Stephen Kinzer

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The CIA was parachuting agents into Ukraine 73 YEARS before Russia invaded. And this isn't some conspiracy theory. It's in the CIA's own declassified records. In September 1949, American-backed Ukrainian operatives were dropped into Soviet territory to support the anti-Soviet underground. Most of these missions ended disastrously. Former NYT journalist Stephen Kinzer argues this was the beginning of a 75-year American strategy to use Ukraine against Moscow. He traces that strategy through NATO expansion and the 2014 Maidan uprising, arguing that Washington helped create the conditions for the 2022 invasion. Kinzer is clear that Russia was the aggressor. But he makes a much more controversial argument: A simple U.S. commitment to keep Ukraine OUT of NATO might have prevented the war entirely. That's debatable. The CIA operations in 1949 aren't. Source: @zerohedge, @stephenkinzer / Writer: Oliver