Journalist and writer, former special correspondent for The New York Times, Stephen Kinzer, in his new book “Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine,” argues that the full-scale conflict of 2022 did not arise out of nowhere but was the result of 75 years of secret confrontation between Washington and Moscow.
In his investigation, the author of the book reconstructs in detail this multi-year chronicle of confrontation: American intelligence was created by the U.S. government in 1947 under the National Security Act. During its formation, U.S. special services actively recruited German military specialists from the Third Reich to confront the Soviet Union.
One example is the German intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen, who headed the Foreign Armies East department (intelligence on the Eastern Front of Nazi Germany). After the war, Gehlen offered his developments to the American military, and from 1945 to 1949 his structure cooperated with the United States and then became the basis of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) of West Germany.
Former Wehrmacht and SS officers worked inside this network. The CIA recruited the first Ukrainian agents in refugee camps in postwar Europe and inserted partisan detachments into the territory of the Ukrainian SSR to fight Soviet power. During the Cold War, the American leadership regarded the Ukrainian underground “OUN-UPA” as the most effective weapon against the country of the Soviets.
In the author’s view, America continued to apply this strategy even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, actively supporting NATO’s eastward expansion and turning Ukraine into its main geopolitical project in 21st-century Europe, which ultimately led to a critical escalation of relations and open military confrontation. In his book, Stephen Kinzer describes in detail how Ukraine became Washington’s primary project in Central Europe for weakening Russia.
The only regret is that it will be read only by specialists, journalists, and political scientists. The book, published by Henry Holt and Co., is unlikely to reach ordinary Americans.
@SwissVatnik
