William Arkin: CIA Is Playing "Outsize Role" in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forces
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- A new investigation reveals the extent of the CIA's involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We're joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has "got its hand in a little bit of everything" in Ukraine. According to various sources, the CIA is shuttling weapons into Ukraine using a "gray fleet" of commercial aircraft that crisscrosses Central and Eastern Europe, sending personnel into Ukraine on secret missions and assisting Ukrainians with new weapons and systems, all while using Poland as its clandestine hub to coordinate its operations inside the country. At the same time, the U.S.'s nonaligned status appears to place a limit on its intelligence, keeping it in the dark on both Zelensky and Putin's next moves.
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So Ukraine bombed Nordstream and the US didn't know... Lol okay 😂
there is definitely a certain naivety in his takes, and it seems its there intentionally
@@srambreroeveryone and his granny knows that Ukraine did not have the capability to bomb Nord Stream. The US had the most to gain and the capability!
@@traderboi2662 The average depth of the Baltic Sea is just under 200 ft. Anyone with basic explosive and diving skills could have done it.
@@johnbailey3351 of course. Sure! 😂
@@johnbailey3351 try going yourself scuba-diving to that depth with the amount of explosives needed, then come back to let us know how it went.
Is he joking? CIA didn't know what Ukraine is doing?
Ja is loco
more like lying
Wouldn't be the first time the CIA "didn't know." I'm sure they "didn't know" their Nicaraguan assets were smuggling cocaine into the US.
Ormai la stampa occidentale non sa più come denigrare Putin e il popolo RUSSO... I plutocrati euroamericani colonizzatori da insediamento (evangelici sionisti) piangono per il loro grano ucraino........chi paga le spese per le armi in Ucraina??? Chi paga il vettovagliamento ( cibo????) Per i soldati ucraini? I soliti che si arricchiscono sulle guerre???? Da secoli????l
CIA is in Ukraine! Unfortunately!!🥵🤬
This guy is a CIA cutout. His spin is classic.
Exactly. Limited hangout.
It is garbage that the CIA doesn’t know what Ukraine is up to. This is only a narrative now because the CIA doesn’t want to have any culpability in the truly astounding array of war crimes and atrocities that Zelenskyy‘s “government” has promulgated. The crimes are coming out, and once they start to flow freely it will be hard for the CIA to deny any involvement.
100%
EXACTLY. Truly obvious. And Democracy Now plays nicely with him.
What's sad is that people can't figure out that Demacracy Now is also a cutout.
Did Victoria Nuland send you this guy? 🤣
A security state cannot also be a democracy. The two things are mutually exclusive. A corporate fascist state, on the other hand, is highly compatible with the security state with each part deriving mutual benefit from the other and gaining power via the association.
This "gentleman" is a spectaculalry dishonest singer for his supper. ... As if Ukrainians had any say in the US-arranged mass slaughter intended to hurt Russia. William Arkin is a perfect loudspeaker for the genocider Nuland-Kagan. The same tribe. The same lack of dignity.
Good thing we aren't a democracy, but a constitutional republic.
And how do you describe The Russian Federation?
We are a democratic constitutional republic, a type of democracy. If America isn't a democracy, name just three countries in the world today that are democracies but America is not. I'll wait. @@therealnynetynyne360
@@therealnynetynyne360those arent incompatible. you can be both simultaneously. but yeah u are not a democracy.
The US has been doing this kind of thing All over the world since they came into existence
That the CIA is deeply involved in the Ukraine war is a given. However, that it operates black sites for torture (in Poland) is shocking. It is a sad commentary of Americans' lack of conscience and sense of responsibility that the perpetrators have not been not called to account for such inhumanity and outrages.
US never had to get involved in WW1, which led to WW2, the US was preoccupied with ending the monarchies so that a much more malleable system could be put in place.
Mostly since Spanish American War. Big increase in Cold War and now with the National Endowment for Democracy. Need to listen to George Washington and Smedley Butler again.
@@katong1953America will lose this war on American soil
Cry more, sissy.
We see why Democracy Now has lost so much credibility!
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
I've been following DN for several years and unfortunately I agree with you.
Their coverage on the Covid 19 debacle was staggeringly one sided.
Alas sadly,their covering of the Ukraine Russia conflict is the same.
Five Times August gave a far more realistic view.
They have none. They shill for the govt and big business. That is all.
When DN! reports on bad humanitarian conditions somewhere, you can bet there is another "humanitarian intervention" being teed up in that very same region.
Not really, it is americans and their extreme rusophobia that has increased, to a point where anyone showing the other side and a different point of view is not taken seriously. You have gone full warmongers, again.
Ukraine behind the NordStream bombing 😅. It was the US. 9:16
Correction sir... The United States is at war with Russia. Just not conventional or direct.
Not yet, it's just a matter of time getting involved fully!
The US has been at war with Russia since 1945.
CIA is not only about “collecting intelligence,” that was the original mission of the agency. It turned into an operations organization, with its own quasi military.
And lets not talk about money laundry, are link to narco trafic, withe trafic and arm trafic.
DO vs DI --CIA is organized into two directorates
Follow the money.
@@patriciawestcot2017
always the truth however you try to spin it...
all roads lead to Rome...Georgia
@@mariojanaf5474 Thanks for the reply but I don't understand?
Edited by the CIA
Newsweek is a propaganda arm of the CIA. This guy spent months investigating the CIA in Ukraine and said nothing not already reported.
😂😂😂the CIA didn't know about nord stream what are you smoking
What a wonderful fluff piece for the Security state & the Gov admin lol
How would a reporter know exactly what a spy agency is doing? 😄 What a waste of my time.
Something called counterintelligence, also individuals talk spy or not:)
The last time the us prop up a leader it didn't end well for him after fighting a war against its, neighbour his country was smashed people killed and displaced he himself was trialled and killed by the same people who propped him up, you all know who that was in case some don't , remember sadam
If they are as incompetent as the CIA in Afghanistan, then I feel very bad for Ukraine.
Don't. Ukraine is just another puppet state for the US to control
Cia has immense experience in this area. Ant a lot of tech is used and also is supplied by cia to Ukraine easily tapped
It's pretty hard to help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. At least Ukraine wants to help itself.
Ukraine is the next syria, iraq etc
@@karevartem How do you spell "False Equivalency?"
Its unbelievable - he thinks we'll believe Ukraine.did both Nordstream and the Kerch bridge all by themselves? Is he sheilding the MI6' role in both incidents? UK and US are strong allies since WWII. Both with imperial goals.
WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT NS2 AND CRIMEAN BRIDGE MORE THAN ABOUT UKRAINE?!
Dude is an intel cutout.
What's sad is that people can't figure out that Democracy Now is also a cutout.
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
So what exactly is your point, Joy? Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine has every right to defend itself, with the help of allies by ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
@@teddy.d174 You've been brainwashed by one side. It's time to give the otherside some research!
Free Julian Assange!!!
+ Edward Snowden & all the others who've been locked up for victimless crimes
vote for Vavek
11:18 - has this guy ever heard of this little thing called Africa? Multiple African countries teamed together and tried to do it, it's "surprising" that he ignores this fact. Basically gives a pro-CIA point of view on everything, including their cover-up of Nord Stream.
Less than 48hrs after maidan ,the CIA took over the 3rd floor of the SBU,s security building !!!
Pssst! some people might get the gist........
Good!
Citizens should not have to decipher the words used by spokespeople. Propaganda is in full-go mode. The US won't send forces. But NATO, CIA, private 'volunteers', private industry that includes Americans that were trained in the USA military
yet, Biden called up thousands of reservists?
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
Make no mistake the US and Nato are at war with Russia except when they claim otherwise. Actions speak louder than words
@@nadiasmith226 The NY Slimes, as other Corpativist fake new media, are merely an intelligence front!
For death and profit.
The military industry is the biggest institution and profitable industry for the US corporations.
Naw. Cia would never violate laws.😡😡😡😡😡😡😡👯
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All Karens know this ! Lots of Karens ...
CIA Writes the Law. CIA is the LAW. Thus the problem. For some reason we still pay their Salary, yet they will NEVER listen. Only about themselves, a defined example of TYRANNY.
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
The CIA always enriches itseelf running parallel wars within wars, or the monetaziation of companies into stock holdings.
Drugs and children. Whatever they can traffic.
@@GCNavigator Always!
Don't forget running drugs for profit.
And they have secret rituals where they eat babies
Defense secretary Lloyd Austin said he 'wants to see Russia weakened' and that is the core value of war in ukraine!!!!!
As the US becomes weaker and weaker as a legitimate Republic. The war machine won't save us. It'll ensure that we keep sliding towards despotism.
Given what Russia is today, that's not a bad goal, or 'core value' as you perversely prefer to call it.
@@laika3916 Absolutely!
Great idea!! Who wants to see a mafia-like medieval State like Russia capable of harming others!! Hell with this filth called Russia.
In reality not a single person in the world has done more to weaken Ruzzia than Putin himself. He excels at that. With its resources and education, Ruzzia could be a world economical/technological power, but it has consistently chosen not to for 30 years.
Lol. This report is really revealing of how the US operates
A very Frank interview. But the holes in the story were so glaring that had me LOLing. And as I go through other comments, I know, am not an outlier 😂😂😂😂
@ayoorchethan. If you can't even point to a single hole, don't waste everbody's time laughing about holes. And spare the emojis.
@@katong1953don’t worry I got this, the speaker wittingly or unwittingly giving a false narrative of the cia role in Ukraine
This channel is anti Ukraine and pro Russia. Typical amateur propaganda.
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
@@katong1953 What’s wrong with 😂😂😂?!?
Does this guy get paid to extol the virtues of the CIA or does he do it for free? He sounds like their PR guy.
Rather that than the other guy who was chomping at the bit with the 'neo-Nazi Ukraine needed a bit of a kicking' thing.
Criticizing CIA is a crime, one of my contacts was interrogated by DHS because of his anti-CIA sentiment posted on social media, and another one has got his citizenship revoked and had no choice but to go back into his own country.
Arkin talks like the US is confused about its position and goals. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya...mission accomplished in all those places.
What accomplishment is that - invading Muslim lands, murdering , maiming, torturing, raping millions and stealing their wealth, resources. Still ended up running away from the Taliban. Now the USA are not up against weak Muslim countries but a well armed superpower. It will not end well.
Mission accomplish🤔😏🙄😑
And DN! Also pretends woth him.
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
Well, if the mission was to create a mess, you're right! 😝
Burns ‘superior knowledge’ of Russia appears to not have included a true understanding of their military power.
pure MSM misdirection, NOT an "intelligence agency"😅
There r bad reason y our country is held accountable for stupidity, it is usually on account of vested interests
leading into wars, misdeeds, , nature of the beast, a system where interests can hide accountability, to control this machine, is now beyond power of people and presidents, ceos r powerless, silence or
gone, I ain’t against interests, investment, but the way things r, cost has been too high, made too many enemies,
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So this is the definition of US democracy: Covert moves and clantestine assistance, etc.
Newsflash, that’s the majority of democracies…also the US is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
@@teddy.d174well that doesn't help. My question to everyone is, What is Democracy?
Picking one horrible corporate candidate over the female horrible corporate candidate? Or ballot initiatives, referendums and law making through public voting? Or something else?
If 95% of voters vote for democrats and Republicans, then this is what they want and get.
@@teddy.d174 Exactly!!!
@@SubvertTheState A democracy is the rule state by the rabble mob, by those who further devolve and control that rabble which is an oligarchy!
Liz Truss did msg Blinken "It's done!" as soon as the NS was bombed! Everyone heard that.
Yeah uk have helped blowing the pipeline
Liz truss too an evil person 🤬
Wise Lettuce !
@@lucyyl.5454 Why is Liz Truss evil?
@@teddy.d174 she helped to blow up the nordstream pipeline, most people consider the blowing up the pipeline an act of terror
The U.S. has stopped the peace deals many times. Too much invested in the MIC and geopolitics.
Could it be his source in CIA told him exactly what the CIA wanted us to belive.😂
Wonder how much of what he said he actually believes?
nice PR job.
What was the CIA role in 2014,,coup?
CIA have been very active in Ukraine since the 40s, US Army shielded and work with Stepan Bandera - "Operation ANYFACE"
Since then US have many operations to revive Ukrainian nationalism and to work with nationalist - like "Operation AERODYNAMIC" in the 60s.
Don't doubt CIA work in organisation/intel efforts in 2014. There were also US 'Blackwater' mercenaries on the terrain than, too juicy interests obviously.
CIA and Nato has lost alot of people in Ukraine now, but obviously it's very quiet
"We have no treaty and obligations with Ukraine" Literally, Budapest memorandum
And then Russia invaded Ukraine.
@@laika3916 Did you watch the video/ read the article? Who allowed, facilitated and made the agreement on the rules of the invasion that W. Burns calls "special operation"? Biden admin. Ribbentrop-Molotov style.
He's talking about CIA blind spots. He forgets to mention the CIA involvement in the Maiden coup, the overthrow of a democratically elected government.
Nobody on Washington pay list would tell you the truth.
11:46 The expansion of NATO was definitely provocative, the failure to follow the Minsk agreement was provocative, the buildup of the Ukrainian military to NATO standards was provocative, and the attacks on Russians living in eastern Ukraine was provocative.
American officials calling for the removal of Putin and the destruction of Russia was also provocative.
Scuttling a potential peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2022 was also provocative.
American and English officials wanted a proxy war with Russia and were using Ukraine to fight it.
FACTS.
Russia is hardly a passive actor here. They have meddled deeply in Ukrainian politics, only intervening militarily after the Euromaiden. No kidding the the US is not an altruistic actor here.
So are you a laid Russian troll or just a useful idiot ? Because you sure are pairing off a bunch of incorrect drivek that are exact Russian propaganda talking points ? This ir you've been consuming propaganda and places narratives and article online. Either way please do real research. Don't just repeat things you've heard.
A wishy, washy explanation from a so-called expert who seems to know less about this war and its history and reasons than I do, In particular, Russia's "invasion" was not only justified but exactly what Biden, America and the CIA had worked and hoped for since 2014 or even earlier. Putin's intentions are all crystal clear. He has stated them often enough and thus far kept his word.
This guy is funny. Americans that don't understand propaganda will be very confused by this airing.
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
DNow! is co-opted.
I'm trying to figure out what was the point of even having this guy on the show 😏 I would think that the US would have somebody over there watching what's going on can you blame them they're spending billions and billions of dollars 🤷🏽♂️
What a coincidence that William Burns was appointed head of the firm. Anticipation on what was coming? A bit strange isn't when the conflict was unprovoked.
A truly upright, moral, organisation.
is Newsweek a good source?
My question would be is how deep does the CIA’s claws reach into Newsweek…. I could have sworn I saw Director Burns hand run up this guys back to move his mouth.
Bingo!
You mean he’s talking through his proverbial a***?
Completely
Ukraine was and independent and neutral state for 23 years and nobody challenged this status. Then their president was dismissed by force with NATO support and a new government decided to join NATO and kick off Russian naval base in Crimea ( the only base they have in Black sea). That's when the war had started. And this is the reason for it.
wow
The country had an election in 2014, pro-western parties won because the previous guy turned out to be a corrupt Putin's puppet
Its obvious US overthrew Ukraine in 2014.. thats their MO... Russia outplayed them in Crimea and now US wants revenge.. oh and cause of Syria too.. Russia saved Syria from becoming another Libya.
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Democracy in Ukraine? When do you close 17 parties that disagree with this clown in power? There is no democracy in Ukraine. When they grab people on the street, then they process them psychologically, after 1 month they say to go to a village that is occupied by Ukrainians. And in fact, the village is captured by the Russians, Ukrainians go and fall into a trap and die. That's how the Ukrainian commanders themselves send Ukrainians to slaughter.
How's your war going Ivan? If Imperialism didn't last for the British what makes you think it would last for the Russians? Also various Ukrainian politicians have wanted to get closer to non-Russian controlled parts of Europe for years. And Russia has been involved with trying influence and then quash Ukrainian decision making for years. Plus if Russia wants a navy base on the Black Sea how about it put 1 on Russian coastline rather than not Russian?
Sounds like a load of B/S most of that. Trying to exonerate America’s roll in all this mess.
Blah blah blah.....lazy BS comments......yawning .....
NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders doesn't justify Russia's actions? What would USA do if Russia started to set up military bases near USA's borders? Or if Russia, China, and Iran formed a military alliance and set up their military bases near USA's borders while claiming that the alliance is of defensive nature?
Bingo!
The Soviets already formed a military alliance with Cuba during the Cold War and the US did not send its military to invade (that is part of why some supporters of Cuban expats feel Bay of Pigs was a failure). Anyway the talk of NATO expanding routinely forgets to mention that nations asked to join NATO. And this was likely out of fear of Russian bullying in the area-fears that seem to be well founded.
@@pplr1 It's the U.S. Aegis nuke-delivering missiles in Poland and other NATO countries surrounding Russia that imperils Russia's security. It was NOT the military alliance itself that triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was the U.S. placement of nukes on Russia's border in Turkey that prompted Russia to place nukes in Cuba that created the crisis. When JFK promised Russia to remove the nukes from Turkey, Russia removed the nukes from Cuba, ending the crisis. Zelensky SAID he was going to get nukes. That was one of the events that prompted Russia's intervention. The other was the clear peril to Ukrainian ethnic Russians in the Donbass from the U.S./NATO/Kiev military.
@@maryhuckaby2239 Did a quick look up on "Aegis" missiles including setup for Poland. I came across discussions of missile "interceptors" and missile "defense". Thus making it harder for missiles to be shot at Polish cities. Putin has a great deal of explaining to do if his argument is that Russian security needs the ability to shoot missiles into Polish cities.
"Zelensky SAID he was going to get nukes. That was one of the events that prompted Russia's intervention." Considering that Ukraine had nukes years ago and gave them up in exchange for security guarantees from the USA and Russia this claims smacks of bs on its face. Now Ukrainians have said that Russian violations of that agreement such as Putin's earlier invasion of Crimea in 2014 put the requirement that Ukraine should continue to honor the agreement in doubt-but Ukraine has not started to build a nuclear weapons program. Like many things Putin claimed near the start of this war, that is another lie.
"The other was the clear peril to Ukrainian ethnic Russians in the Donbass from the U.S./NATO/Kiev military." Speaking of Putin's lies this sounds like another one. Putin has been falsely claiming genocide was happening against Russian speakers for some time now. Not only has Russia provided little to no evidence for these claims (because they are lies) but Ukrainian President Zelenski is a Russian speaker as his 1st language.
Technically, he said "U.S. forces won't be sent to battle Russian troops".
That statement is crafted to leave the key points up to interpretation and allow the administration to define "U.S. forces", "battle" and "Russian troops" as they need to day by day.
The U.S. has been at de facto war with Russia for a few years.
February 6, 2022
American mercenaries are behind the attack on Donetsk.
American mercenaries who arrived in Donbas a few months ago are behind the attack on Donetsk the previous afternoon. This is evidenced by the fact that NATO-standard weapons were used during the shelling, moreover, at least two groups of American mercenaries were previously seen in the suburbs of Donetsk, which are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is known that American mercenaries are taking part in the fighting in the Donbass. At the same time, given that the city was shelled the previous morning using NATO-standard weapons, it is more than likely that members of a private military company from the United States are also behind the attack.
According to official data, as a result of a two-hour shelling of Donetsk, there is significant destruction in the Kievsky district of the city. In particular, it is reported about the destruction of warehouses and garages. There is unofficial information about the victims, but this has not received any documentary evidence.
Experts note that if information about the attack by American mercenaries on Donetsk is confirmed, Russia may send military assistance to the self-proclaimed republics, since Kiev's current actions violate the terms of the Minsk agreements.
15 February 2022
The US is participating in the war on Donbass.
. Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the south of the DPR immediately after reconnaissance of an American aircraft . The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the south of the DPR immediately after the reconnaissance of the American side.
The American military reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135V was involved in the latest attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the south of the DPR. As it became known to the Aviapro news agency, the night before, fire was opened on a number of settlements in the DPR, where militia forces were moving, from various types of weapons, mainly from 120-mm mortars.
According to data obtained by the Aviapro news agency, during reconnaissance by an American military aircraft along the line of contact, close attention was paid to militia targets located near the line of contact. Later, the southern part of the DPR was subjected to heavy shelling and, as it turned out, additional DPR units could indeed be deployed in the village of Kominternovo, although this information did not receive any comments from representatives of the self-proclaimed republic. Experts note that the involvement of the American military aircraft in the attack is obvious, since the strikes were carried out only on certain areas of the line of contact and on settlements.
February 19, 2022
UKRAINIAN ARMY CONTINUES MASSIVE SHELLING OF DONETSK AND LUHANSK
~ The Ukrainian army continuously fires 120mm mortars at the settlements of Zaitseve and Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk region.
Thousands of shells were fired during the day, mainly at civilian infrastructure and residential areas in the districts of Gorlovka and Lugansk, currently under massive artillery fire by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Dozens have been reported only in the last hour.
A few hours ago, the car of the head of the People’s Militia of the DPR Denis Sinyakov was blown up by Ukrainian saboteurs in the center of Donetsk
At midnight on February 19, a critical element of the Luhansk People’s Republic infrastructure - the node of the Druzhba (Дружба) gas pipeline - exploded. The strong blast shook the whole of Lugansk.
Another explosion in Lugansk thundered in the Kamennobrodsky district. A gas station was blown up there.
A couple of hours before, two transformer substations in the Donetsk Republic were damaged by shelling. The Ukrainian army is deliberately destroying the infrastructure of Donetsk and Lugansk, thereby implementing the idea of the President of Ukraine of Zelensky’s “indomitable” nationality, that all residents of these regions who disagree with Ukrainian Government in Kiev should flee to Russia.
The President of Ukraine, Zelensky: “I think that if you live today in the territory of Donbass, temporarily occupied, and you think that: “Our cause is right, we are Russians, we are going to Russia, it’s a big mistake to stay in Donbass…” For the future of their children and grandchildren… it is already necessary to go and look for a place in Russia. It is right. Because there will be no civilization on this territory without Ukraine. Ukraine will grow upwards, Donbass in the occupied form will not grow anywhere. There will be no happiness for these people.”
At the same time, when there are massive shelling and terrorist attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, US President Biden during a press conference accused the DPR and the LPR of violating the ceasefire and said that there is no evidence that Ukraine is preparing an attack.
From June 2015-the inevitability of WWIII because Russia stopped US backed terrorists in Syria.
“As an aggressor nation, which believes self-righteously in its superiority and views its offensive actions as defensive, the United States is deeply unhappy about the fact that Russia is bombing CIA-trained terrorists. That it armed and trained terrorists to topple a sitting government is of course not examined as problematic or as worthy to reflect on.
How will the US respond to the loss of its hegemonic control over Syria?
Commentator magazine argues that the Pentagon is now preparing a response whose details of course remain secret. It proposes placing US air jets near by Russian jets with the hope of provoking the Russian jets to shoot them down in order to provoke an international incident and a third world war. It argues that today as in the course of the first world war, US and Russian interests are that divergent that a world war seems inevitable, while advocating for it even as it claims with supposed innocence that such a war may just be something that has to take place.
It is also possible that the US will seek to provide false intelligence on a given ISIS target at a particular area while the target happens to be a densely populated school or a hospital, in order to present Russia as a mass-killer of civilians (a position of moral superiority which it desperately seeks as they deflect attention from its own crimes).
Additional scenarios may be encouraging wahabi terrorism inside the Russian Federation, orchestrating terrorist attacks in Moscow, providing Syrian rebels with missiles to bring down military jets or giving a green light to Kiev to launch a full attack on Donbass.
The ideal incident would be one in which Russia is clearly presented as an aggressor in the US public opinion and as a situation in which an argument can be made that the US must attack Russia as a matter of self-defense.
Americans can be easily deceived into believing that Russia attacked US soldiers out of the blue and therefore Russia should take extra precautions to avoid into such traps.”
@@SuanLuang - Despite your devotion to a despot, Putin and the full truth are about as well acquainted as your statements here and the full truth; as in tenuously and with a good dose of Russophilic Anglophobia.
@@SuanLuange Russian propaganda that was a Russian false flag get with the program also you have no idea what a mercenary is do you "paramilitary" okay buddy keep believing unverified reports. Russia had been violating Minsk from the moment that signed it. "America participating" how exactly stop citing Russian sources as credible dude but great justification for Imperialism
Sputnik February 20 - Russia has no intention of military aggression against Ukraine
@@SuanLuangcool Russian story bro now read actual news
Newsweek stands with Ukraine and you can't expect objective opinion.
Mister William does not seem to know what is happening 😭
He love putin
Why would william speak if he didnt know what he is talking about? to me, it absolutey sounds like he knows what he is talking about
@@lucyyl.5454 he want to sell his book 😹 he lack accurate information 🤠
@@lucyyl.5454russian nazi lover 🤢
This jacka$$ has the CIA on speed dial. He’ll regurgitate anything that they feed him.
USA is highly involve in this war.
"Democracy Now" once again proves it's just for laughs.
The outcome depends on what ZELENSKY will settle for?!?!? Stop joking! Zelensky is a wholly owned subsidiary of the USA. Zelensky will settle for whatever he is TOLD to settle for. (And after that, he would have to retire to one of his overseas estates because the Ukrainian Right would also be done with him.)
Ukraine made sure Biden was properly taken care of (for "as long as it takes"). Zelensky will flee at the time he is told to and live a life of luxury, State Street, Vanguard, Black Rock see hundreds of billions for themselves after a defeat and settlement. So the way it will work is they will "fund" the rebuilding of Ukraine, but the bill will be paid for by the US taxpayers. I am pretty sure these companies are drooling like drunk sailors waiting to get their claws in. And the US taxpayers will pay the bill. Just like we have done so far in the war.
He is surprised by the CIA's involvement. He should probably read the The New York Times . Start with the Articles in the Times :August 16 2022,Sept 8,10 2022, November 14 2022 and June and July 2023 where they were proud to Toot CIA involvement.
There is not much to understand about Russia, for decades it has been saying no to NATO to the East, just as Kennedy almost went to war over the Russian missiles in Cuba.
Regarding the US and its endless wars and coups all over the world. What understanding is he talking about?
The All-American Bombardier
Here is a list* of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of the Second World War to 2020:
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Cambodia 1969-70
China 1945-46
Congo 1964
Cuba 1959-1961
El Salvador 1980s
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958 Laos 1964-73
Grenada 1983
Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-
Iran 1987
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986, 2011-
Nicaragua 1980s
Pakistan 2003, 2006- Palestine 2010
Panama 1989
Peru 1965
Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-
Sudan 1998
Syria 2014-
Vietnam 1961-73
Yemen 2002, 2009-
Yugoslavia 1999
To say that the USA is has nothing to do with it is like saying that Charles Manson is innocent 😇😂😂😂😂
Zelensky is worth more than a half billion dollars. I'm curious where he got that money from. 😆
A golden acting career.
The war propagandists come out heavily in the comment section whenever there is talk of a peaceful resolution. Think people you are being manipulated, as always when it comes to wars . Most of these comments are made by war bots not even real people.
This news is excellent. Defeating the Ukrainian Nazis Russia will humiliate the American CIA gangsters. Something similar happened in Vietnam.
In the end, this journalist farts through his mouth. He says that Russian intelligence does not know anything about what is happening in Ukraine as if the Russians were not blowing up huge stores of ammunition and weapons sent to that country by Europeans and Americans.
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Sounds like you should live there
So the Russian narrative is Ukrainians are are nazis , ruled by nazis AND UKRAINIANS ARE ALL KEEPING IT SECRET, A BIG SECRET? Only Russia knows the big secret that Ukrainians are really nazis and KEEPING IT A SECRET. AAAHAHAHHAHAAHA And Ukrainians overwhelming elected a JEW as their president just to deceive the world that they are not really nazis! And JEW Zelenski is "in on it.' He's just PRETENDING that he's not really a nazi!!! AAAHAHAHAHAHA But Russia knows the truth, so it must rub out Ukraine and take their land!! Also, the Americans are supposed to have a bio weapons lab in Ukraine where they are breeding killer mosquitos to attack Russia! AAHAHAHAAHAHAH And little Ukraine was secretly planning to attack big Russia! .... and stupid people believe this s*****
@@macawismputin puppet
I see Russian imperialism hasn't lost some of its cheerleaders. Funny how eager some are cheer for stopping Ukraine from having any more honest elections so a nation that does not have have honest elections (Russia) can try to rebuild its old empire.
What a surprise that democracy now is full off Tankie apologists.
As a European I blame US to have willingly provoked this war, an Russia would have lost a lot of credibility and also of souvereignity, when the would have let continue the 8 years of slaughtering the Russian ethie in (not only) Donbas - so their revanche was needed to stop US - just as US stopped missiles to be placed in Kuba.
Hope US dominance is broken asap and the world will be a better one - after 27 US wars since end of WW2!
America has a bad record they went into Iraq and took out there leader and did war crimes killed millions,
That why Russia needs a buffer zone between East and West
Can Russia trust America, just look at history we went into Vietnam war and lost lots of troops without any sense of purpose, we went into Korea and lost lots of troops without any sense of purpose, we went into Afghanistan and lost lots of troops without any sense of purpose, we went into Iraq and lost lots of troops without any sense of purpose, is it a good another reason for troops to give there life,
Seriously. Is this the best time for US to pressure Ukraine on the issue of corruption? Who came up with that idea?
Ukraine has been dealing with the issue of corruption that was inherited from Soviet times, even an idiot knows this!, This report is more or less calling the CIA stupid! He also says the US has no agreement with Ukraine...er it does, it's signed the Budapest memorandum!
perhaps this is the whole idea...
From an American point of view: Ukraine's victory is insignificant (it doesn't change anything in how the US country or people carry on), while the risks that are associated with Ukraine using Western support to beat the Russians are unacceptable.
That could explain why Western support falls short of just giving the Ukrainians our LATEST stuff and ENOUGH of it.
Then, this can easily explain Reznikov's resignation: Corruption was just an excuse! The real reason is the attacks by Ukraine on Russian soil.
USA wants their pound of flesh for these attacks, which benefit Ukraine and do not benefit the USA but RISK the USA very much!
And USA wants their pound of flesh without making it too public that "Ukraine just does what the USA says".
Let's see, now without Reznikov, if Ukraine continues to attack Russia - this will tell you if the above is correct or not!
@@todorkolev7565 and if the USA abandons Ukraine it will also be abandoning it's own credibility. Agreements it made with Ukraine for it to give up it's nuclear weapons are/were of utmost importance to the USA, throwing them under the bus now and the US standing in the world will be as good as Russia's or China's, untrustworthy!
It’s always the best time to investigate corruption, especially when it’s yours and my money. And not just Ukraine, let’s finally get our stolen money back from the pentagon.
This whole military conflict could have been avoided if there was a peace settlement between internal Russian separatist and the Ukraine government years ago.
In russia
There was a settlement - two of them, called the Minsk Accords - sighed by Ukraine but NEVER upheld.
@@annkristoff4303 Plus a near settlement in March 2022 negotiated in Turkey - a month after Russia's intervention; Russia pulled its troops back from Kiev to further the settlement - then Boris Johnson, taking orders from the Biden Neo-Cons, sabotaged it. Forbade it!
Who told you the domestic Polish population was at all enthusiastic? I point out this is where I think Democrazy NOW is often misleading.
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What, in hell, makes the described role "outsized"?! He basically says that they are doing what they are supposed to, but not enough?
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Democracy in Ukraine? When do you close 17 parties that disagree with this clown in power? There is no democracy in Ukraine. When they grab people on the street, then they process them psychologically, after 1 month they say to go to a village that is occupied by Ukrainians. And in fact, the village is captured by the Russians, Ukrainians go and fall into a trap and die. That's how the Ukrainian commanders themselves send Ukrainians to slaughter.
He is branding US being in fact a Putin's ally as an "outsized" role. It isn't.
@@Fightesst The US has allowed the use of cluster munitions! What does that have to do with me? The Pentagon allowed it. Now Russia will kill its enemies with cluster munitions.
Democracy Now needs to start introducing some younger commentator/coordinators. This observation from a transatlantic user.
The wall of CIA HQ in Langley with stars for fallen agents has gotten a lot more anonymous stars.
When you have a guest like him, you lose a lot of credibility.
WTH!, this guy ain't said nothing the average American doesn't already know....Anything to sell a book. lets all write a book :)
Nord stream pipeline and Crimea: My guess: Navy Seals, cutting edge tech!
😂 попробуйте , ваших котиков в пакетах домой отправят
as a reminder, cia had recruited stepan bandera in september 1945, financially supported and employed until 1959. after his death, CIA created Bandera myth thanks to Radio Free Europe and Radio Svoboda.
Interesting. Do you have any citation or RFE articles that suggest this?
@@kakistocracyusa the original source are classified documents CIA.
Please use Google or so.
Bandera, Stefan_ pdf gov CIA
There are a lot of secondary works about ukrainian nationalists for example Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe
Stepan Bandera The life and cult.
CIA didn’t even exist then….
Yup. They've been prepping for this proxy war since 1945 and were actually plotting against Russia during WW II itself, even as Russia was losing 27 million people fighting the N_is. The Kiev regime is desecrating the graves and memories of those brave Russians and has officially turned Bandera into a "national hero" (N_i collaborator Bandera was involved in the mass murder of 10,000 Jews and others). How can anybody wonder why the Russians would not put up with this horror arriving on their doorstep ONCE AGAIN?
CIA torturing?!
Just like it was doing in Iraq and Libya and Syria
Every day , EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, you find yourself in some quiet corner of an East Europe airstrip and you're fkd
@@ianmangham4570Eastern Europe was a favoured blacksite of the CIA during the Iraq war. Maybe that's why they're such good candidates for NATO membership.
It's a Nazi org that's what they do
@@altGoolamthose bio labs I heard are one of the main reason the west won’t try to come to peace
I believe his story was true. The CIA supported General Duong Van Mình in a coup against President NGO Dinh Điểm of Việt Nam back in Nov. 1963. President Kennedy (JKFK) was supporting Diem. Therefore 20 days before JFK was assassinated, Diem was killed. Little did they know that General Minh was a sleeper cell of Vietcong (Vietnamese communist). The whole thing came to light after the fall of Saigon 1975. Minh’s brother (Duong Van Nhut)’s force came in Saigon and accepted the South Vietnamese government’s unconventional surrender. The complexity of politics and military has many layers and dimensions. Very difficult to understand and control of the third-world-like countries.
Note that this "new and improved" united VietNam is a US client state, eager to open formerly US stateside factories and pay their non-union sweat-shop employees pennies on the dollar... The American taxpayer lost trillions to the MIC, but Wall Street financialists and globalism triumphed. Ain't capitalism grand?
Be well.
THANK GOD!
Wish they would do MORE to help Ukraine STOP Putler!!!
Slava Ukraine!
When you look up the investigation discussed in the video about the role of the CIA in Ukraine on Newsweek website no results come up related to that topic. Did they take it down?
As a British citizen the only time I've been proud off Britain was when they refused to join America in the Vietnam debacle unfortunately Australia didn't do the same.
He lost me when he said Ukraine blew up Nordstream.
God I do so hope Russia wins this Special Military Operation.
haha i liked hwo he put his spin on the gas lines, what a guy, his investigation we should take it as he said that's what i call maytag super washing machine, unfortunately we have to many idiots they will believe any thing
Seen a clown walking across the bridge in the city today wearing a blue face diaper and towing a small boy about a age of 8 or 9 also wearing a blue oppression diaper. What a sad sight, this is the crowd this Chief Editor is speaking to of course.
This is about, what America wants and insists upon , not about what Ukraine wants ! America Initiated this entire crisis for its OWN Geopolitical Imperialistic Needs of Dominance ! ☮️🇷🇺💲🇨🇳
This is nonsensical. Russia initiated the war.
Countries US has bombed since World War II
The conflict in Iran comes after decades of global interventions carried out by the States.
The US is said to have been involved in 32 distinct and separate bombing campaigns on 24 different countries between 1945 and 1999.
However, the listing below includes later operations as well, taking into account several Middle Eastern conflicts to demonstrate the scale of their overseas operations:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia - Serbia 1999
Afghanistan 2001
Libya 2011
Iraq and Syria 2014 -
Somalia 2011 -
Iran 2020 -
Iraq 2003-08?
@@elsonck2523 Also, Iraq under Bush Senior (1990-1991). And Yemen by proxy, until recently.
The fact that this bit about the CIA having outsized influence on Ukraine would be news to anyone is what is most sad.
Willaim Larkin, a suppporter of American exceptionalism and Russia bashing. Please, go on underestimating Russia, China and so on!
Sell, sell, sell more weapons! For “freedom” and “democracy”, whatever it takes, we are with Ukraine 🇺🇦 until the last standing old Ukrainian man or young boy child snatched from his mourning mother’s lap is alive!
That’s how much we love Ukraine 🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦❤️.
From America 🇺🇸 with love 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
3:15: False! What might come as a surprise to William Arkin is the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of which US is a signatory. And yes, there is a treaty associated with that: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Ukraine should have never given up their nukes.
@@blueberry-ri7eb Ironically, Ukraine may well get them back if it ends up a NATO member.
He is Kremlin puppet
@@deewells1965so might Cuba get their nukes back
@@deewells1965 It will never be a NATO member though.
It doesn’t appear that Zelenskyy is involved all that much. He spends most of his time traveling with his hand out or gladhanding it with a bunch of other politicians to come to visit and photo ops. He wears that drab olive green to give the appearance of inclusion.
He's doing what he needs to do to garner support for his country. Now go back to sleep, YOU.
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Is the sky blue?
Only when the sun shines on it
The clouds of war paint the sky an ominous grey.
Those aren't just strange clouds skies, but weapons of war. New Micro drone swarms.
Thanks to protectors of the Nazis of Ukraine- who gave us covid 19 and more!
Typical Limited hangout BS now that operation is inevitably failing.
"Outsize Role" huh? u mean like the Salesforce "tower" in Fr'isco?
For whatever the resaons a country might have to send its military forces near the territory of another country, it may be considered as nothing other than a potential aggressor and enemy.
What about defending their territorial borders ?
what if a group of countries, in a military alliance, adds your neighbouring nations to it's group?
what if a foreign government is directly involved in organising a political change in the government of your neighbour. ?
One question for everyone is "why would Ukraine want to piss off Germany by blowing up the gas pipeline?" They knew that Germany had all these weapons which were needed.
Mr Arkin is spewing bull crap and he knows it.
Because US companies and taxpayers are going to rebuild the country, not Germany.
CIA activities should be really exposed when one is interested the USA international Roles.
JFK tried and didn't end well .
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Western democracy forces eastern democracy to accept western democracy .
Don't underestimate Russians intelligence.....
No European citizens are "enthusiastic" about war.. however there is a serious lack of strong leadership resulting in these countries being railroaded into supporting this horror ..
Так и есть, вы абсолютно правы👍
Supporting? On the contrary, we are very much helping Ukrainians to stop the horror.
@@andrekoster9708
Europe still depends on the
US to hold their hand.
Their dependence on the US
to protect them is very apparent. What will it take for
Europe to protect itself?
@@Thomas-gz4ky Indeed. It will take political will and money for Europe to protect itself. Both are on the increase, but we're far from there, yet.