The Great Game

If you blinked, you might have missed it. Axios originally reported that Ukraine informed the United States in advance about Operation “Spider’s Web.” Axios cited a Ukrainian official. In a reversal, Axios wrote that the US was not informed about the drone attack that struck Russian air bases. It hit Russia’s nuclear-capable strategic bombers. It was a step closer to nuclear war. Was it possible Washington wasn’t informed?

Three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the New York Times published “The Secret History of the War in Ukraine.” A small circle of Americans, Ukrainians, and NATO officials organized at the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe and Africa in Wiesbaden, Germany, to plan Kyiv’s counteroffensives. One Biden administration official called it “the entire back office of the war.” The partnership in Wiesbaden, with the US military and CIA, “helped plan and support a campaign of Ukrainian strikes in Russian-annexed Crimea.” The “partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology would become the secret weapon [in the war].”

The Times previously admitted, “The C.I.A. and other American intelligence agencies provide intelligence [to Ukrainians] for targeted missile strikes [and] track Russian troop movements.” In Ukraine, over the past decade, the C.I.A. constructed a network of spy bases “that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border.”

In time, Biden crossed all his red lines. His administration authorized “Wiesbaden and the C.I.A. to support long-range missile and drone strikes into [Russia itself].” The United States was killing “Russian soldiers on sovereign Russian soil.” The Times admitted, “Ukraine was, on a wider canvas, a rematch in a long history of U.S.-Russia proxy wars.”

In his book “Unholy War”, John Cooley wrote about the U.S.-Russia proxy war in Afghanistan. Six months before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, “President Carter signed a presidential finding on covert action that began a modest program of propaganda and medical aid to [the mujahideen].” National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski bragged, “This secret operation… Its effect was to draw the Russians into the Afghan trap.” In 1979, “the CIA, with Saudi finance as well as Pakistani logistical support, managed the raising, training, equipping, paying and sending into battle against the Red Army… a mercenary army of [Islamic fundamentalists].” The CIA-organized, trained, and funded 100,000 mujahideen to fight the Soviets.

Today, Afghanistan is in a severe humanitarian crisis. The World Food Programme reported, “Nearly 20 million people are… acutely food insecure.” 3.2 million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished. Mercy Corps reported that Kabul was in a water crisis and “risks becoming the first modern capital to run dry.”

In 2019, the Washington Post published “The Afghanistan Papers.” For two decades, since the US invaded and occupied Afghanistan, “the American people have constantly been lied to.” There was an explicit and sustained effort “by the U.S. government to deliberately mislead the public.” It was the old tactic of “manipulating public opinion.”

Today, the US government lies to the public about another war: its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Anton Porcari

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