CIA Director John Ratcliffe Confirms President Trump Paused “Intelligence Sharing” (ie The Drone Targeting System) With Ukraine

Two sources informed the Financial Times that President Trump paused “intelligence sharing” with Ukraine. In a follow-up another source told Sky News the “intelligence sharing” with Ukraine was paused, but the intel is still shared with the U.K.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo and confirmed President Trump instructed a pause in “intelligence sharing.” However, it’s a little funny because everyone is using the term “intelligence sharing” to avoid saying what is actually happening.

President Trump paused the drone and missile “targeting system” being used by CIA and Ukraine partners; that’s what the “intelligence sharing” factually consists of. Why don’t they use the term “targeting system”?… Because if they did, they would be admitting the USA has been the military/IC operation firing missiles and drones against Russia.

Within the Sky News report, they go right up to the edge in describing what the “intelligence” being paused actually consists of. “Asked whether it is correct that the US has stopped sharing intelligence, the source said: “Unfortunately, yes, but not completely. It is selective. On the possibility of damage on the territory of the Russian Federation”.

Bottom Line – President Trump has paused “sharing” the U.S controlled targeting system that was being used (by Ukraine and the CIA) to target Russian military forces. WATCH (prompted)

Pausing the targeting system was exactly what CTH recommended. Keep watching. Now that we are seeing CIA Director Ratcliffe confirm it, there should be no doubt it has been the USA Intelligence Community all along operating the military systems in Ukraine.

Everyone has been pretending. In fact, it is our proxy war that President Trump is stopping. A frustrated Trump has been trying to navigate through this grand construct of pretending that he was left to deal with.

"Wouldn’t it be wild if Russia took advantage and launched an offensive."

I don't think they need to at the moment, they should be rearming, regrouping, solidifying positions and maneuvering into positions from which they can launch final operations if/when a cease fire is called.

When a cease fire is announced there will be a window of say 48-72 hours before it goes into effect, that's when you make some lighting strikes to capture the last of the ground you want, granted this may be ground you return in a peace settlement but it is ground you can bargain with. IMHO

They already did. Against civilian targets, apparently.

Also, Russia is crowing about it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14467835/Putins-iron-doll-threatened-NUKE-Downing-Street-delights-Trump-not-setting-conditions-Russia-forcing-Kyiv-compromise-Ukraine-peace-deal.html

Also: Grok 3 confirms, if you ask it to compare the list of things the USA demands from Ukraine to the list of polite asks in Moscow’s direction, the USA has not asked for a single concession from Russia... while demanding the moon on a stick from Ukraine.

Also: it’s been observed that at the same time as telling Ukraine behind closed doors to conscript and mobilise more of its young people, social media is seeing a huge uptick in US condemnation of Ukrainian conscripts being dragged off the streets. Following a pattern of Ukraine getting damned if it does something it’s been told to, after being damned for not doing it.

Also: after spending ten years criticising Europe for mooching off the USA and telling it to spend 3-5% of GDP on defense, America is now criticising Europe for actually doing it... While cheering plucky Orban for vetoing it! Same tactic - damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

I don’t think the USA really understands yet, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has a Daffy Duck beak, it’s probably a duck. The only party revelling in this utter chaos is Russia.

I’ve already seen one social media commentator suggest Zelensky should reject the mineral deal, by writing an open letter to call Donald Trump by the title, Comrade Krasnov, KGB Gauleiter of the newly constituted Washington Oblast of the Russian Federation.

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