Milley was running Ukraine war with Russia without telling the public
... While the U.S. public under the Biden administration was told, via Congress, that the U.S. was supplying arms to Ukraine, actually, the U.S. was pretty much running the whole show...
The U.S., during the time of Gen. Mark Milley, was pretty much calling the shots on all aspects of the war -- targets, intelligence, trainings, logistics...
They supplied coordinates to the Ukrainians on Russian targets from a base in Wiesbaden. They supplied mobile artillery units called HIMARS for satellite-guided rockets on Russian targets with American troops calling every shot. They put boots on the ground, and more boots on the ground, calling them "subject matter experts." They dispatched the U.S. Navy to share targeting information on Russian warships beyond Ukrainian waters...
Then mission creep came calling, and soon enough, the U.S. was handing out intelligence on Russian locations for military strikes.
The problem with this whole mission-creep approach in Ukraine is less that it happened... than that it amounted to an undeclared war that the public wasn't aware of. That's not good in a democracy.
Putin may or may not have been fooled, and I am going to guess that at a certain point he wasn't, but for sure, the U.S. public had no idea...
A simple agreement to not join NATO and perhaps a referendum on the eastern part of Ukraine as to which country they'd like to be part of might have saved a lot of lives and destruction.
That's Milley for you, though -- he got us into deep involvement in a war Joe Biden was unwilling to ask the public to go along with because he suspected the answer would be 'no,'...
Now President Trump is there to clean up the mess and try to bring peace to Ukraine and bring Putin back into the family of normal nations if possible...
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Convergence Calling, by James Howard Kunstler, Lew Rockwell, 1 April 2025:
The conclusion of “Joe Biden’s” Ukraine War fiasco looms. You can tell because The New York Times published a gigantic piece Sunday detailing how the Pentagon and the CIA actually ran all of Ukraine’s tactical operations out of a base in Wiesbaden, Germany — after building a colossal Ukraine war machine post our 2014 color revolution in Kiev. Since the very start of the hot war in 2022, we did all the targeting for the weapons we gave them and planned their every move...
The motive behind all that, as conceived by US neo-cons and NATO neo-morons, was to “weaken” Russia, bust it up, and seize its resources. All the sanctions piled on only induced Russia into an import-replacement campaign that actually strengthened its economy, while the war led to a revolution in Russian war-fighting tactics and advanced weaponry. Now, the whole thing is ending in Ukraine’s defeat and the West’s humiliation.
The Times could have published this in 2023-24, but it would have been a major embarrassment for “Joe Biden” and his shadow managers moving into the election...
Mr. Trump, the uber-realist, knows that the Russians are going to roll up in Ukraine this spring and there is increasingly not much that can be done about that... As long as the coke freak Zelensky remains in charge, Ukraine will be negotiation-unworthy, as the Russian phrase goes. So, US-Russia peace talks were largely diplomatic showbiz...
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