In the most damaging leak of classified documents since Edward Snowden leaked the government’s spying program Jan. 17, 2014, a recent leak of unknown origin detailed Top Secret files about U.S. involvement in the Ukraine War, including U.S. spy drones and ammunition used by Ukrainian troops. Pentagon officials, fearing more leaks to come, asked 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to investigate the source of the leak that show a much greater role of U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine. “The Department of Defense is actively reviewing the matter, and has made a formal referral to the Department of Justice for investigation,” said Sabrina Singh, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary. Recently released documents show direct involvement by U.S. forces on the ground, in the air and on the sea, exposing for all to see the direct role the Pentagon plays in the Ukraine War.
President Joe Biden, 80, and his national security team led by 60-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan have done everything possible to deny U.S. direct involvement in the Ukraine War. “Our forces are not and will not be engaged in a conflict with Russia in Ukraine,” Biden said Feb. 24, 2022 the day Russia invaded. “Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine, but to defend our NATO allies and reassure those allies in the East,” Biden said, denying that any U.S. troops would go to Ukrine. Recent classified leaks contradict Biden’s statements about using U .S. troops as advisers or trainers working with Ukrainian troops. New leaked reports show the how many artillery shells have used in Ukraine against Russian forces, including rocket-assisted missiles that have decimated Russian command posts and supply depots.
New York Times reported that not only are U.S. troops assisting Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, the U.S. has been spying on allies, without specifying which ones. Dated March 1, the leaked Top Secret report indicates that the Pentagon has been actively involved in orchestrating attacks on Russian forces. Kremlin officials have said for months that they no longer see the war as a war between Kiev and Moscow but between Washington and Moscow. Leaked reports prove the extensive involvement of U.S. troops in the Ukrainian battlefield. Pentagon officials fear that more leaks fully expose the extent of Pentagon direct involvement in the Ukraine War, undermining Biden’s claim that the U.S. government only supplies war materiel to Kiev. Pentagon officials have no clue the source of the leak but suspect it involves a Pentagon employee seeking to sabotage U.S. involvement in Ukraine.
Pentagon officials said the leak doesn’t have any practical effect on current operations in Ukraine, other than confirming direct Pentagon involvement in Ukraine’s battle with the Kremlin. With the FSB detaining and charging 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkowitch with spying, the White House knows that any hope of getting him out, including future prisoner swaps, is slim-and-none. Before the devastating leak, U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated to worst of Cold War lows. If anyone in the European Union doubted the extent of U.S. involvement in Ukraine, all doubts are gone. Brussels now knows, beyond any doubt, that the U.S. orchestrates the Ukraine War against the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin sees the U.S. as an enemy combatant in Ukraine, making diplomatic relations all but impossible, especially with the State Department.
Biden has collaborated with GOP war hawks on Capitol Hill, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to continue the battle against Putin and the Kremlin. Biden said himself March 26, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland that Putin should no longer remain as Russian president. Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin confirmed April 26, 2022 in Ramstein, Germany that the aim of the U.S. military in Ukraine was to degrade the Russian army to the point it could no longer wage war. Since then, the Kremlin battles Washington, knowing that the war was run from the White House. Today’s leaks confirm that Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin is run out of the White House. Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky takes his orders from Biden. U.S. allies know that Biden, not Zelensky, calls the shots in Ukraine. Russia knows that it’s Biden’s war against the Russian Federation.
White House officials speculate that the leaker is an “extremist” with sympathies to the Kremlin. How about that explanation? Calling the leaker an extremist or Putin sympathizer sounds extreme itself, knowing that the Ukraine War threatens the European Continent with possible WW III or nuclear war. Who are the “extremists,” the White House pushing the world to the brink or an unknown White House or Pentagon official who thinks the Ukraine War must end? Where the disloyalty to the U.S. trying to stop and conflict that could end up inflaming the European Continent? Biden has gotten a free pass on his war with Kremlin, largely because he’s denied U.S. involvement. Recent leaks prove beyond any doubt that the U.S. fights the war on the ground, in the air and sea in Ukraine. Any whistleblower or leaker may want Biden to end the U.S. involvement in the Ukraine War.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
