Patrick Byrne claims the FBI, led by Peter Strzok, was setting up the "Russia collusion" narrative as early as February 2015. He alleges that Maria Butina was allowed to operate freely to create a "back channel" that could be used to frame any future Republican president. Byrne further argues that the Ukraine war was engineered by the same intelligence actors to provoke a conflict with a great power for no valid national security reason.




