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The Deep State Is Still Sabotaging Presidential Policies
Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar reminds us of subtle maneuvers by deep state actors to sabotage presidential policies.
When a U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union President Dwight Eisenhower had not be informed about its real mission. The CIA claimed that it had been a weather plane that went off course after its pilot was incapacitated. The president repeated that tale.
The Soviets then published that the wreckage of the U-2 spy plane had been recovered and the pilot captured alive. The Soviets were miffed of being lied to and Eisenhower's attempt of detente with them failed.
Bhadrakumar sees a parallel in the recent Ukrainian drone attacks on strategic bomber on several Russian air field.
President Trump, in a call with the Russian president Putin, claimed that the U.S. had had no knowledge of the attack. That is, as several former CIA members confirm, implausible. The operation had been the making for 18 month which means that it had been initiated under President Biden. U.S. and/or British intelligence was certainly involved in designating the targets.
It seem that Trump, like Eisenhower before him, was not informed and thus embarrassed himself.
While Trump was talking with Putin Russian officials warned that deep state forces within the U.S. have not changed their anti-Russian aims:
Moscow should take very seriously reports that certain circles in the United States want to see Russia destroyed, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a news conference at TASS ..
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"The fact that certain circles in the United States have been and are still hatching plans to move towards eradicating Russia as a state is also undeniable. It is enough to follow the discussions that are taking place, including on political science platforms. We should not underestimate the consequences of such a mindset," the deputy minister noted.
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His comments came in response to the words of Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in an interview with Le Monde, who argued that former US President Joe Biden, during his administration, mentioned a desire to destroy Russia.
Ryabkov probably though of an upcoming conference about the 'fracturing states' of 'one of the globe’s last colonial empires', i.e. Russia, by the CIA connected Jamestown Foundation. The invitation to the conference says:
The Kremlin’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine come at the cost of potential mutinies, fracture, and dissolution at home. Understanding the consequences of Russia’s deteriorating internal conditions will be the main topic of the upcoming conference, which will involve experts in foreign affairs, defense, and geopolitics, along with representatives of Russia’s captive nations long-recognized by the United States. Russia is one of the globe’s last colonial empires, denying captive nations the right to self-determination and independence. Whether it remains an aggressive imperial power committed to threatening its neighbors or otherwise devolves into fracturing states, U.S. and allied policymakers cannot afford to ignore Russia’s future.
While Trump is at least somewhat attempting to create better relations with the Russian Federation parts of the foreign policy blob are still dreaming of dismantling it.
We are seeing similar attempts of counteracting presidential policies with regards to China.
On May 11 during trade talks between the U.S. and China in Geneva both sides agreed to calm things down:
Both sides reduced their tariffs. China also promised to reduce some of its non tariff measures:
China will [..] adopt all necessary administrative measures to suspend or remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2, 2025.
The financial markets relaxed and everyone was happy about it.
But on May 14, the very same day the new rules were to apply, the U.S. introduced new and extremely harsh measures against Chinese products:
The US Commerce Department issued guidance stating that the use of Huawei Technologies Co’s Ascend artificial intelligence (AI) chips “anywhere in the world” violates the government’s export controls, escalating US efforts to curb technological advances in China.
The agency’s Bureau of Industry and Security said in a statement on Tuesday that it is also planning to warn the public about “the potential consequences of allowing US AI chips to be used for training and inference of Chinese AI models”.
While this may not have been a technical breach of the Geneva agreement it certainly violated the spirit of the agreed upon Joint Statement: …
In consequence China continued to withhold export licensees for rare earth products which U.S. industries need. Trump was furious about this but seemingly without understanding what had caused China to take that step.
On Thursday a phone called between Trump and President Xi tried to calm things down (archived).
The two leaders, speaking for the first time since Trump became president, agreed to another round of high-level trade talks to follow up on the truce reached in Geneva last month, and exchanged invitations for state visits.
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Trump said on Truth Social “there should no longer be any questions respecting the complexity of Rare Earth products,” but the Chinese readout didn’t mention the issue.
On Friday, just a day after the president's attempt to calm down trade issues with China, four deep state actors set out to again sabotage him:
The U.S. in recent days suspended licenses for nuclear equipment suppliers to sell to China's power plants, according to four people familiar with the matter, as the two countries engage in a damaging trade war.
The suspensions were sent to companies by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the people said, and affect export licenses for parts and equipment used with nuclear power plants.
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Nuclear equipment suppliers are among a wide range of companies whose sales have been restricted over the past two weeks as the U.S.-China trade war shifted from negotiating tariffs to throttling each other's supply chains. It is unclear whether a Thursday call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping would affect the suspensions.
Why, just a day after Trump's call with Xi, did 'four people familiar with the matter' found it necessary to inform Reuters of this?
This is, like the withholding of information on CIA operations in Russia, a measure to embarrass the president in eyes U.S. opponents. It is also an obvious attempt to sabotage trade with China.
The Chinese will note that the president's words get counteracted by his administration. Why should they even talk with him when he is not able to impose his own policies on the people who are supposedly working for him?
In consequence U.S. companies will have wo wait longer to be allowed to purchase the rare earth products they urgently need and can only get from China.
https://www.rt.com/russia/618753-ukraines-most-reckless-attack/
The above article clarifies many doubts and lists the main remaining doubt.
I ask permission from b to transcribe the article here, for those who are under censorship (Canada, United Kingdom and European Union*) and without access to Russian media).
*Plato’s Cave or Borrell’s Garden
Ukraine’s most reckless attack: Was NATO behind it?
The logistics, timing, and technology behind the attack raise bigger questions about who was really involved
By Dmitry Kornev, military expert, founder and author of the MilitaryRussia project
While Western headlines celebrated Operation Spider’s Web as a daring feat of Ukrainian ingenuity, a closer look reveals something far more calculated – and far less Ukrainian. This wasn’t just a strike on Russian airfields. It was a test – one that blended high-tech sabotage, covert infiltration, and satellite-guided timing with the kind of precision that only the world’s most advanced intelligence networks can deliver. And it begs the question: who was really pulling the strings?
Let’s be honest. Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence didn’t act alone. It couldn’t have.
Even if no Western agency was directly involved in the operation itself, the broader picture is clear: Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, its military, and even its top political leadership rely heavily on Western intelligence feeds. Ukraine is deeply embedded within NATO’s intelligence-sharing architecture. The idea of a self-contained Ukrainian intel ecosystem is largely a thing of the past. These days, Kiev draws primarily on NATO-provided data, supplementing it with its own domestic sources where it can.
That’s the backdrop – a hybrid model that’s become standard over the past two years. Now, let’s look more closely at Operation Spider’s Web itself. We know the planning took roughly 18 months and involved moving drones covertly into Russian territory, hiding them, and then orchestrating coordinated attacks on key airfields. So how likely is it that Western intelligence agencies had a hand in such a complex operation?
Start with logistics. It’s been reported that 117 drones were prepped for launch inside Russia. Given that numerous private companies in Russia currently manufacture drones for the war effort, it wouldn’t have been difficult to assemble the necessary devices under that cover. That’s almost certainly what happened. Components were likely purchased domestically under the guise of supplying the “Special Military Operation.” Still, it’s hard to believe Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence could have pulled off this mass procurement and assembly alone. It’s highly likely Western intelligence agencies played a quiet but crucial role – especially in securing specialized components.
Then there’s the explosives. If the operation’s command center was located in the Ural region, as some suggest, it’s plausible that explosives or components were smuggled in via neighboring CIS countries. That kind of border-hopping precision doesn’t happen without outside help. In fact, it mirrors tactics long perfected by intelligence services in both the US and Western Europe.
Because make no mistake: this wasn’t just the CIA’s playground. European services – particularly those in the UK, France, and Germany – possess the same capabilities to execute and conceal such an operation. The NATO intelligence community may have different national flags, but it speaks with one voice in the field.
The real giveaway, however, lies in the timing of the strikes. These weren’t blind attacks on static targets. Russia’s strategic bombers frequently rotate bases. Commercial satellite imagery – updated every few days at best – simply can’t track aircraft on the move. And yet these drones struck with exquisite timing. That points to a steady flow of real-time surveillance, likely derived from signals intelligence, radar tracking, and live satellite feeds – all tools in the Western intelligence toolbox.
Could Ukraine, on its own, have mustered that kind of persistent, multidomain awareness? Not a chance. That level of situational intelligence is the domain of NATO’s most capable agencies – particularly those tasked with monitoring Russian military infrastructure as part of their day job.
For years now, Ukraine has been described in Western media as a plucky underdog using low-cost tactics to take on a larger foe. But beneath the David vs. Goliath narrative lies a more uncomfortable truth: Ukraine’s intelligence ecosystem is now deeply embedded within NATO’s operational architecture. Real-time feeds from US and European satellites, intercepts from British SIGINT stations, operational planning consultations with Western handlers – this is the new normal.
Ukraine still has its own sources, but it’s no longer running a self-contained intelligence operation. That era ended with the first HIMARS launch.
Western officials, of course, deny direct involvement. But Russian investigators are already analyzing mobile traffic around the impact sites. If it turns out that these drones weren’t connected to commercial mobile networks – if, instead, they were guided through encrypted, military-grade links – it will be damning. Not only would that confirm foreign operational input, it would expose the full extent of how Western assets operated inside Russia without detection.
At that point, no amount of plausible deniability will cover the truth. The question will no longer be whether NATO participated – but how deep that participation ran.
Posted by: Elber | Jun 7 2025 12:22 utc | 8
I had the same thoughts as Mr. Bhadrakumar: the cia fingerprints are all over these attempts to disrupt diplomacy. Back then, the threat was diplomacy between the US and Soviets, leading to what Eisenhower hoped would be a lasting peace. Peace is the last thing the cia needs. Which is why they deliberately allowed the U-2 to fly with an insufficient amount of hydrogen (trace amounts of hydrogen were infused with jet fuel to assist combustion at high altitude). Anyway, to make a long story short, the cia planned it all to make sure that Eisenhower’s peace initiative would never happen. The U-2, which violated Soviet airspace, crashed after Powers parachuted safely out of it. Washington knew the plane was down but didn’t know Powers survived and said nothing – the “Peace” conference was only 2 weeks away. Washington tried to sell the line that it was a weather plane gone awry, a high altitude plane that was part of NASA’s space program. After a week of silence, Khrushchev acknowledged that he had the remnants of the plane, and that Powers was alive and well. He stopped short of accusing Eisenhower of knowing that the flight had been ordered over Soviet territory and said “I am prepared to grant that the President had no knowledge of a plane being dispatched to the CCCP and failing to return; but that should alert us still more.”
For workers in the US, we should also be on alert. Russia is being encircled now, just as was the CCCP in the Cold War. When the Soviets collapsed, the US, EU and NATO assumed they could acquire and control whatever remained of the wreckage. Yeltsin, the US puppet, was ordered to dismantle the CCCP and outlaw the CP. The plan was that NATO and its’ political wing, the EU, would then expand eastwards to devour all the Eastern European and former Soviet states into the US-EU military alliance. A number of countries resisted, Belarus, Yugoslavia, Russia and at the time even Ukraine. In the 1st decade of the new century, the EU and NATO along with the US attempted to encircle Russia because of its stubbornness in not recognizing a world run by and for the US, which thought of itself as the sole major power in the world. Defeated in Latin America and losing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US turned its’ attention back to Russia. In 2008, the US encouraged Georgia to attack South Ossetia. This led to a short war, in which Russia defeated the Israeli-trained forces of Georgia. This made the US more determined to go for Ukraine using its’ EU and NATO stooges. As everyone knows, eventually in 2014 demonstrators brandishing EU flags, supported by neo-nazis and armed fascists, took to the streets of Kiev to attack the government, which fled to Russia.
Part of the US fleet is in the Persian Gulf. Some of the most advanced US warships capable of firing missiles with nuclear warheads are in the Black Sea and more NATO war-games seem to be an annual event in the Baltic sea. Syria and Iraq are in chaos and there are US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, SA, Qatar, UAE and Oman as well as the huge complex of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Capitalism is experiencing a dire economic situation that shows little sign of lifting. In this context, warning of the drive to war led by the US, not Russia, is not scaremongering. Capitalism has nowhere to go. It is in absolute decline. Without a working class response taking responsibility for its’ own future, war is always a potential outcome. Now, more than ever, it’s a time for the working class to make a stand against war.
Posted by: zeke2u | Jun 7 2025 13:53 utc | 44
The U2 spy plane shot down in 1960 was sabotaged by what Fletcher Prouty called the Secret Team, in order to stop the upcoming peace talks between Khrushchev and Eisenhower, and they were successful. The U2 plane usually flew too high for the Soviets to reach it, but the sabotage made it fly lower.
(We now call it the Deep State, but Prouty wrote a book on how he helped set up the cooperation between the Pentagon and the newly fledged CIA, and he called it The Secret Team, because that is what it literally was.)
A very interesting part of that tale is that the Soviets announced that they had shot down the plane and the US denied it. Then the Soviets produced the pilot and the media reported it! Was this part of the plan, or was the media not completely under the thumb of what Frank Wisner of the CIA called the Mighty Wurlitzer? Note that the media no longer reports or publishes anything the Russians say.
Eisenhower knew nothing of the plan, but took responsibility anyway, as did JFK in 1961, when the CIA invaded Cuba in the Bay of Pigs operation.
But JFK, furious, fired Allen Dulles and threatened to destroy the CIA into a thousand pieces.
Instead, the CIA blew his head off, in broad daylight in the middle of town square. The media, TO THIS DAY, dutifully reported what they were told to report, that a lone nut pulled off the shot of a lifetime, (which no sniper was able to repeat, but that was never reported in msm), and killed the president from behind.
No matter that the doctors who treated him at Parkland stated that the shot came from the front, that never made the “news”.
If a tree falls in the forest and the media doesn’t report it, did it happen?
No.
Then 3 days later, another lone nut walked into the basement of the Dallas police station and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, while he was in police escort.
Nothing to see here, said the media.
I am pointing this out because if Trump didn’t know that the US was providing aid to attack a nuclear armed country’s actual nuclear bombers, then that is a Big Deal.
The media was triumphant for a few days, then switched to the “docked planes at an air field” story, along with calling the terrorist attack on the passenger train “a bridge collapse”. Damn Soviets, can’t even build a sturdy bridge, amirite?
Heads should roll at the CIA and Pentagon now. Get al Julani’s men to do it, if Trump can’t find Americans capable of the task. Taking the sanctions off Syria should come with a price, if Trump really is a businessman.
Seriously, this is a tearing down of the curtain, and it should be a Big Deal in the US, but if the Mighty Wurlitzer doesn’t tell Americans to care, they won’t.
Maybe the next time the US sponsors a terrorist attack on Russian civilians, or blows up some more nuclear bombers, the Russians should just Hazelnut Langley. For a start.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 7 2025 15:58 utc | 90
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