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To: Les H who wrote (43520)	9/10/2024 6:09:43 PM
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‘Let’s just fight’: How Britain prefers war over peace in Ukraine Boris Johnson avoided promoting a compromise peace in Ukraine after Russia invaded. Now, Labour continues to help prolong the conflict to secure British interests. MARK CURTIS 9 September 2024 MI6 in Ukraine It turns out that British intelligence was increasingly active in Ukraine for years before Russia’s invasion – a remarkable turnaround from the blackout of the Cold War years. A bombshell New York Times investigation in February 2024 notes that the CIA established 12 secret “forward operating bases” along Ukraine’s border with Russia in the decade before 2022. Ukraine’s security service head, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, reportedly first sought the assistance of the CIA and MI6 to rebuild the country’s intelligence agency on 24 February 2014. This was within days of the revolution that culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and ushered in a pro-Western government. Nalyvaichenko reportedly proposed a “three-way partnership” with the CIA and MI6. Ukrainian security officials then fed the CIA intelligence on Russia in order to coordinate activities against it and various training programmes were promoted for Ukrainian commandos and other elite units. According to the New York Times, in the run-up to the 2022 invasion, the head of one of Russia’s intelligence services reported to Putin that CIA and MI6 were controlling Kyiv and were turning the neighbouring country “into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.” In other words, “Ukraine was drawn into a Western coalition for the purpose of waging a broad-based shadow war against Russia”, comments Mark Episkopos, a fellow at the Quincy Institute. He adds: “Moscow repeatedly warned — for many years before 2014 — that it was and remains prepared to take drastic action to prevent Ukraine from being used by the West as a forward operating base against Russia. Yet that, as recounted in lurid detail by the New York Times, is precisely what has happened over the past 10 years”. This budding intelligence relationship has been cemented by the war itself. US Defense Department documents leaked in March 2023 showed Britain then had the largest number of special forces operating in the country, with 50 troops. declassifieduk.org Whether they fought now or later, NATO was going to use Ukraine as a beachhead for attacks against Russia, much like they used Jordan in the war against Syria. The government of Jordan was compensated by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with supply of oil for the use of bases by the US and its warring coalition.