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Hersh’s reporting shows that Biden and his advisors secretly planned this act of aggression against Russia long before Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. “The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022,” he wrote. The motive for the attack was that “As long as Europe remained dependent on the pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia.”