As the Trump Administration embarks on a campaign of domestic rendition to silence critics of Israel’s genocide it’s important to acknowledge that the Biden Administration and corporate media lied to us about the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Now that the dirty-little-proxy-war is going south the New York Times, regurgitates a massive expose, The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine, detailing the ongoing betrayal. Basically, the NYT just rewrote the entire Ukraine war story, admitting it was never Ukraine’s war at all. It was Biden’s. The article opens with an admission that the US was actively and heavily involved in equipping Ukraine with weapons, intelligence and plans to attack and kill Russians. Meanwhile, all of our elite political and corporate media lied about it for political reasons and after Harris’s loss in November, the Biden Administration, provided intelligence to Ukraine to allow them to lob ATTACMS and Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia, risking a widening of the conflict. Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia. While the author, Adam Entous, admits that Biden and his team repeatedly crossed lines they had previously refused to penetrate, he fails to explain that Russian successes on the battlefield were the primary reason for Biden’s desperate moves.

For those of us who’ve been paying attention, none of the expose is surprising, although there are numerous details that contribute to the history of the proxy war. Entous, reveals that we were lied to on a continuous basis from the very beginning of the conflict. From Joe Biden down, they all lied about it, even as the risk of a nuclear exchange grew. If you compare this expose to statements made by US leaders and corporate media at the time, you’ll find the lies to be staggering in their implications.

The biggest takeaway for me is the hubris exhibited by the military and CIA officers interviewed for the story. They really believed that NATO tactics and US wonder-weapons would send the Russian Army fleeing in terror. It’s like they never read about the battle of Borodino or studied the Russian defense of Stalingrad at their command schools.

What part about don’t fuck with Russia don’t they get?

Of course, the lies about Ukraine were proceeded by the lies about Russia-gate, galvanizing liberals into a Trump/Putin-derangement-syndrome frenzy . Everything you see is the product of years of anti-Russia propaganda. Hence the years-long obsession with Russian collusion. For liberals, a Democrat president can be as tyrannical and murderous as a Republican but because it’s their team they will ignore it and saunter off to brunch. Of course they don’t really disagree with the bi-partisan warmongering, the Democrats are just the polite, woke face of the bloodthirsty US empire, while the Republicans, and especially Trump, are the empire unmasked. 

You will not be surprised that the Times, with their expose, seeks to blame Trump for the forthcoming Ukrainian defeat. Entous writes: “As President Trump seeks rapprochement with Mr. Putin and vows to bring the war to a close. . . . Now, with negotiations beginning, the American president has baselessly blamed the Ukrainians for starting the war, pressured them to forfeit much of their mineral wealth and asked the Ukrainians to agree to a cease-fire without a promise of concrete American security guarantees — a peace with no certainty of continued peace.”

What’s funny is that our elite believed the lies too. Entous’s narrative reflects the beliefs of the Washington establishment. This wrongheaded thinking explains why Trump and his national security team are unable to hear and comprehend what the Russians are saying to them behind closed doors. When you enter negotiations armed with a mountain of false assumptions regarding Russia’s economic and military strength, then the odds that you can secure a meaningful peace deal are slim to none.

If Trump is foolish enough to ramp up military and intelligence support for Ukraine, especially in the wake of the Times article–where a host of US officials confirmed they have planned and helped execute attacks on Russian territory and Russian personnel, he will find himself taking ownership of the debacle. Trump needs a serious adult capable of sitting him down and explaining reality to him, i.e., the US has limited supplies of HIMARS, ATACMS, Patriot missiles and battle tanks. And our manufacturing base is in China.

Trump will not secure peace by threatening military action against Russia. Not if he wants to have his war with Iran and then China.

The whole thing is so crazy that it makes my teeth hurt, but there’s a method to the madness. From the Gulf of Tonkin with the ghost torpedo boats, to the invasion of Iraq with its non-existent weapons of mass destruction, to Russia’s “unprovoked” invasion, the corporate media engages in a continuous propaganda PSYOP, manufacturing consent for endless war.