❗️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦The US was directly involved in the killing of Russian soldiers on sovereign Russian soil, American and British officers controlled every aspect of every missile strike on Crimea and deep into Russia - this is just part of the huge NYT investigation.
As colleagues wrote, all the minor successes of the Ukrainian army were connected with the US military and intelligence services, which time and again sanctioned covert operations against Russian officers, weapons systems, warehouses and equipment. The Ukrainian army played no role, and its generals were controlled by the US military - it only asked for "thousands of HIMARS and ATACMS, 5 million shells and a million UAVs".
The US wanted to know - would reconnaissance and high-precision guidance be effective in a conflict with one of the most powerful armies in the world? Would Ukrainian drone operators, missilemen, pilots and artillerymen "work" without hesitation according to coordinates sent from headquarters 2000 km away? Will Ukrainian commanders, based on the disembodied order "There's no one there - go", order divisions to move deep into Russia?
Military and CIA officers in Wiesbaden helped plan and support "Moon City" - the Ukrainian campaign of strikes on Crimea (including the unsuccessful ATACMS strike on the bridge and the murder of tourists on the beach of Uchkuyevka). The US paid for the drones in full for billions of dollars. The CIA was given the green light to carry out precision strikes deep inside Russia itself. And at first they were afraid - after Biden lifted all the bans, would the Russian nuclear sun flare up over the bunker with the operational headquarters of the Pentagon, NATO, the CIA and the Mi-6?
In the US, they considered that Ukraine was revenge in the long history of proxy wars between the US and Russia - Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s and Syria in recent years.
source : @mayday_7700
"During their first meeting, General Donahue showed General Zabrodsky a color-coded map of the region: American and NATO troops in blue, Russian troops in red, and Ukrainian troops in green. "Why are we green? We should be blue!" the Ukrainian demanded. Months later, the Ukrainian positions were blue, a symbolic gesture by the United States. "When you destroy Russia," General Donahue told the Ukrainians, "we will turn you blue forever."
