The New York Times published a gigantic piece detailing how the Pentagon and the CIA actually ran all of Ukraine's tactical operations out of a base in Wiesbaden, Germany — after building a colossal Ukraine war machine post our 2014 color revolution in Kiev. Since the very start of the hot war in 2022, we did all the targeting for the weapons we gave them and planned their every move.

I remember arguing with Destinoids in '23 who were outraged that I would call it a US proxy war.

Nowadays it would be 'yes it's a US proxy war, and that's a good thing.'

[Americans & Ukrainians at the American screens]

Americans: "WTF is that new contact, lol it's the Moskva"

Ukrainians: "Sweet thx"

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[Americans] panic, because the Biden administration hadn't intended to enable the Ukrainians to attack such a potent symbol of Russian power.

It's like the harm reduction, criminal justice reform version of warfighting.

>chuds were right again

You can tell the difference when you see the ground operations planned by Ukrainians.

Something everyone with a brain had already assumed from the beginning.

I hadn't guessed Wiesbaden, though, so that's nice to know.

Snapshots:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)