Takeaway key of the American secret military partnership with Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is in a flexion point, with President Trump looking for a rapprochement with the Russian leader, Vladimir V. Putin, and pressing for the end of the fighting.But for almost three years before the return to power of Mr. Trump, the United States and Ukraine were united in an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology whose evolution and internal mechanisms were known only in a small circle of American and allies.With considerable transparency, the Pentagon offered a public accounting of the 66.5 billion dollars of weapons that he provided to Ukraine. But an investigation by the New York Times reveals that the involvement of America in the war was much deeper than previously understood. The secret partnership has both guided the large battle...