Posted on 03/05/2025 12:16:49 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Intelligence sharing between Washington and Kyiv has been stopped, London’s Financial Times reports, citing “officials”. Access to the products of the highly developed Western intelligence establishment has lent a serious edge to Kyiv over the numerically superior Russian forces, allowing it to direct strikes with precision, including in the increasingly prominent realm of drone warfare.
Strikes including the destruction of major Russian warships using uncrewed bomb boats and cruise missiles far from observation by land have previously been said to have been coordinated with American intelligence, which is collected by assets including satellites and drones over the Black Sea.
The United States is the senior partner in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network, an association of anglophone nations the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which co-circulate the product of their spy networks without redaction or control. It is perhaps the closest intelligence agreement between sovereign states in history and has been invaluable through the Cold War, the War on Terror, and in neatly circumventing laws against spying on the citizens of member states.
Per a report in The Daily Mail, the United States, as part of turning off the intelligence tap to Ukraine, has already moved to prevent its close allies from either deliberately or inadvertently continuing to send reports to Kyiv. This has, the paper states, come in the form of an explicit order to London to stop sending Washington-derived intelligence to Kyiv, and the suspension of what it describes as the ‘Rel UKR’ classification, apparently standing for ‘releasable to Ukraine’.
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So the U.S. has now stopped providing Ukraine intelligence about Russian missile attacks on its population centers. Trump did this so he can be neutral and broker a deal with Putin, a man who has broken every deal on Ukraine he made, and the Budapest Memorandum which he inherited.
Who cares.
I suspect Japan, Israel and France will step in. This is a wonderful opening for them to get a foot in the door and sell their weapons and intelligence. In a game with this many moving pieces there are always reactions to any action.
The media is handling this story this morning incorrectly.
The denial of targeting information to Ukraine for objects inside Russia is largely insignificant because the explosives payloads were never large.
What DOES matter is the capacity for Russian forces to mass in given locale somewhat invisibly. Then the Ukraine forces cannot respond until it is far too late and advances have been secured.
If I were the Russians right now, I would not mass and make a charge, unopposed to, say, Odessa. They cannot trust the US deep state on this matter quite yet, but time will pass and their moles within the Ukraine military will be able to inform the Russian military if some batallion sized movement is being countered — or indeed the Russian assets in orbit could do the same thing. Test with a massing of forces and watch to see if there is no response.
Then . . . advances will be unopposed.
I looked at this. The UK’s first military satellite launched Sept 2024. Israel orbital assets are not numerous and concentrate entirely on their own enemies. Japan has nothing in orbit of military quality.
These are all low altitude vehicles and are thus overhead only about 10-13 mins. You have to have many following each other to get protracted observations.
People have not yet realized, but they will, that this is THE most important part of military aid witheld.
Obviously the people Putin killed in Ukraine, like those in Butcha can't.
This is great news who want to see Putin kill those in Ukraine, and weep over dead Russian troops.
Enjoy your victory. I'm sure Ronald Reagan is smiling on you.
You are so deeply invested in everything Putin pumps your way.
Got it, Ukraine provoked Russia.
Unbelievable.
Frankly, the only good thing Zenlensky did was ban the Orthodox church. Christianity has turned the West into a victim mentality culture.
I'm sure you have gotten the private f-off and die emails from, your fellow freepers.
It's like your neighbor come's running over asking to borrow your phone because his house is on fire, you respond I'll take Visa, Mastercard or 10% of your resources to help.
But the victim mentality culture was created and perpetuated by the anti-Christians.
The victim mentality culture is in direct opposition to Biblical doctrine.
Speaking of weak and strong—the weakest of the weak are those who deny the existence of truth and/or that we are able to access it.
I’m suspecting there has been a deal made between Trump and Putin about this. That’s the only explanation I can think of. Plus, the Starlink problems in the last few days.
Maybe Russia said “Before we can start seriously talking, stop assisting with these long range attacks.”
I won't deny there are good and strong Christians as individuals, but all-in-all it is what Nietzsche called "slave morality". It is a way for the weak to fight back against the strong by using manipulation and fear.
This is better than Excellent!!
This says that President Trump is aware that EU "Intelligence" Agencies, and Five Eyes are untrustworthy.
Hopefully, President Trump will punish them for a permanent reminder of what they have done when they Back stabbed the American People.
What this really means is that the Russians will be able to pound Ukrainian cities more successfully. The Ukrainians rely on US satellite intelligence for early warning of Russian air attacks, both to intercept those and to warn civilians to take shelter.
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