William Arkin: CIA Is Playing "Outsize Role" in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forces 

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!!🥵🤬

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Not yet, it's just a matter of time getting involved fully!

The US has been at war with Russia since 1945.

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.

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?"

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.

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!

Newsweek is a propaganda arm of the CIA. This guy spent months investigating the CIA in Ukraine and said nothing not already reported.

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.

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! 😝

Pssst! some people might get the gist........

Good!

Let your enemy underestimate you...

Russian Federation Intelligence, and their FSB have been well aware, and tutored on the nefarious goings on at the hands of an Oligarchical Collectivism, Russo-phobic Crime Syndicates, and Exploiters!

Well if that were true than how has Russia track down and blown up weopons warehouses in Ukraine Russian intelligence is very impressive and it has gotten better since the launch of the new Russian surveillance tracker satellite in earths atmosphere Do your research on Russia don’t just believe western media

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!

Something called counterintelligence, also individuals talk spy or not:)

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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.

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.

+ Edward Snowden & all the others who've been locked up for victimless crimes

vote for Vavek

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

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

Ok and kgb ???

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.

Even more true for Putin.

@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 😂😂😂?!?

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.

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, ,

It is highly likely Russia will keep the conflict going because no peace talks with Ukraine and NATO can be trusted, as we established recently

WELL war is BIG MONEY and we know how psychos LOVE THEIR MONEY! PUTIN and his buddies divided the riches! They don't want to give it back!

It seems like all fans of this show are goddamned morons. Makes sense, now that I think about it.

Minsk Agreements were Initiated and faked by USNAFO UKRONAZIS . ☮️

William Burns and the CIA have no reason to negotiate, it’s up to Ukraine to negotiate for their own nation.

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Driven to the arms of OTAN by a war criminal. That's how you get otherwise disinterested countries to join NATO in a NY minute.

We will do as we please. Russia is a weak nation. It does not make our decisions for us.

Dude is an intel cutout. What's sad is that people can't figure out that Demacracy Now is also a cutout.

​@@LetsEndHumanityoh, oh , oh 😂

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

Yes The CIA is involved in Each & Single coup! No question abt it!

They were involved 100% ,in the coup d'etat, sewed the seeds of nationalism and left it simmering for nearly nine years while the western alliance were invading and destroying SOVEREIGN NATION'S,in the middle East and Africa, Tony Blair and George Bush hailed as heroes in the easily brainwashed and hypocritical western community, the UN, EU etc leadership were silent when silent, but they found their voices during the tail between the legs retreat from Afghanistan, the western community were more concerned in evacuating western personal pet DOGS, than people whose lives were in danger because they worked for the western alliance, they were more concerned about dogs, but who would judge any of the western political elite with crimes against humanity in the haig, when the haig, the ICC etc, are all part of the gang of white Christian western aggressors, the equivalent would be Nazi war criminals being judged by ROLAND FRIESLER in the peoples court in Berlin during the 30s\40s.

The Americans will never coexist peacefully with both Russia and China. From 2018 The planning of WWIII. “A bipartisan commission appointed by Congress issued a lengthy report Tuesday backing the Pentagon’s plans to prepare for a “great-power” war against Russia, China, or both, making clear that the Trump administration’s belligerent policies are shared by the Democratic Party. Safe in the knowledge that its findings will never be seriously reported by the mass media, the authors of this report do not mince words about what such a war will mean. A war between the United States and China, which according to the report might break out within four years, will be “horrendous” and “devastating.” The military will “face greater losses than at any time in decades.” Such a war could lead to “rapid nuclear escalation,” and American civilians will be attacked and likely killed. It is impossible to understand anything in American politics without recognizing one fundamental reality: the events and scandals that dominate political discourse, which make it onto the evening news and into headlines on news sites and social media feeds, have precious little to do with the considerations of those who actually make decisions. The media talking heads play their assigned roles, knowing that the most important topics can be discussed only within very circumscribed limits. Those who actually make policy-a select group of high-ranking members of Congress, Pentagon officials, and think-tank staffers, as well as White House aides-speak an entirely different language among themselves, and in publications they know the general public will not read, and the media will not seriously report.

lol, the people chose not to be the next Belarus

Non cause there was no coup Nuland wanted to prevent what happened

A truly upright, moral, organisation.

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!

BS@@todorkolev7565

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.

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.

WRONG, Cia was NEVER involved in Ukraine 🤭

What about FSB involvement since 2003?

You’re sadly mistaken corrupted comrade @078249, the FSB set the war in motion.

@teddy.d174 How do you think Hrr Volodymyr Zelensky took power? We all know it wasn't the Ukrainians doing. That man was installed by the United States. The CIA does that. How do you think the Azov has been supplied all these years? Yep, that's the CIA. That's what they do, and Ukraine is paying a huge price being used against Russia. Smaller countries are used in this way all around the world. Hundreds of thousands have lost their lives for nothing. It's sad. If there was peace in the Donbas, none of this would have happened.

Blah blah blah.....lazy BS comments......yawning .....

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.

Bingo!

You mean he’s talking through his proverbial a***? Completely

Nobody on Washington pay list would tell you the truth.

а 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.

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.

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.

. 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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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. ?

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.

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.

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.

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!

JFK tried and didn't end well .

🙄😂

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.

A golden acting career.

Isn't Newsweek a totally discredited right wing and Mooney rag, now? Madness.

You think that the truth appears at any point in the interview?

This is nonsensical. Russia initiated the war.