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Trump ORDERS UK Not to Share Intel with Ukraine [1]
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Date: 2025-03-05
I didn’t believe this when I first saw it, so I checked several British media.
Express: Trump deals Zelensky another blow as UK banned from sharing US intel with Ukraine
The Sun: Trump ‘BANS Britain from sharing war intelligence with Ukraine’ after US aid axed – and may let UK take LEAD of Nato
London Economic: Donald Trump bans UK from sharing any US military intelligence with Ukraine
It is now being reported that all UK intelligence agencies and military outlets have received explicit orders forbidding them from sharing US-generated intel with Ukraine.
And apparently it applies to other Five Eyes nations, too:
Western nations such as the UK, New Zealand and Australia would have shared this information with Ukraine in the past, but are now unable to do so.
Canada — the only one of the Five Eyes not mentioned — appears not to be under the same order, but they had already started shifting their intel arrangements: Canada looks to shift intelligence sharing from U.S. as Washington diverges on foreign affairs (Feb 25, 2025).
Trump’s authority extends only to the intelligence that the US gathered and supplied to these countries, but intel is somewhat fungible and it can be hard to separate out. So no intel at all is likely to be given to Ukraine now. This is Trump’s way of bullying not just Ukraine but our closest allies. (Well, they used to be, up until a month ago.)
Ukraine needs this intel to plan troop movements and missile and drone strikes. But it goes in the other direction, too: The US needs intel from these countries to spot and head off terrorist attacks on our nation. How much longer will the UK share its intel with us, and how much longer before they decide that allying with the US under Trump isn’t worth the humiliation and abuse. Bet that didn’t occur to the Tumescent Traitor, but I’m sure Putin thought of it.
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