The CIA is manipulating the NY Times to manipulate Republican legislators to keep the money flowing to Ukraine so the CIA can keep paying its spies in the Ukraine. The NY Times reveals that Russia has been fighting a defensive war against CIA-backed Ukrainian assets since 2014, but then tries to say today's great threat is Russia on the offensive - the reason we need more CIA spies in the Ukraine. Not a good argument for more American tax dollars and more Ukrainian dead and more war.
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823