So who is REALLY running the show?
-z man
-ultra nationalists
-cia
-EU
-Israel
-trump
-crooked joe biden
-crooked hunter biden
-deep state
-monica lewenski
-all of the above
?
Almost all of those actors have some sort of tie.
Really this is just continuity of agenda RE: anti-Soviet Cold War, all of the field grades are now in think tanks, politics, the IC, or flag officers.
2004 Orange Revolution, as well as similar influence ops in Georgia, Romania, Moldova, Belarus (plus Dagestan, Chechnya, and parts of the Central Asian states), riled up all of the ultranationalist-separatists. Banderites/OUN-B douches in Ukraine, Islamic terrorists in Dagestan and Chechnya, Georgian separatists in what is now Ossetia, etc.
That was almost exclusively US-led. So Mark off CIA, Ultranationalists, Deep State on that one.
Going to the Maidan, that was part us and part EU (France, Germany, UK) mostly with USAID & NED - NED being the same organization that Nuland now runs. It's like people forget what happened in the lead-up to the Maidan and right after it. Russians raped and murdered in the eastern Oblasts, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Lvov, and Odessa. Plus all of the carnage by the "ATO" - Aidar, North Front, Azov, 1-Dnipro, 2-Dnipro, Kraken - a lot of these units are still in existence or rolled into the SSU/SBU.
The Biden's were really about soft power, quid pro quo. Burisma and getting contracts in the Black Sea allowed us to project power via Romanian, Ukraine, and parts of Turkey. We put in our boys, and Biden and his family get thrown a bone. The Ukies remove some people sniffing around, and they get some ladies, kids, Lambos, whatever.
Trump is a few steps removed from a neo-con. Either because he's a dirty liar or he is easily manipulated. He okayed 101st, 10th SFG, SMUs, and several others (included USMC Reserves and the CIA) to go into country from when he came into power, plus gave them a shitload of Javs, Stingers, and a bunch of ammo and other mothballed equipment in 2019 to finish the stupidity off.
He's still doing it. We're giving them our tax dollars, our intel, we still have CIA bases, and Spiderweb was 100% done with our targeting and ISR platforms, if not more (plus the EU powerbase).
Israel, meh, don't think so. Z-Dog likes bringing up his Judaism in certain regards but what power projection that the Israelis have in Ukraine is anyone's guess. They do give munitions and platforms, but are just an intermediary for us, since we subsidize 25-50% of their armament in any given year.
Monica? Lol who knows, maybe she's giving happy endings to Budanov before the SBU blows his car up.