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Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation
https://www.racket.news/ ^ | 3/31/2025 | Matt Taibbi

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: biden; nuclearrisk; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/31/2025 4:23:12 PM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 03/31/2025 4:23:25 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Biden’s handlers lied. Biden didn’t know if his ass was bored or punched.


3 posted on 03/31/2025 4:26:16 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: bitt

For those wondering, the reason the NY Times is finally TELLING THE TRUTH about the War in Ukraine is because they want to be able to blame Trump when Ukraine loses - as they’ll say that Ukraine was 100% reliant on us (something that even the Zeepers knew, but were gaslighting us here by denying it), and thus extricating ourselves from Ukraine caused them to lose - in other words, TRUMP LOST THE WAR. (they’ll conveniently ignore Trump’s only other option if he really didn’t want Ukraine to lose...which was go nuclear - doesn’t fit their planned take-down of Trump)

Funny, though, I cannot remember the NY Times having a problem when the Leftists engineered the Communist victory in South Vietnam. I guess their ‘principle’ is ‘situational’.


4 posted on 03/31/2025 4:33:44 PM PDT by BobL
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To: bitt

At one time Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone.

I suspect his work now reflects the anger at having been duped.


5 posted on 03/31/2025 4:34:51 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: bitt

No surprise. Biden’s handlers never wanted Ukraine to win. Their policies of limited/restricted aid to Ukraine and weak sanctions on Russia made that obvious.

That some find this breaking news is, frankly, hilarious. Sadly, it really is indictative about how little some know about a topic they breezily comment on.


6 posted on 03/31/2025 4:38:42 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: BobL

The Presidential Finding memo, signed by Briben, exonerates Pres Trump.

The Gang of Eight (Rubio) would know about this.

Go find it, Trump admin.


7 posted on 03/31/2025 4:39:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: bitt

We will find that this war was created by the WEF globalists under false pretenses and with zero interest in diplomacy.

Diplomacy was never attempted. Biden saber rattled while allowing Zelenskyy NAZIs to attack civilians within their own borders.

Biden himself had no clue. This war was orchestrated by those controlling the auto-pen. They practically begged Putin to invade.

After being given Crimea, Putin thought the West would accept partial Russian control.

Putin didn’t know the WEF leaders needed enriching from the slush fund and also drooled over reconstruction contracts with the most corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs who have been enriching the Biden’s and others for over a decade.


8 posted on 03/31/2025 4:42:23 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: lodi90

Oh BS, you Zeepers are now reverse lying when the truth gets some ink.

🤣🤣🤣


9 posted on 03/31/2025 4:44:37 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

The “truth” is President Trump is proposing new sanctions on Russia that Biden’s handlers never imposed. Pricesely because they would be effective and an economically collapsed Russia is the last thing Marxist Democrats ever wanted. But do carry on enjoying Chomskyite fairy tales if it floats your boat. FRegards.


10 posted on 03/31/2025 4:55:12 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Erik Latranyi

Ukrainians wanting their borders, language and culture separate separate form the filth and mass murder of the “Russian World” has exactly nothing to do with anybody but them. Why does it bother you so they defend their nation against another genocidal invasion of Russian barbarians?

“Do what we want or there will be WW3” is classical Kremlin Bolshevik gasligting of nearing 100 years now. No honest obvserver is duped by such nonsensical BS. Only the willfully blind and usefully fooled believe such fairy tales and submissively surrender to them.


11 posted on 03/31/2025 5:04:32 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: BobL

Funny how the zeepers all wanted fully open involvement of our soldiers yet they themselves were curiously disinclined to volunteer personally.


12 posted on 03/31/2025 5:04:39 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: All

Sourced only to amorphouus tone-deaf “US officials,” a massive NYT exposé
reveals the unprecedented betrayal of American voters.......and the Ukrainians:

“A feckless delusional Biden Lied About Everything,
Including Nuclear Risk, wrt the Ukraine Operation.”


13 posted on 03/31/2025 5:11:53 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......")
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To: Carry_Okie

He lived more than 10 years in Russia and surely got compromised. He always does what Russia wants and currently Russia wants articles like this.


14 posted on 03/31/2025 5:33:41 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: BobL

“For those wondering, the reason the NY Times is finally TELLING THE TRUTH…”

No, they aren’t. They’re just telling you what you want to hear.

L


15 posted on 03/31/2025 5:37:47 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Rocco DiPippo; Allegra; bimboeruption; Kazan; aMorePerfectUnion; Jumper; delta7; kiryandil

PING
Wow, the truth is coming out in floods and torrents! That means they know they can’t hide it anymore.


16 posted on 03/31/2025 5:42:47 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Krosan
He lived more than 10 years in Russia and surely got compromised.

Compromised? The guy who blew the lid on Twitter? Not hardly.

I was reading Matt Taibbi's work back when he was in Russia, when he wrote for a paper named "The eXile." Compromised? In a word, "No." He did hate the CIA's gambit in prompting Clinton's crooked pro-Moslem war in Kosovo. Does that make him a 'commie traitor'? No, at that time he was more of a libertine libertarian. Some of those come around about Democrat corruption, and he really has in a manner similar to Michael Shellenberger.

17 posted on 03/31/2025 6:10:15 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

I like Michael Shellenberger when he explains the idiocy of California environmentalists. That is something he knows as he used to be a high ranking one himself.

I think he is bad at analyzing other industries and wrongly assumes everything has the same power dynamics and dysfunction as the environmentalist movement.


18 posted on 03/31/2025 6:18:54 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Lurker

“No, they aren’t. They’re just telling you what you want to hear.”

Why now on my side? After all they’ve been telling YOUR SIDE everything you guys wanted to hear for 3 YEARS. Perhaps they’re sending a message that it’s time to stop lying about Ukraine, maybe for the reason that I posted earlier (as they can use telling the truth against Trump now)?


19 posted on 03/31/2025 6:31:42 PM PDT by BobL
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To: bitt

not a single assertion in the NYT so-called “secret war”exposé” was provided with either attribution or evidence, not even the standard “anonymous sources” ... it could just as easily have been fabricated from whole cloth ...

https://archive.ph/bCMQ5


20 posted on 03/31/2025 6:42:02 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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