The New York Times published a lengthy article about U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine entitled, “The Secret History of the War in Ukraine This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.“
Does anyone seriously think that the U.S. involvement in the war was hidden or a secret or even more incredulously, untold? Perhaps to low information readers of the New York Times this is all new. But anyone who has followed The Duran with Alexander Mercouris, Bernard over at MoonofAlabama, Professor Mearsheimer, Col. Douglas MacGregor, Scott Ritter, or others over the last three years knows full well that U.S. involvement was central to the war in Ukraine.
Even President Putin has said on several occasions that the U.S. has to supply the targeting data needed to fire U.S. and British missiles. You can’t get more deeply involved than that.
He [Putin] claimed that, for missile launches into Russia, Ukraine would require data from Western satellites and that only servicemen from Nato member states would be able to “input flight missions into these missile systems”. — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrlr87e5elo
The article fails on many points. It fails to acknowledge the events that lead to the war:
1. NATO expansion to the east.
2. Failure of Ukraine to implement the Minsk I and II Accords.
3. Failure of the Biden administration to deal with Russia’s national security concerns.
4. U.S. involvement in overthrowing Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 and installing a government favorable to the U.S.
5. The U.S. and Britain blowing up the Istanbul Agreement in March 2022.
Instead, the article is a puff piece about the U.S. military and Biden administration. In short U.S. generals did everything right and Ukraine did mostly everything wrong and Russia, of course, did everything wrong. Biden was on the cusp of winning but the Ukrainians snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
The article makes it clear that the war was an attempt by the Biden administration to crush Russia economically, militarily, and (unstated) to engage in regime change. In the end however, it was Biden who was regime changed.
Although the NYT claims to have interviewed 300 people for the article, no Russians were interviewed. In fact, the article details several defeats for the Americans who were running the war, but never acknowledges that Russia is winning the war.
As it turns out, the Russians are far more accomplished than the Americans and the New York Times are willing to admit. The Russians know when to retreat, when to advance, adapt, adjust their front lines. As Alexander Mercouris states, “The Russians always out general the Americans in the end.”