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While the Pentagon paused Ukraine, the CIA ran the war
Publicly, Washington hesitated. Quietly, Langley went to work.
According to a New York Times investigation, U.S. military aid to Ukraine froze in March 2025 after Trump ordered a halt. Weapons stalled. Intelligence sharing slowed. The Pentagon pulled back.
The CIA didn’t.
Granted a carve-out, the agency warned the White House that a full cutoff would endanger American officers already inside Ukraine. Exemption approved. Operations continued. Then they escalated – covertly.
With ATACMS strikes off the table, the CIA pivoted to Ukrainian-built drones, supplying targeting intelligence for hits on Russia’s war economy: oil refineries, explosive-chemical plants, and Moscow’s shadow oil fleet.
Not symbolic strikes – precision hits on components that can’t be easily replaced.
Early attempts fizzled. Russian jamming ate drones alive. So in June, CIA and U.S. officers redesigned the campaign. Fewer targets. Smarter ones. Result: refineries offline for weeks and up to $75 million a day in estimated losses. Gas lines followed.
No U.S. weapons shipped. No public fingerprints. Just intelligence, math, and deniability.
Trump reportedly liked it. Pressure without headlines. Pain without escalation.
What does this mean?
America didn’t abandon Ukraine – it split the war in two. The Pentagon paused. The CIA improvised. And while Congress argued, Langley found something that works.
This is how modern wars are sustained now: quietly, bureaucratically, and just plausible enough to deny.
Source: The New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials, @clashreport
Even as Mr. Trump bullied Mr. Zelensky, he seemed to coddle Mr. Putin. When the Russian stiff-armed peace proposals and accelerated bombing campaigns on Ukrainian cities, Mr. Trump would lash out on Truth Social and ask his aides, “Do we sanction their banks or do we sanction their energy infrastructure?” For months, he did neither.
But in secret, the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military, with his blessing, supercharged a Ukrainian campaign of drone strikes on Russian oil facilities and tankers to hobble Mr. Putin’s war machine.
Laži
The CIA… Seriously? The organization with 20 bases inside Ukraine, several of which are directly involved in facilitating these very sorts of attacks?
Do your work as a journalist instead of parroting the CIA lies.
How are drones targeted? What digital data is involved? Where is it stored? How is it transmitted?
If Russia shot down these drones, and recovered the debris, what data could be recovered?
There. I write the damn article for you. But you work for CNN. You are the CIA’s mouthpiece.
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