The CIA in Ukraine - sure, Putin's invasion was unprovoked...

At the end of February, the New York Times published an article revealing how the CIA had been building spy bases and established a clear ops network in Ukraine over the past decade, ever since the USA helped overthrow the elected president in 2014 and installed the first of several puppet leaders.

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Excerpts:

• A CIA-supported network of spy bases has been constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border.
  

• Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.
  

• CIA officers remained at a remote location in western Ukraine when Russia invaded in February 2022. During the invasion, the officers relayed critical intelligence, including where Russia was planning strikes and which weapons systems they would use. “Without them, there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them,” said the head of Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency.

The article goes on to assert that it was the Ukraine that courted the US. Even if that were true, it still means Putin was provoked.