Posted on 03/31/2025 4:23:12 PM PDT by bitt
Sourced to tone-deaf "U.S. officials," a massive New York Times exposé reveals an unprecedented betrayal of American voters, but also Ukraine
From “The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” in the New York Times:
At a hastily arranged meeting on the Polish border, General Zaluzhny admitted to Generals Cavoli and Aguto that the Ukrainians had in fact decided to mount assaults in three directions at once.
“That’s not the plan!” General Cavoli cried…
Fifteen months into the war, it had all come to this tipping point.
“We should have walked away,” said a senior American official.
But they would not.
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House nearly a month ago, the New York Times packed its pages with stories denouncing Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for abandoning Ukraine, and the impolitic “dressing down” of a friendly foreign leader. The Times like most Western news outlets for years suggested that anything short of a full-throated expression of support for war was a betrayal of the “democratic world order” that would lead to instant battlefield deaths.
Now that the war appears lost, and newspapers abroad (conspicuously, not here) are full of news about an apparent bombing of Vladimir Putin’s motorcade, and the future of NATO hangs by a thread, the Times has run a 13,000-word “Secret History” that shows the same U.S. officials who denounced Trump and American voters for saying it out loud long ago concluded that they, too, should probably “walk away.”
The piece is also an extraordinarily comprehensive betrayal of Zelensky and Ukraine, exponentially worse than the “dressing down” by Trump. Authored by longtime veteran of controversial intel pieces Adam Entous, it’s sourced to 300 American and European officials who seem to be responding to their apparent sidelining via a shameless tantrum, exhibiting behavior that in the field would get military men shot. Not only do they play kiss and tell with a trove of operational secrets, they use the Times to deflect blame from their own failures onto erstwhile Slavic partners, cast as ignorant savages who snatched defeat from the jaws of America-designed victory. It’s as morally abhorrent a piece of ass-covering ever as I’ve seen in print, and that somehow is not its worst quality.
The people who quarterbacked the NATO side of the Ukraine war are so pleased with themselves, they can’t keep from boasting about things that will make the average American want to pitchfork the lot of them. Entous describes a tale told “through a secret keyhole” that reveals how America was “woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.” (Translation: it was hidden from us.) Sources not only make it clear that the public was lied to on a continuous basis from the outset of the conflict, they describe how we were lied to, apparently thinking the methods clever. Some are small semantic gambits the idiots wrongly believe exculpated their actions, but the main revelation involves one gigantic, inexcusable deception. From Joe Biden down, they all lied about the risk of World War III.
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AutoPen Joe, the pantz-shizzing schmoe.
People getting real?
Biden’s handlers lied. Biden didn’t know if his ass was bored or punched.
That’s exactly what I clicked on this article to point out. Biden had no idea what was going on in Ukraine. He said what was on the teleprompter while Jill and Hunter made sure the money kept rolling in and was deposited in the correct Biden account.
Taibbi is correct when he said, “Heads need to roll for this”.
IMO-—BIDEN LIED ALL OF HIS LIFE.
HE LIED ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST WIFE & CHIlD
HE LIED ABOUT BEAU-—OVER & OVER AGAIN
HE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO LIE. NOTHING ELSE
Amen.
The willfully blind cannot see a failed state that is one of the most corrupt in the world. Until the Ukrainian people end the corruption and create law and order, Ukraine will remain a failed state that abuses its people and has no place aligned with the West.
I really don’t care what happens in that cesspool of a corrupt and failed nation. Keep my tax money out of it.
I sure hope that you are happy that the majority of what US taxpayers sent has gone missing.
The Wiesbaden cubicle-dwellers relayed battlefield intel to Ukrainians, where “again and again… Americans found it, and the Ukrainians destroyed it.” A mid-2022 rocket barrage in Kherson that killed “generals and staff officers,” along with a “predawn swarm of maritime drones, with support from the Central Intelligence Agency” that attacked the Russian port at Sevastopol, were together an early “proof of concept” that boosted confidence.My reaction: I KNEW IT!!
We 'all' knew it, but this is the first time I've seen any confirmation anywhere. Curious about the sourcing.
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