan mujahideen to what became Bosnia so they could help the KLA mafia keep open its heroin ratline from Afghanistan’s poppy fields to Europe; some of those “freedom fighters” opened up a little mosque in Hamburg, where the initial planning for their part in 9-11 occurred, that is, training with the CIA in little abandoned airfields as “flight pilots” (actually, just drug runners in small planes like those used by Oliver North in his Contra cocaine-for-guns scheme.)
The wildest, wackiest part of 9-11 was accidentally revealed in Popular Mechanics the year before; two Israeli companies had sold the Pentagon commercial airflight software packages that could be transmitted to the plane via its communication links. That software could then take over control of the plane’s electronics “in the event of a hijacking”, enabling remote control of the flight, even cutting off radio comms “to prevent false maydays” from being broadcast by the pilots.
Woops, correcting a mistake.
“what Hillary’s CIA did…the destruction of Yugoslavia and attempted murder of Serbia, because Serbia is an ally of Russia. (Hillary was Dept. of State, remember, CIA is also State, not DOD.)”
Please excise that part, Hillary was State under Obama much later. My apologies for confusing the Clinton regime with Hillary’s later career, as Mad Albright, Hillary’s Croatian Jewish friend, was head of State at the time. She didn’t regret 500,000 dead children in Iraq, either, from the Oil-for-Food scandal.
The rest is as accurate as best I can keep it, please pardon my stumble. I remember Hillary did have a part to play, but memory fails me.
Kill Chains,And other C2 “issues”. Why they matter and how US military loses wars.
The “institute” he can’t quite remember the name of is the Institute for the Study of War, (ISW), the heart of the Neocon movement that has controlled our foreign policy for over 30 years.
The Institute is run by the Kagan family, that is, Robert Kagan and his notorious wife Victoria Nuland, along with a sister Kagan and Fred Kagan, Robert’s brother. They, like Vindmann, Blinken, and many other prominent Neocon and Biden administration members are of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry or dual citizens. Along with such Straussians as Podhoretz, Kristol, Ignatiev, and Jaffa, these are the Neocon shapers of the Narrative. They have an ancestral hatred of all things Russia.
Did Waltz also know?
I can imagine a conversation between PresTrump and Putin:
Vlad :
“Don – I know you’d like to play the role of honest broker in seeking a Ukraine peace deal and all, but the New York Times says America’s got its CIA guys stationed in Ukraine and feeding targeting imagery and coordinates to the Ukrainians, who are lobbing missiles into my country and killing my civilians.
“I think we got a little problem heahhhhh” (in best Russian-Bronx accent, clutching groinal vicinity)
“What can you tell me about that?”
“Don?”
Biden was insane: “US Military and C.I.A. officers in Wiesbaden helped plan and support a campaign of Ukrainian strikes in Russian-annexed Crimea…Finally, the military and then the C.I.A. received the green light to enable pinpoint strikes deep inside Russia itself.”
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
The only thing I find wrong with this article is that Biden did not sign the memo. It was done with Autopen I am sure.
Trump knows how to fire people if needed.
I’d say Chris Cavoli has some explaining to do.
Walter Kirn & Matt Tiabbi analyze the Entous article in their American This Week podcast:
https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1906898332926243180
Walter is on 🔥🔥🔥. Don’t miss his closing commentary. It’s must listen.
If indeed Rubio was briefed, he would not have been able to talk about it to Trump until after he was sworn in.
Then Trump would need time to develop and evaluate a response.
And then he would anounce the response.. . maybe something like stopping assistance and intelligence sharing with ukraine? (hit the news on 5 March)
Though the UK and France seem to have gone in to “fill the void”.
You will lose credibility if you drone on about ”stop the killing” and keep supplying Ukraine with military gear. You all have participated in running the war and the Ukraine military has been your mercenary army. Putting ”pressure” on Russia or more sanctions will do nothing useful. The war is lost, either extricate yourself or go down with it. Nuclear is the only option you have left. What is so important to the CIA and Deep State that you will go there?
Maybe now we know how Trump was allowed to win his election.
Ratcliffe is just a figurehead who hasn’t really ever accomplished anything for the people.
Rubio at State was the bargaining chip. That’s what Trump had to give up.
“In order for the CIA to operate in Ukraine, Joe Biden had to sign a “presidential finding memo”
Simple enough.
That only takes one autopen.