America in Ukraine: Now it Can be Told
The New York Times recently did something entirely unexpected.
During 2024, and possibly earlier, the Times, usually a liberal mouthpiece/megaphone for Democrats, committed actual journalism and revealed its findings in a 12,751 word late-March article entitled “Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine.”
The piece is an extraordinarily interesting read, however, its timing is somewhat suspicious.
Based on the Times’ domestic political history, one need not be a cynic to doubt that the material would have seen the light of day, much less reached publication if a Democrat were still in the White House. Clearly, most if not all of the key findings were known before President(ish) Joe Biden left office. Nor would it be cynical to suspect that revealing them now is designed to create problems for the Trump administration.
The Times piece verified the suspicions of many that the Biden administration was actively flirting with World War III by directly engaging alongside Ukraine in that nation’s war with Russia, a nuclear power.
The record shows that, since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Congress passed five major bills aiding Ukraine that cumulatively amount to $175 billion.
However, we are now learning that a portion of that aid may have been committed to funding other U.S. government activities associated with the war.
The Times: “[F]or nearly three years before Mr. Trump’s return to power, the United States and Ukraine were joined in an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology whose evolution and inner workings have been known only to a small circle of American and allied officials.”
And: “The secret center of the partnership was at the U.S. Army garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany. Each morning, U.S. and Ukrainian military officers set targeting priorities – Russian units, pieces of equipment or infrastructure. American and coalition intelligence officers searched satellite imagery, radio emissions and intercepted communications to find Russian positions. Task Force Dragon then gave the Ukrainians the coordinates so they could shoot at them.”
Moreover, the Times revealed that the U.S. military was actively involved in targeting strikes well outside Ukraine’s immediate defensive area of the conflict.
In early 2024, the Biden administration began supplying Ukraine with long-range precision missiles capable of striking targets nearly 200 miles away, and in November, authorized Ukraine to use them to strike inside Russian territory.
In addition, the CIA, too, was active in Ukraine by planning targeted strikes into the heart of the Russian Federation.
Worse, the Times revealed that the Biden administration put boots on the ground in Ukraine: “Easing a prohibition against American boots on Ukrainian ground, Wiesbaden was allowed to put about a dozen military advisers in Kyiv. To avoid drawing public attention to their presence, the Pentagon initially called them ‘subject matter experts.’ Later the team was expanded, to about three dozen, and the military advisers were eventually allowed to travel to Ukrainian command posts closer to the fighting.”
Joe Biden’s recklessness in Ukraine risked potentially serious geopolitical consequences over a conflict in which the U.S. has little to no strategic interest. In fact, it isn’t our fight.
No NATO ally has been attacked, so the Russia/Ukraine conflict is strictly a European matter. In fact, the urging of certain European allies to admit Ukraine into NATO may have been a catalyst for the Russian invasion. Always paranoid, the Kremlin could easily have considered sharing a border with another NATO member as a security threat, and taking a portion or all of Ukraine as a buffer to be a smart move.
At home, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said publicly that the Biden administration has engaged the United States in a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine as an excuse. The Times has now confirmed Rubio’s allegation.
President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy breaks with the Biden administration and European allies. Ukraine has been unsuccessful in evicting Russian troops from its territory even with massive U.S. and European aid, so Trump is attempting to broker a practical peace in which both sides make concessions.
The president is clearly distancing America from the prior administration’s Ukraine policy and withdrawing the Biden-authorized human elements from the conflict on the ground.
Enough blood has been shed, enough lives lost in a war a small nation cannot win to risk American blood and more American treasure.
https://www.pottsmerc.com/2025/04/13/jerry-shenk-america-in-ukraine-now-the-truth-can-be-told/
