and here's a link to @stephenkinzer's new book Boiling Point: How America Brought War To Ukraine - a comprehensive account of everything leading up to Russia's "unprovoked" invasion. us.macmillan.com/books/97812504…

Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine.
-@scotthortonshow interviews author and journalist @stephenkinzer about his new book on the American interventions that brought about the conditions for the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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History matters!

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The CIA was parachuting agents into Ukraine 73 YEARS before Russia invaded.

And this isn't some conspiracy theory. It's in the CIA's own declassified records.

In September 1949, American-backed Ukrainian operatives were dropped into Soviet territory to support the .

Most of these missions ended disastrously.

Former NYT journalist Stephen Kinzer argues this was the beginning of a 75-year American strategy to use Ukraine against Moscow.

He traces that strategy through NATO expansion and the 2014 Maidan uprising, arguing that Washington helped create the conditions for the 2022 invasion.

Kinzer is clear that Russia was the aggressor.

But he makes a much more controversial argument: A simple U.S. commitment to keep Ukraine OUT of NATO might have prevented the war entirely.

That's debatable. The CIA operations in 1949 aren't.

Source: @zerohedge, @stephenkinzer / Writer: Oliver

CIA, NATO & Ukraine: Author Stephen Kinzer Reveals The Untold Story Behind the Russia Conflict - goo.gl/alerts/KGrnWW #GoogleAlerts

Award-winning author Stephen Kinzer (@stephenkinzer) joins today's Liberty Report to discuss his new book, "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine."

Prepare to hear how everything you know about the Ukraine/Russia war is wrong.

Watch below:

👏@stephenkinzer This is going to be a great show. #BoilingPoint #Ukraine
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Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephen Kinzer for a discussion of his new book, "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine."

Date: Thu, 11/5/2026
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA

I'll present my book "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine" at Brown tonight (11/4). The event will be live streamed at 5:30 EST.

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Russia Invaded Ukraine. Is That America’s Fault?

In “Boiling Point,” the journalist Stephen Kinzer argues that decades of U.S. intervention brought Moscow and Kyiv into inevitable conflict.

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Stephen Kinzer: How America Brought War to Ukraine
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I did a one-hour interview with Glenn Diesen about my new book "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine."

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NY Times calls me the "author of lauded Cold War histories" and says my new book "offers one of the thornier accounts of the causes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, placing a lot of the blame on the many decades of C.I.A. interventions in Eastern Europe."
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DC on Monday:

From bestselling author Stephen Kinzer, the untold story of the secret 75-year American campaign that set the stage for war in Ukraine.

Monday 11/2/2026 - 7:00pm

Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW

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David Swanson reviewed my new book for World Without War:

In "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine," Stephen Kinzer gives us deeper understanding of roots and motivations, establishing beyond any possible dispute that the U.S. government...

The US-Israeli attack on Iran in February was supposed to stabilize the Middle East and secure America’s dominance there, writes @stephenkinzer in #GlobeIdeas. It has done the opposite. trib.al/7V8jjsB

I read the generous excerpt on Amazon. There's a lot of pre-1991 history here that I wasn't aware of. Also some great Legacy-of-Ashes-style stories about CIA Ivy league chickenhawks sending idiot OUN insurgents to certain death by parachute. Take a look.