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 Show us that NYT link, Vladimir. 
 It is truly disgusting that you are accusing anyone of criticizing US foreign policy as automatically a “Putin puppet” to oppress knowledge.  You should remove the Bitcoin symbol from your profile, as the primary purpose of separating money and the state would be to starve the central banking from funding the exact thing you’re right now a cheerleader for.

NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

Zerohedge covering it:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt

My writing:

The corrupt Biden administration’s unwinnable war in Ukraine has bankrupted the nation. Even mainstream propaganda outlets such as The Guardian, Reuters, and the BBC reported on leaked audio of Barrack Obama’s head of Ukraine policy Victoria Nuland. [9a] This leaked phone call revealed that the US backed an illegal and violent coup of Ukraine’s Democratically elected leader. [9b] The Obama administration admitted the leaked audio was true, which demonstrated the US picked the supposedly democratically elected leaders that resulted from their planned uprising. [9c][6]

Funding Nazis

Barrack Obama funded violent Nazis to overthrow Ukraine’s government. [11a] The media tries to brainwash voters by calling it “Russian propaganda”, but the evidence is clear in an FBI indictment of Americans involved that’s posted on the New York Times website. [12b] To quote from journalist Max Blumenthal:

“… an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia” [12a]

My sources:

[9a] The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-diplomat-victoria-nuland-phonecall-leaked-video

[9b] Reuters

Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
By Doina Chiacu and Arshad Mohammed
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1601K/

[9c] BBC

Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[10] NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/world/europe/islamic-battalions-stocked-with-chechens-aid-ukraine-in-war-with-rebels.html

[11a] Scott Horton Podcast

11/27/18 Max Blumenthal on U.S.-Funded Neo-Nazism
by Scott | Nov 29, 2018 | Interviews
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-27-18-max-blumenthal-on-u-s-funded-neo-nazism/

[11b] Consortium News

Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists

[12a] FBI: Azov Battalion Trained Rise Above Movement

By Max Blumenthal

[12b] New York Times

FBI: Robert Rundo Complaint
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/421-robert-rundo-complaint/0f1e76cdeef814133f24/optimized/full.pdf

 
 You need to reread your own NYT article.  It literally says the US did not “fire into Russia,” as you allege.  It says that basss were used for intelligence.  It describes how  Ukrainian units took some actions against Russian forces in Russian occupied Ukraine. 
 Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov. The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military. There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the CIA.

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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. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.)
And the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence.

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Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.

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Also the violent coup from a few years earlier we wrote about, wanna comment on that? 
 You mean when Putin’s hand chosen corrupt puppet was thrown out by Ukrainian voters democratically? 
 Do you oppose TND?