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Trump cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine [1]
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Date: 2025-03-05
The traitorous treachery just keeps on coming. I was just guessing that it was about satellite photos and targeting information for ATACMS, and then I read a Washington Post article that said exactly what I was thinking.
It prevents the long range attacks inside Russian territory with missiles and drones.
Once again, Trump is sucking up to Putin. How much more damage can Trump do?
This is being called a "pause," just like the arms and financial aid has been "paused."
Everything was Trump starts out as a pause and then it becomes permanent. He's already going to make it permanent. He just uses the pause option to cover his actions, until it's too late for an "unpause" to do anything.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed the move on Wednesday. So now Ukraine is not only going to not receive weapons from the United States, but it won't get targeting information for the ones that it already has. Ratcliffe said that the pauses would go away as soon as Zelensky said he was ready for peace. I don't believe him.
I think Zelensky will say that he wants peace and they'll still stop sending weapons and intelligence information, because if he wants peace, why would he need them?
The administration did not say when the sharing had stopped, or if there was any information still being disseminated at all.
The Washington Post story also related how a battery of the HIMARS missile system had not been getting targeting information beyond 40 miles of a Ukraine/Russia line of battle for at least a month.
A Ukrainian officer said without intelligence, Russian troops could regroup to attack.
"This would not only be a betrayal of a key ally who the IC (intelligence community) spent a decade in helping resist Russian aggression, it also will have tangible effects across all of our global liaison relationships. We will simply not be trusted as a partner," said retired CIA case officer Marc Polymeropoulos.
The damage to the United States image to our military partners is incredibly consequential. What this allows to happen is a Russian victory. There won't be a peace process needed.
The other factor to be assessed is whether Starlink is going to keep operating in Ukraine. With the pause in aid, pause in intelligence, the last lynchpin would be Starlink getting turned off, or "paused." Musk already did it one time over Crimea so that Ukraine couldn't use their amphibious drones to hit Russian ships. If Musk turns off Starlink, a Russian victory is all but assured. It seems that this is what Trump wants. The reasons Trump makes up, like Zelensky not showing respect and not wanting peace, are simply covers to allow Putin to win.
For this news to come out after Trump has already made his speech is highly suspect. Had Congress known about it yesterday, the Democratic response would have been an order of magnitude worse.
Krasnov strikes again.
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