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A New York Times exposé outs years of unsavory details about the Ukraine's relationship with the CIA, while a Ukrainian spy chief swats down U.S. messaging. Is a breakup at hand?
Over the weekend the New York Times published an epic exposé. “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin,” by Adam Entous and Mitchell Schwirtz, described a decade of CIA-Ukrainian cooperation, featuring details that would never reach public ears under normal circumstances. The opening is worth quoting at length.
Nestled in a dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears abandoned and destroyed…But that is above ground. Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders…
The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border.
Yowza! Officials have long scolded the public that even minor disclosures of “sources and methods” could “risk lives” and must be prevented at all costs. Yet here comes the Times, helping “current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe” blab a long list of extraordinary details, down to the number of CIA-supported secret bases along the Russian border.
When intelligence sources line up by the hundred to fill newspapers with “secret” details, they’re almost always doing one of two things: spreading disinformation, or “pre-bunking” embarrassing future revelations. The lavishly overwritten “secret untold story” that puts advance spin on ugly leaks has become a popular genre across this century’s many giant intelligence screwups.
In the wake of multiple disclosures since then suggesting Brennan’s conclusion was “cooked intelligence” and his supposed “longtime source” with access to the “highest level of the Kremlin” was anything but, the Post story in retrospect reads like a grand piece of inspired BS, designed to “pre-bunk” inevitable leaks about Brennan’s sourcing. Same with the absurdly vivid accounts in The Guardian and The New Yorker of the alleged British capture of suspicious “interactions” and “illicit communications” between Trump and Russia in 2015 that supposedly triggered the American collusion investigation. Those stories too now read like elaborate spin jobs, put out to defuse future questions about the origins of that investigation. - Intel Republic
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Highlights from Putin's State of the Nation as reported by Intel Republic
UNITY OF RUSSIA IS A COLOSSAL FORCE - Putin praises Russian people of all religions for standing together against West aiming to sow discord and turn Russia into a Ukraine-like state manipulated by arm dealers. They are confronted by the firm position of our people, our soldiers, Muslims and Christians, Buddhists and followers of Judaism, have shown that unity of Russia can overcome anything, by standing shoulder to shoulder we fight for our Motherland - Putin. - Intel Republic
RUSSIA IS STRONGHOLD OF TRADITIONAL VALUES - proudly declares Putin in above video. Smiles and nods of approval at State of Nation address as the Russian leader highlights that world at large, including millions in West look up to Russia's wokeness-free traditions that are upholding human civilization. - Intel Republic
PUTIN CHALLENGES THE WEST - Russian Prez issues determined warning to West's warmongers who are considering sending NATO troops to fight Russia with Ukraine. West continues to lie through its teeth without any shame saying Russia wants to attack Europe, it makes absolutely no sense. They are now talking about sending NATO contingents to Ukraine, we all remember what happens to those who try to attack our country, but now consequences for those potential invaders will be much more tragic - Putin. Russian leader lists few tasty missiles that will welcome any potential suicidal invaders who decide to find out. - Intel Republic
U.S. JUST WANTS TO DELUDE CITIZENS INTO BELIEVING IT STILL RULES THE WORLD - Putin deconstructs Washington's fuss about Russian space nukes as nothing but a ploy to force Moscow into arm treaties negotiations on U.S' terms and gain popularity points during elections. They're blocking our proposal which has been on their table for 15 years, it's not clear what they want. Words of today's American authorities about negotiations on strategic stability are demagoguery - Putin. - Intel Republic
RUSSIA SOON ONE OF WORLD'S 4 LARGEST ECONOMIES - Putin proudly highlights Russia as the largest economy in Europe in GDP and purchasing power, 5th in the world. Last year, Russian economy grew faster than global average and outpaced growth seen in G7 states, becoming more sophisticated and technologically advanced, with less reliance on natural resources - Putin. - Intel Republic
WE WILL BUILD NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE, FREE OF POLITICAL AGENDA - Promises Putin following crumbling of U.S. hegemony and West discrediting their own currencies. Russia together with its friendly states will continue to create an efficient and safe transport corridor infrastructure and build new global financial architecture, free of political agenda. We and our partners interact on basis of equality and fairness - Putin. - Intel Republic
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“If there is a general mood in the room not to focus on BSEC, let’s consider it as a talk show, as a self-made Security Council which we invented for ourselves, not for practical projects, not for helping people,” Birichevsky said, addressing Ukraine’s “provocative performance.”
For Russia, the issue of Ukraine is not about territory or geopolitics, but “a matter of life and death,” said the diplomat. “It is about being able to live as [we did] for ages – as one family, with the same core values that are not for foreign intruders to destroy.”
Birichevsky reminded his colleagues that Ukraine “lost its sovereignty” in 2014, “as a result of the US-EU sponsored and directed coup d’état.” He noted that President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted even after signing an agreement to settle the dispute with the nationalist protesters peacefully – mediated by France, Germany and Poland, none of whom cared when it was violated.
“If we want to remember everything today, then let’s remember everything,” Birichevsky said, bringing up the role of US diplomat Victoria Nuland in the coup.
He also called the government of Ukraine a “nationalist neo-Nazi regime… that has been conducting a full-fledged war against its own population” for the past decade. Just since February 2022, Birichevsky noted, the Ukrainian military has launched 32,388 attacks on the Donetsk People’s Republic alone, killing 4,787 civilians – including 142 children – and wounding another 5,776 people. - RT
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