Posted on 11/11/2025 9:19:23 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America.
For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized.
The intelligence was typically sent to Joint Interagency Task Force South, a task force stationed in Florida that includes representatives from a number of partner nations and works to reduce the illicit drug trade.
But shortly after the US began launching lethal strikes against the boats in September, however, the UK grew concerned that the US might use intelligence provided by the British to select targets. British officials believe the US military strikes, which have killed 76 people, violate international law, the sources said. The intelligence pause began over a month ago, they said.
The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said last month that the strikes violate international law and amount to “extrajudicial killing.” The UK agrees with that assessment, the sources told CNN.
The British embassy in Washington and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. A Pentagon official told CNN that the department “doesn’t talk about intelligence matters.”
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To the UK: It’s not illegal. Stop your whining.
To the drug runners: You will continue to be targeted, regardless.
Sure let the drugs and the illegals come in.
Tell the boat people they have free protected passage to the UK.
That’s fine. High time we pimp slapped that backwards little grifting Islamic country that speaks a minority dialect of English.
“Maybe the UK doesn’t want to upset the “Asians” living there, “
Maybe they are afraid the cartels will start targeting some of the islanders.
It would be too bad if some UK assets got mixed up while on mission due to this drop in sharing?
We aint forgot about you guys lying about what our President said on TV so you better tread lightly.
UK is still on the shit list!
The UK seems to be wrong on every issue these days, both foreign and domestic. It doesn’t matter what the issue is.
So this latest news doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Wanna bet the UK’s Deep State has been in league with the narcos all along...
The populace isn’t siding with the drug traffickers.
Their Deep State is siding with the traffickers.
The US needs to cut the UK loose.
Politicization of intel sharing on narcotics smuggling
Despicable
This would be the time to move on the Faulklands if they are going to.
Does this mean our “special relationship” with Londonstan is over?
Don’t worry, Cuz. The ones in the Channel are your responsibility.
Grok:
October 28, 1971
The last (and only) time the UK launched a satellite from a UK rocket was the Prospero X-3 satellite, deployed by the Black Arrow R3 rocket from Woomera Launch Area 6 in Australia. Prospero, a 66 kg Earth observation and technology demonstration satellite, was the UK’s first and only successful orbital mission using a domestically developed launcher. The Black Arrow program, initiated in the 1960s, aimed for independent access to space but was canceled shortly after this flight due to budget cuts, despite its success.
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