/Pogled.info/ Why did the world media talk about the network of secret CIA bases in Ukraine near the border with Russia?
The American newspaper The New York Times published the article “The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” (“The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin”), in which it reveals top-secret military secrets that are not only to Ukraine, but above all to its owners.
Two well-known American journalists, multiple winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Adam Entus and Michael Schwirtz, did a tremendous job: they took more than 200 interviews in Ukraine, in a number of other European countries and the United States, to reveal to the world community secrets of the CIA and the Pentagon, carefully preserved for many years.
Enthus and Schwirtz’s report describes a network of 12 underground military bases along the borders of Ukraine and Russia designed to spy on the Russian military. This network was created during the presidencies of Obama, Trump and Biden and is “the secret nerve center of the Ukrainian armed forces”.
„There is another secret: the base is almost entirely funded and partially equipped by the CIA “the article says.
“Located in dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears to be an abandoned and dilapidated building, the victim of a Russian missile attack early in the war. But it’s above ground.
A short distance away, an inconspicuous passage descends into an underground bunker, where groups of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line follows the route of an explosive-laden kamikaze drone as it passes through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov.
The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a network of spy bases established with the support of the CIA over the past eight years and includes 12 secret sites along the Russian border,” wrote the authors of the article, who visited top-secret military facilities in Ukraine.
„These intelligence networks are now more important than ever as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk: If congressional Republicans freeze military funding for Kiev, the CIA may have to cut spending “,
– note the Pulitzer Prize winners, simply asking the question for what purpose they are releasing these secrets, especially since their dear Ukraine is in dire need of diversion, which is largely provided by the intelligence coming from these underground spy bunkers.
At the same time, the authors of the publication write with undisguised pride that on the pages of The New York Times for the first time they reveal “the details of this intelligence partnership, which has been kept in the strictest secrecy for ten years. “
The American liberal mouthpiece not only exposed the secret network of spy bases in Ukraine, but also revealed how in 2015 General Valery Kondratyuk, then head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, “arrived for a meeting with the CIA’s deputy chief of staff unannounced and handed over a stack of top-secret files containing secrets about Russia’s Northern Fleet, including detailed information on Russia’s latest nuclear submarine designs. Soon groups of CIA operatives began regularly leaving his office with backpacks full of documents.
Quoting the same Kondratyuk who was extensively questioned by two Pulitzer winners, The News York Times says that it was of these twelve underground bases that “Ukrainian intelligence officers run a network of agents gathering information about them in Russia.”
Involuntarily, suspicions creep in that the newsroom of America’s liberal mouthpiece has been recruited by Russian intelligence or has been struck by a fit of collective insanity.
However, everything is much simpler. America’s leading liberal newspaper keeps its nose in the wind and clearly articulates the political agenda, which is that the United States is preparing public opinion for the surrender of Ukraine, the need for which has practically disappeared for the Western establishment.
Another titan of the liberal media, The Washington Post, is also preparing the American voter for the fact that the United States will soon send Ukraine on a “self-directed one-way trip of a sexual nature.”
“Washington Post” suddenly remembered the leak of operational data from the American intelligence last spring about the very negative military prospects of Ukraine.
Among the published online materials, notes The Washington Post, are “never-released estimates of casualties among Ukrainian forces, information about Ukraine’s problems with repairing and maintaining damaged armored combat vehicles and a shortage of ammunition for air defense systems, which made Ukrainian cities vulnerable to Russian cruise missile strikes and unmanned aircraft’.
Other documents say Ukraine faces serious difficulties in trying to replenish its forces with personnel, artillery and armored vehicles, and that this is likely to result in only modest territorial gains that fall far short of Kiev’s goals.
„This gloomy intelligence forecast contrasted sharply with the optimistic statements of the [официален] Washington for the upcoming counter-offensive and did significant damage to Ukraine’s relationship with its main patron, the US government,” writes The Washington Post, paying tribute to the “competent work” of American intelligence, which, they say now, even then predicted the defeat of Ukraine. And for the current situation, only the Ukrainians are to blame, who were given everything they needed to win, but achieved nothing.
„After all, the intelligence analysts were right: despite new weapons, masses of military equipment and months of training of Ukrainian soldiers, on which tens of billions of dollars were spent, Kiev was unable to regain significant parts of the lost territory and cut into Russian land corridor leading to Crimea, which was the main target of the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian armed forces,” concluded The Washington Post, pouring a cold shower on the heads of the Ukrainian military, previously praised by the Americans.
In another article, the publication directly writes: “In Ukraine, the risk does not lie in the impasse.” This is defeat.” (In Ukraine, the risk isn’t stalemate. It’s defeat).
„This grim scenario would be a stunning blow to the prestige and credibility of the West, showing that pledges to support Ukraine “as much as necessary“ it’s empty talk,” says newspaper columnist Lee Hockstader.
This same decadent tone was adopted by the European media.
„The political problem of our time is this: the EU entered the conflict in Ukraine with no strategy and therefore no idea what to do next. Since Ukraine lost, it came “after”. And nobody knows what to do. The EU’s increasingly corrupt ruling class has lost its ability to lead.” writes Italy’s IL Fatto Quotidiano.
„The truth is that Ukraine is over, but all those who supported this conflict cannot admit it. “Ukraine lost because it fought for a goal that cannot, cannot be, achieved.” notes the release.
„US plans in Ukraine have failed. This failure is already recognized by both the Western centers and the administration in Kyiv. We are entering a period when the United States will “hand over” Ukraine,” says Turkish analyst Mehmet Perincek.
Now Washington is deploying, as we wrote, a cynical scenario “which amounts to a kind of drip irrigation” aid delivery, which maintains the perception of American support for Ukraine, but does not provide a real prospect of a Ukrainian victory.
This is ultimately a cynical play calling for Ukrainians to die – more slowly, but for which they themselves can be held responsible – “we never abandoned Ukraine, they lost themselves”.
As for the disclosure of Ukrainian military secrets by the American media, this should remind our “non-brothers” of the famous geopolitical maxim: the only thing worse than war with the Anglo-Saxons is friendship with them.
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2024-03-01 18:46:01
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