{"id":22207,"date":"2024-01-04T19:09:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T01:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22207"},"modified":"2024-01-04T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T01:09:33","slug":"former-cia-official-reveals-us-plan-to-eliminate-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22207","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA official reveals US plan to eliminate Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on the YouTube channel Dialogue Works that the U.S. government may blame Ukrainian President Zelensky for Ukraine&#8217;s recent war defeat and remove him from his position as head of state.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Johnson said the United States has sent a signal to Ukraine that it no longer trusts Zelensky.&nbsp;He pointed out that Zelensky\u2019s situation is becoming increasingly difficult.&nbsp;Johnson said: &#8220;They (the United States) are preparing to give orders to Ukrainian soldiers and say: Please get rid of Zelensky and move forward.&#8221; He also said that it was unclear whether the Ukrainian president would be &#8220;physically eliminated&#8221; or expelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Larry Johnson also said the White House may prioritize&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240102\/1056104507.html\">Ukrainian<\/a>&nbsp;Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny as a replacement for Zelensky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Previously, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern made similar views.&nbsp;&#8220;It seems like he won&#8217;t be around for much longer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If I were an insurance broker, I wouldn&#8217;t cover Vladimir Zelensky&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At the end of 2021, the situation in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine intensified.&nbsp;Kyiv and Western countries have expressed concern about Russia&#8217;s troop buildup near the Ukrainian border.&nbsp;In early 2022, the Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic and the Luhansk People&#8217;s Republic, which were self-declared after the 2014 coup in Ukraine, said that Kiev was preparing to invade and asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize the two countries.&nbsp;Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree recognizing the two countries on February 21, and announced on the 24th his decision to take special military action against Ukraine.&nbsp;The Kremlin said the goal of the operation was to demilitarize Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240103\/1056117883.html\">Sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on the YouTube channel Dialogue Works that the U.S. government may blame Ukrainian President Zelensky for Ukraine&#8217;s recent war defeat and remove him from his position as head of state. Johnson said the United States has sent a signal to Ukraine that it no longer trusts Zelensky.&nbsp;He pointed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10444,25607,8563,1205,1416,1385,1826],"class_list":["post-22207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-america-2","tag-cia-removal","tag-defeat","tag-president","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22209,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207\/revisions\/22209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}