By Harold Pease Ph. D.
In the office of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is a Ukrainian flag. Biden has on his lapel an Ukrainian flag. When did Ukraine Become more Important than American Soil?
There has never been a piece of real estate in American history quite like Ukraine, whose border is far more protected from invasion by our money and military equipment than is our own southern border. Where Russian history, religion, language and culture have intertwined for more than a thousand years and with whom Ukraine has a shared border. Where the United States has no real claim or purpose. A place clearly controlled until 1991 by the U.S.S.R. led by Russia. But we have spent more money there than any other nation and risked nuclear war—even World War III with Russia, for the last ten years. Why? Because it is a Deep State country.
In 2014 the Deep State CIA assumed control of Ukraine in a coup of state similar to our own in 2020. LibertyUnderFire has published much on Ukraine. Here are three favorites (“It’s a Matter of Trust, Biden or Putin on Ukraine?,” Mar. 4, 2022, “The War Behind the War in Ukraine,”Apr. 4, 2022 and “Why Risk War with Russia to Protect Ukraine’s Border?” Feb. 17, 2023.
So why publish again? Because the New York Times, the lead Deep State newspaper in the world, just released the best kept secret of our day. An amazing confession that was censored just days ago but for some reason this time it wasn’t (“The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin,” The New York Times, Feb.25, 2024). It’s nice to be vindicated.
It leads, “For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.” What? A secret war with Russia by our CIA that could have at any moment escalated nuclear into mass annihilation for both countries is insanity and Barrack Obama and Joe Biden were key figures in the Ukrainian coup and since were complacent in the CIA’s activities. Only Congress can declare war and the executive branch has no authority to assist in a coup, or place a country in a position that feels it must defend itself from us.
What follows are some of the things the New York Times now openly reveals. The story opens where we are today with the disclosure of “a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military” a base “almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the CIA… The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies provide intelligence for targeted missile strikes, track Russian troop movements and help support spy networks.” All war time activities that have threatened Russia for a decade. Then it back tracts to the Coup of 2014 “when a fragile pro-Western government” aided by the Obama Administration’s CIA, “quickly took power.” Ukraine became a CIA Deep State country.
“With violence escalating, an unmarked U.S. government plane touched down at an airport in Kyiv carrying John Brennan, then the director of the CIA.” Before Brennan “would unlock CIA assistance, the Ukrainians had to prove that they could provide intelligence of value to the Americans. When he returned and reported to the Obama Administration they were rightly concerned about “lethal consequences” emanating from “provoking Moscow.”
A conscience was short lived. “In 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems… The CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia… The CIA also provided money and equipment for Ukrainian crews to rebuild “underground. To avoid detection, they only worked at night and when Russian spy satellites were not overhead. Workers parked their cars a distance away from the construction site.” In the bunker, “were communications equipment and large computer servers, some of which were financed by the CIA…. Teams were using the base to hack into the Russian military’s secure communications networks.” These, if done by Russia to the United States, would be acts of war.
“The relationship is so ingrained that CIA 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.” How effective was US help through its CIA for Ukraine? ‘Without them, there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them,’ said Ivan Bakanov, who was then head of Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the SBU.” All this “a closely guarded secret until now.”
The CIA turned “Ukraine into an intelligence-gathering hub that intercepted more Russian communications than the CIA station in Kyiv…” The Times reported, Putin learned of this threat to Russia “when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.” Now Ukraine was tracking Russian activity around the world.
Washington was clearly calling all the shots in Ukraine. On one occasion things went wrong resulting in the death of several Ukrainians. “In Washington, the Obama White House was livid. Joe Biden, then the vice president, called Ukraine’s president to angrily complain. ‘It causes a gigantic problem,’ Biden said in the call, a recording of which was leaked and published online. ‘All I’m telling you as a friend is that my making arguments here is a hell of a lot harder now.’” Presumably because, justifying CIA’s actions that led to death of Ukrainians, was difficult.
The New York Times documented that the CIA clearly provoked war with Russia for at least a decade.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly columns, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 757
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