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Will Trump Blow Up America’s Most Effective Spying Alliance?
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Jan. 31, 2025 | Bojan Pancevski

Posted on 01/31/2025 9:07:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Five Eyes is the most powerful spying alliance in history. Forged in the conflagration of World War II, the intelligence-sharing pact among the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand helped defeat Nazism and Communism, fend off al Qaeda and Islamic State and shield its members from the ever-growing risk of cyberattacks.

Now former and serving members of the Five Eyes and outside experts say it is facing its biggest challenge ever: President Trump’s pledge to curb the “Deep State” by overhauling America’s vast intelligence apparatus. Trump left the Five Eyes alone during his first term and hasn’t named it as a target for his second, but his deep mistrust of U.S. intelligence agencies has security officials worried. Some believe that Trump sees the Five Eyes, like other U.S. alliances, as a racket in which foreign states benefit from U.S. resources, said Brian Boetig, a retired FBI official who helped manage strategic engagement with the Five Eyes.

“Our allies are now sitting back and wondering because of the rhetoric coming out of Washington,” said David P. Oakley, a former senior CIA official who is now academic director at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute.

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1 posted on 01/31/2025 9:07:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

oh let’s hope so


2 posted on 01/31/2025 9:08:36 PM PST by Strict9
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To: MinorityRepublican

He had better. It was that alliance that started the huge Russia hoax


3 posted on 01/31/2025 9:09:00 PM PST by madison10
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Did “Five Eyes” Try To Blow Up Trump in connection with the Russia Hoax?


4 posted on 01/31/2025 9:09:21 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Its evil, its a NWO tool and its being misused by the likes of traitor Marxist John Brennan.


5 posted on 01/31/2025 9:10:16 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: madison10

If I was reading my newspaper and eating a sandwich, and read that Trump had stripped naked, and was running around the capitol building swinging an axe and hacking at people, I’d think to myself, “ About damn time. Man of the people.” And I would turn the page and keep eating my sandwich.


6 posted on 01/31/2025 9:13:16 PM PST by Strict9
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To: All

7 posted on 01/31/2025 9:13:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Strict9

Ditto.


8 posted on 01/31/2025 9:14:35 PM PST by madison10
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To: MinorityRepublican

Blow up
Most effective
Childish language
Worthless drivel


9 posted on 01/31/2025 9:17:44 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: MinorityRepublican
Expletives deleted!   It was great until it was used in an attempt to destroy Donald Trump among others.
The Five Eyes is the most powerful spying alliance in history.

10 posted on 01/31/2025 9:18:11 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Strict9

Come on now, admit it. You’d also take a sip of your drink.


11 posted on 01/31/2025 9:20:09 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Strict9

TOTALLY.

MOST OF THESE ‘tards need to be sent back to their mothers’ basements.


12 posted on 01/31/2025 9:20:26 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Will Trump blow up Americas most effective spying alliance?”

He’d better.


13 posted on 01/31/2025 9:23:46 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cutting through the BS, The Five Eyes is how the Deep State international elites get around domestic espionage laws. The ruling party uses foreign agencies to spy on their political opponents, and then they all return the favor. Think about how the Steele dossier worked.


14 posted on 01/31/2025 9:25:24 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“...Forged in the conflagration of World War II...”
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Obsolete.


15 posted on 01/31/2025 9:28:16 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Dr. Franklin
The Five Eyes is how the Deep State international elites get around domestic espionage laws.

We have Constitutional rights. Can't be doing that.

We should have ended the Five Eyes after WWII.

16 posted on 01/31/2025 9:29:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

And also keep Russia and China as ‘enemies’ instead of mutually beneficial trading partners. And get the rest of the world to hate Americans.

All to benefit the smallest exclusive slice of our population.


17 posted on 01/31/2025 9:30:11 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: MinorityRepublican

Everything has expiration date, even the so-called most effective alliance.


18 posted on 01/31/2025 9:30:56 PM PST by paudio (NEW MATH: 45=47)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fishy that they preemptively start to say this.

The “Five Eyes” part of it is just a name.

If administration surrounding it is the problem, then it’s a problem.

But it won’t “blow up” any of the actual efficient activities.


19 posted on 01/31/2025 9:34:11 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Five Eyes is the most powerful spying alliance in history.

Are they spending more time watching dangerous illegal aliens planted in their counties by hostile foreign governments or are they spending more time spying on the political opposition that has been threatening to take control back from the deep state? Just about everyone on both sides knows the answer.

20 posted on 01/31/2025 9:35:08 PM PST by fireman15
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