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re: Trump apparently does not have control of rogue CIA factions in Ukraine.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 6:37 pm to GumboPot
Posted on 3/31/25 at 6:37 pm to GumboPot
How does this put the president in an awkward position?
One, Putin knows all this and sees Trump trying to end it
Two, seems like a beautiful out of us to pull out with no strings.
On another note, we pull that support, ukraine will crumble quickly.
One, Putin knows all this and sees Trump trying to end it
Two, seems like a beautiful out of us to pull out with no strings.
On another note, we pull that support, ukraine will crumble quickly.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 6:46 pm to GumboPot
Get Putin to take them out.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:02 pm to trinidadtiger
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This^^^^ is why I call it the Bureaucratic State and not the Deep State or Administrative State.
Ive heard Mike Benz and others call it "the blob". Cause it includes all the aforementioned, plus, the MIC, the MSM, 1.2 million NGOs (at last count), much of congress, legislative branch, and the new world order globally.
The Bureaucratic State Skunks are not overly concerned about Trump/MAGA, or DOGE, or America First....they are very confident they can outlast Trump/MAGA.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:13 pm to Bass Tiger
RED........retired extremely dangerous. Bruce Willis could straighten that crowd out.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:14 pm to GumboPot
1. Cut funding
2. Offer immunity if they change their ways and come clean
3. If they don’t, put them in jail
2. Offer immunity if they change their ways and come clean
3. If they don’t, put them in jail
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:18 pm to notsince98
But if you cut off the “dark money” like they have methodically been doing, it will put a dent in their capabilities.
We need to start perp walking like a true Dictator.
Wait for a DNC/WHO/NATO CONFERENCE & round them up, death on scene.
That’s the only way to treat pure evil, with evil!
We need to start perp walking like a true Dictator.
Wait for a DNC/WHO/NATO CONFERENCE & round them up, death on scene.
That’s the only way to treat pure evil, with evil!
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:19 pm to GumboPot
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In order for the CIA to operate in Ukraine, Joe Biden had to sign a “presidential finding memo”
The CIA doesn't answer to the president or anyone else in the US gov't. Well they do but only on paper and not in reality. The CIA is the shadow gov't. Kennedy in the last speech he ever gave, he said he was going to end them and well they ended him first.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:44 pm to GumboPot
Seeing a bunch of reaction to the NYT piece. Matt Taibbi went nuts over it.
LINK
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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 arse-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, but 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.
They risked our lives and our children’s lives, knowingly, repeatedly, and for the worst possible reason: politics. Afraid to admit a mistake, they planned individual excuses while letting bureaucratic inertia expand the conflict. Worse, as was guessed at on this site late last year, the Biden administration after last November’s election increased the risk of global conflict by “expanding the ops box to allow ATACMS and British Storm Shadow strikes into Russia,” in order to “shore up his Ukraine project.” If you check this “secret history” against contemporaneous statements of American and European leaders, you’ll find the scale of the lies beyond comprehension. Heads need to roll for this:
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From the outside it certainly appeared that U.S. officials, at a time when their lame-duck president was wandering into foliage in Brazil, were upping the ante in Ukraine as a way of rendering rapprochement impossible before the new government took office. No other explanation made sense. On the other hand, heightening global nuclear risk just to guarantee continuation of a doomed policy seemed impossibly cynical, even for whoever was running the White House by then.
Now we find out from inside sources this was done precisely to prolong the “Ukraine project.” There are a hundred details in this “Secret History” that serve as stark warnings to anyone who thinks protection from Armageddon is secure in the hands of career military and intelligence officials. Not only did we allow ourselves to be “blackmailed” into escalating a conflict with a nuclear power, the management of the “partnership” broke down because of a Heathers-style spat between the key brass twits, Ukrainian general Valery Zaluhniy and Mark Milley.
When Milley second-guessed Zaluhniy, the latter would respond with teen-like silence, or by ghosting Milley’s next call. Underscoring: the country to which we were giving hundreds of billions in aid didn’t feel a need to pick up the phone. Entous describes the general lack of communication via a moment of levity: “Biden administration officials would joke bitterly that they knew more about what the Russians were planning by spying on them than about what their Ukrainian partners were planning.”
The solution to the Miller-Zaluhniy feud, no joke, involved a blimp maker:
To keep them talking, the Pentagon initiated an elaborate telephone tree: A Milley aide would call Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, commander of the California National Guard, who would ring a wealthy Los Angeles blimp maker named Igor Pasternak, who had grown up in Lviv with Oleksii Reznikov, then Ukraine’s defense minister. Mr. Reznikov would track down General Zaluzhny and tell him, according to General Baldwin, “I know you’re mad at Milley, but you have to call him.”
LINK
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:47 pm to Bunk Moreland
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NYT article admits that this was more than proxy war between the US and Russia. It was as close as could be to an all out hot war between the two sides (US and Russia).
NYT however is running cover for the Biden administration. When you read through this very long article, the conclusion is that the Biden administration and US military command were easily defeating Russia until...
1) The Ukraine Generals started acting up and disobeyed US orders.
2) Zelensky chased "big wins" for PR reasons, failing to follow US strategy.
3) Resulting in the 2023 counteroffensive 'failure.' Trust was broken between US and Ukraine.
4) What followed was the US keeping Ukraine in the game up to the US elections, by striking targets in Crimea and pre-2014 Russia.
5) Trump entered the WH and decided to wind the war down, handing Russia the win.
"History Is Written by the Victors."
In this case the NYT has decided that the US (under Biden) was victorious, IF not for the insubordinate Ukrainian Generals and ego of Zelensky. Trump will be blamed for the end result capitulation.
??The article 100% explains why NATO and the Europeans still believe that they can win this war. Peak delusion and propaganda.
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:47 pm to Bunk Moreland
It’s really simple
Donnie 9 inch flies to Ukraine unnanouced
Fires every CIA person there
Flies home
It seems pretty simple
Donnie 9 inch flies to Ukraine unnanouced
Fires every CIA person there
Flies home
It seems pretty simple
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:49 pm to GumboPot
Y’all forget.
Trump has 3.5 years left before he disappears forever.
The CIA has been here well before him, and will be here long after.
Just pointing out facts.
Trump has 3.5 years left before he disappears forever.
The CIA has been here well before him, and will be here long after.
Just pointing out facts.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:50 pm to Bunk Moreland
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New York Times Fantasy Tale of Ukraine’s Almost Great Victory Over Russia
Adam Entous of the New York Times just published a lengthy article that pretends to tell the true history of the war in Ukraine. I can summarize the massive story in one sentence — Ukraine would have destroyed the weak, incompetent Russians if only the Ukrainian generals had followed the guidance from the US military. If you’re looking for a signal that the war in Ukraine is on its last legs, this article is it. This is a ridiculous attempt to burnish the image of the Pentagon and US European Command as strategic and tactical geniuses who could have beaten the Russians if only those damn Ukrainians had followed their advice.
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Entous appears to have another objective in mind with his article — blame Trump.
Today that order — along with Ukraine’s defense of its land — teeters on a knife edge, as President Trump seeks rapprochement with Mr. Putin and vows to bring the war to a close. . . . Now, with negotiations beginning, the American president has baselessly blamed the Ukrainians for starting the war, pressured them to forfeit much of their mineral wealth and asked the Ukrainians to agree to a cease-fire without a promise of concrete American security guarantees — a peace with no certainty of continued peace.
Entous also makes sure to give the United States credit for any and all successes, whether real or not, while blaming Generals Zaluzhnyi and Syrsky for the failures. “Ain’t our fault the Ukrainians fricked this up,” is the implied lament that permeates the article. We, the US, were the backbone don’t cha know:
But a New York Times investigation reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood. At critical moments, the partnership was the backbone of Ukrainian military operations that, by U.S. counts, have killed or wounded more than 700,000 Russian soldiers. (Ukraine has put its casualty toll at 435,000.) Side by side in Wiesbaden’s mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kyiv’s counteroffensives. A vast American intelligence-collection effort both guided big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field.
LINK
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:53 pm to bamadontcare
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Donnie 9 inch flies to Ukraine unnanouced
Fires every CIA person there
Why couldn't he fire them from here?
What's he gonna do? Order them to line up at the airport so he can ID them and fire them?
According to your thesis he doesn't even know who they are
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:53 pm to Bunk Moreland
Is rooting against the CIA rooting against America?
Posted on 3/31/25 at 9:21 pm to GumboPot
No president has ever had any real control of the fricking CIA, watch the good shepherd movie sometimes. Their inner circle is fricking skull n bones connected.
The last president that tried to reel them in was Kennedy, and look what happened to him.
The last president that tried to reel them in was Kennedy, and look what happened to him.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 9:22 pm to 5WFSHR
correction "rooting FOR the cia"...
Posted on 3/31/25 at 9:40 pm to bamadontcare
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Donnie 9 inch flies to Ukraine unnanouced
Not a chance. Air Force One would be shot down by the "Russians" before it ever got to Kyiv.
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