The deep-state is protecting its playground - Ukraine

I am siding with Putin on this one.  I feel incredibly sorry for the citizens of Ukraine but its government is corrupt as hell.  The deep-state has turned it into a place for money-laundering and human and narcotics trafficking.  They need to protect this - can not have the truth get exposed.  Since the deep-state is so embedded in the core of our Federal Government, they are sending in the FedGov foot soldiers to preserve their playground.  From the New York Times by way of the Internet Archive (bypasses their paywall):

Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say
As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and its allies — including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.

Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.

At the same time, a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania, also have been working inside Ukraine. The United States withdrew its own 150 military instructors before the war began in February, but commandos from these allies either remained or have gone in and out of the country since then, training and advising Ukrainian troops and providing an on-the-ground conduit for weapons and other aid, three U.S. officials said.

If they are saying "hundreds", the real number is thousands.  A lot more at the site - we are in very deep for what is being touted as a regional dispute.  Wonder why?  Follow the money.  This is the deep-state's playground and they do not want it disturbed...