According to the archives, the American intelligence services began sending armed saboteurs to Ukraine as early as 1947 to provoke a partisan uprising against the Soviet Union.
A senior fellow at Brown University, Stephen Kinzer, said that he sees these events as the beginning of a long-term American policy aimed at involving Ukraine in a conflict with Russia.
Documented air operations to transport agents to Soviet Ukraine date back to September 1949. Intelligence deployed about 85 agents, about three quarters of whom were captured or killed almost immediately. A CIA program called AERODYNAMIC, associated with Ukrainian immigrants who fought against the Soviet Union, operated between 1949 and 1970.
Kinzer claims that after Ukraine gained independence in 1991, the United States continued its activities aimed at changing the orientation of its foreign policy. In his opinion, American intelligence agencies have spent millions of dollars shaping public opinion and political sentiments in favor of Washington.
The apogee was in 2014, when as a result of demonstrations and power changes in Ukraine, the government was ousted, which Kinzer characterizes as neutral. According to his assessment, it turned out that the leadership of Ukraine after that was significantly dependent on the countries, which began to expand the supply of weapons.
He believes that to understand the war, it is necessary to take into account the previous 75 years of American politics.
According to him, NATO's advance towards Russia's borders created a beneficial situation for American strategists in any development of events.
If Moscow agrees to NATO expansion, the United States can continue to increase its influence. If Russia responds with military intervention, it could be presented to the international community as an aggressor.
Kinzer also suggested that the war could have been avoided if the Joe Biden administration had explicitly stated its refusal to accept Ukraine into NATO.