The Trump administration has paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine on top of the suspension of military aid as part of an effort to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to pursue peace talks with Russia.
The intelligence pause has had an immediate effect on Ukraine’s war effort since it has relied on US intelligence for tracking Russian troops, and it’s required for firing US-provided HIMARS rocket systems.
A US official told Axios that the pause on intelligence sharing was focused on information that Ukraine could use to launch attacks inside Russian territory, operations that have risked provoking a direct clash between the US and Russia.
White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz suggested that the pause on both intelligence sharing and military aid could be lifted once peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are set.
“I think if we can nail down these negotiations and move towards these negotiations and, in fact, put some confidence building measures on the table, then the president will take a hard look at lifting this pause,” Waltz said. “We have to know that both sides are sincerely negotiating towards a partial, then permanent, peace.”
On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Oval Office argument he had with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance was “regrettable” and insisted he was ready to work toward peace. Zelensky also said he was ready to sign the economic deal with the US that would give the US access to revenues from Ukraine’s rare earth minerals and other natural resources.
The Axios report said that the pause on intelligence sharing was the key issue that motivated Zelensky to put out the statement. But so far, Zelensky’s comments haven’t been enough for the US to resume weapons shipments and intelligence support.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe suggested that the US could soon resume supporting the war. He said the pause “will go away, and we will work with Ukraine shoulder to shoulder as we have to push back on the aggression that is there but to put the world at a better place for this peace negotiations to move forward.”
Again, this shouldn't matter. The Ukraine Apologist corps have repeatedly assured us that this war is being fought BY Ukrainians FOR Ukrainians, WITH nothing but Ukrainian weapons, intel, guts, heart, and resolve making ALL the difference.
That the Russian Federation badly underestimated how Ukraine could manage & supply 100% of its own needs in this fight.
That NATO money, equipment, weapons, and intelligence resources were welcome, ultimately completely insignificant donations that are not in ANY WAY the only thing keeping Ukraine "winning".
Yessir, absent American weapons and intelligence, Ukraine should be on track to win this thing up to 88% faster than before. If it's still being fought by Orthodox Easter, then something's wrong with Easter !
Of course, that’s all part of Zelensky’s ‘Victory Plan’.
Only thing is that Orthodox & Catholic Easter both coincide on 20 April this year.
Just wonder if Zelensky will force the Orthodox not to celebrate? Maybe he’ll just remove the entire day from the calendar?
If he can do that, I’d bet he’ll also remove 28 February which really wasn’t that Good a Friday for him.
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Easter’s on 4/20 ? There’s something truly adorable about that.
4/20 day. I celebrate it every year. Along with all the other days of the year.
I just celebrated myself…. Breakfast bowl, best bowl of the day!… ;-}
I don't 'wake and bake'. I'd never get anything done. 😉
Jesus came out of the tomb puffing on a doob.
Jesus is coool!
The shortest word in Aramaic is the same as in English :
” ‘ere ! “
You're unbelievable
Great argument. You’re a pro.
I understand your point, but it is a fact that Putin badly underestimated Ukraine's resolve and ability to fight. Remember, nobody starts a war with the assumption that it'll be long and bloody… and this has turned into a long and bloody war. I'm sure Putin's plan was to finish it in a few weeks, which means he bungled it very badly.
And as my wry comment alluded to, I’m sure Putin did not expect NATO to intervene so heavily, directly, and overtly as it has to ensure that Ukraine had far more of a fighting chance than it would have on its own.
Probably not. But Putin's desperate desire to not escalate the war into a confrontation with NATO is actually what allowed NATO to escalate the weapons deliveries, finally culminating in F-16s and long range missiles targeting Russian territory.
IMO, he should have been ruthless from the start. When Boris Johnson sabotaged the peace deal at the very beginning of the war, Putin should have exploded a nuke very high above Kiev and told Zelensky and his western backers, "F*ck with us and the next one will be at ground level." Maybe I'm crazy but I think it would have ended the war very fast and avoided 3 years of terrible bloodshed. Instead, he's allowed NATO to run rampant and Zelensky even occupied a chunk of Russia. And we're still in danger of this whole fiasco ending in WWIII.
I am inclined to agree; but a self-imposed weakness of Putin and the Russian Federation's warfighting ethos was to regard average Ukrainians as extended family, and fight in such a way as to minimise harm and discomfort for Ukraine's civilian population across that entire country.
I think that prevented the RF from prosecuting this war American Shock & Awe style – destroying all infrastructure, power generation, water & sanitation, leave the Ministry of Oil building intact, break all roads and bridges and rail lines, plunge the nation into cold darkness. The RF took the war almost exclusively to the Ukrainian Military and didn't cripple the country supporting it.
I totally agree. But a total war from the onset was impossible, Russians and Ukrainians share a common language, culture, religion, and history.
It would be like Trump unleashing shock and awe on Canada to make it the 51st state. I don't think Americans would stand for such an attack on Canadians.
But it’s OK if it’s Arabs, seemingly.
Sarcasm, but there's a truth there. Yes, to many it is perfectly "OK" to bomb the fuck out of "Arabs" (an indiscriminate term including actual Arabs, Iranians, Somalis, Berbers, Turcomen, and Afghans of any ethnicity, including men, women, children, goats, and camels) because "9/11", and now "Oct 7". They are perfectly willing to forcibly silence anyone objecting to the bombing of Gaza, yet they are horrified by the far milder "Putin's murderous campaign against Ukrainian civilians".
What can I say? People be stoopid.
Racism of course, but also they consider Russia as an enemy. Spreading every kind of vicious lies about Russia is normal both in America and in Europe.
Maybe; but most Arabs, all Iranians, most Afghans and many Berbers are ethnically "white"; so that's a little simplistic. I mean, they are at least as "white" as most Jews are; but somehow they are "different" and their deaths don't matter. I've never understood it.
Then maybe better to call it Nazism. Anyway they don't belong to what in earlier times they called "Golden Billion". People of Third World countries.
I would call it bigoted ignorance, which as I said I find incomprehensible. But whatever; it certainly is real.
But it increasingly is attacking infrastructure almost like the US in Iraq.
Attacks on infrastructure, which is vital to support a country's war effort, is perfectly standard military doctrine, for everyone.
The UK "air warriors" who founded the RAF were all about "dehousing the civilian population" to "destroy their morale", long before the first shot was fired in WW2.
Good points except that an airburst nuke will kill a lot more people than the same nuke triggered at the ground. Maybe if it was really small and set off almost in space it would be as you described.
Of course in space. An airburst nuke would destroy the city.
Putin wanted to win hearts and minds in Ukraine and didn’t want to fight Ukraine like it had Chechnya.
He also needed support in Russia and couldn’t mobilize more of the economy easily.
And yet he ended up with fighting much worse than in Chechnya. Which is why I keep saying, Putin bungled it spectacularly.
I guess Machiavelli warned against hesitation, worse than a mistake.
"Putin should have exploded a nuke very high above Kiev"
That would have almost certainly brought China into the war on the side of Ukraine. To the extent that the Chinese regime values its reputation for sticking to agreements, its placement of Ukraine under its nuclear defense umbrella in the 90s, reaffirmed in the 2000s, would have required it to openly remind Putin (rather than privately as has likely happened in real life) that the threatened "ground level" burst would result in the disappearance of Moscow from the face of the planet.
"That would have almost certainly brought China into the war on the side of Ukraine."
No, it wouldn't. The Chinese know who their enemies are. Russia isn't one of them these days.
You are engaging in wishful thinking here.
No, just engaged in the assumption that Xi doesn’t want to be seen as a waffling, flip-flopping wuss, especially when it comes to the foundation of world nuclear detente.
You were in the military. Remember what they would tell you about assumptions?
There is no "world nuclear detente", not anymore. America ripped up all the agreements pertaining to nuclear weapons.
And just pause for a minute to think about what you're saying. The Russians explode a nuke as a warning to NATO without killing any Ukrainians, the Chinese respond by nuking Moscow. You really need meds if you think this scenario is realistic.
You must be insane. China nuking Moscow? Then Beijing gets nuked too. And for what, to defend America's puppet! SMH
China won't nuke Moscow because Moscow won't nuke Kyiv. That's the deal. It's what "nuclear umbrellas" and Mutual Assured Destructions are all about.
The US jumped in with Starlink. That was big early on. It was the US and NATO helping that made a big difference.
Putin was surprised by the lack of sympathy for Russia among Ukrainians in “Russian-leaning” regions.
Trump ramps up intelligence sharing with Russia.
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His double talk skills are impressive.
That's what I'm talking about, the entire administration, starting with Trump himself, suffers from cognitive dissonance. Pity Russian analysts trying to make sense of it all.
I think, Ratcliffe is right here. The pause can't be too long.
Not the point I’m referring to.
He wants Ukraine to take territory, perhaps all of it, before negotiations. That’s insanity.
And if Ukraine falls to Russia trump will claim he knew nothing about the USA lack of actions.
Coming to terms with Russia, realizing the lost territories are really lost, ending the war, demobilizing and starting reconstruction doesn't seem like "falling to Russia", it seems like a Win for the Ukrainian people.
Of course, the press gangs running around Ukraine kidnapping more cannon fodder will have to find real work, but one can't have everything
Sounds like Z needs another hug from Kier Sturmer.
Sounds like Trump needs another hug from Putin.
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The "Russia Hoax" was put to rest on November 5.
The fascist Trump dictatorship began on November 5.
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Idiot. Trump wasn't sworn in until January 20.
2024 US elections – Tuesday 5 November 2024
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I think he meant November 5 was when Putin magically rigged the election… probably by using some secret brain-wave weapon or something such to brainwash 77 million Americans who voted for Trump.
Yes. He has a Secret Magic Brain-Wave Weapon, and he uses it for THAT ? Convince Trump's GISS Army to do what they were already going to do ?
Not use the Weapon to, say, convince every person in Ukraine to surrender; or convince every NATO officer to kill themselves ?
Or get the Academy to vote the Best Picture Oscar to a movie that more than 100 people have actually seen and that is actually a good movie for a change ? Focus it on Musk and have Elon admit out loud that the CyberTruck is indeed a 4-wheeled practical joke ?
Maybe orchestrate Soundgarden voted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame before the White f**king Stripes are even a nomination consideration ???
General Ripper was right, fluoride in water was a commie plot to sap our purity of essence… and Putin was behind it all. Or maybe he reactivated the Russian Woodpecker, has anyone checked on that lately? Spooky radio waves making people cast spooky ballots.
So, "just sit at the negotiating table and we'll resume weapons delivery and intelligence sharing"?! And that'll somehow incentivize Zelensky to end the war? I have a feeling that nobody in the administration, Trump foremost, has any kind of realistic and viable plan. In fact, no plan at all. Still, this is all better than Biden's plan which was WWIII.
Yesterday former Russian president Medvedev (at the moment he is Deputy Chairman of Russian Security Council) said that he believes U.S. will resume arms shipments to Kiev after the rare-earth deal is signed. I agree with that. The deal will be signed soon and the arms shipments could be even increased. At least until Trump get some agreement with Putin.
No more sharing?! No more caring!…
The Big Fool keeps digging. I'm sure his great friend, Vlad, understands, coz they've been through a lot together
No sharing?! No caring!…
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/us-cuts-intel-and-aid-to-ukraine
"Just consider how bad it’s gotten: the German government hates its citizens so much it is fighting to keep its own sabotaged energy systems from being restarted:
What level of upside-down, Black Mirror-esque dystopia is that? It is simply inconceivable that a political union grounded in such overt bad faith leadership, and in such ideological contradiction to its own populace, can possibly survive for much longer; we are simply reaching peak levels of cruelly inhuman rule by ‘leaders’ who hate their own citizens, and view them merely as inconvenient obstacles toward monomaniacal geopolitical obsessions."
The WEF and the Deagle Report come to mind.
The "EU Administration" in Brussels is a parasite sucking the blood out of Europe; joining the other parasite, NATO. Between the two of them, and their endless demands for money and increased authority over the lives of normal citizens, I don't know how why the average European puts up with it. "They can vote, the EU is a democracy", except, as we see in Romania, and Austria, and Germany, and France, it is NOT. The will of many millions of their people, expressed at the ballot box, is simply ignored; their "leaders" proudly announce their intent to "refuse to engage" with the winners, forming "coalitions of the Losers" to override the will of the more popular winners, their opinions are shouted down and denounced, and the bureaucrats do whatever the heck they want.
Worst, most despicable example by far is the UK, which despite its people voting for autonomy and freedom from the EU, and a revolving door of Prime Ministers expected to implement that choice, is becoming even more tightly slavish to the Brussels bureaucrats.
F Europe. A cynical, pragmatic leader would see that there are FAR MORE advantages to alignment with BRICS. Let the europeans rot like the diseased corpse they are.
I am watching Turkey. Erdogan is a pretty odious piece of trash, but I believe he is seriously considering the idea of dumping Europe and NATO for tighter alignment with BRICS.
Europe's triumvirate of Macron, Starmer, and Merz will engineer a nuclear exchange with Russia.
Few Europeans will wager their success. A dead bettor rarely collects.
Should the US not directly participate or offer 'ancillary services,' people will praise the wonders of Donald Trump's intellect with America physically unscathed. Perhaps three major European cities will lie in ruin.
The Russians (SVR) have those European leaders monitored 24/7. It's that serious.
Nobody is talking about the massive Ukrainian advances in Toretsk
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Giving targeting data to Ukraine for strikes on Russia is an act of war. Russia has been very patient with America hoping for a curtailment of hostilities.
It is a proxy war but quite a ferocious one
Thank you President Trump!
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Yikes, state media in Ukraine just called for the assassination of our President Trump.
Perhaps it is time for America to join the fight against the fascist Ukrainian Banderite government.
There are 500,000 Ukrainians in America many of whom are illegal.
There are quite a few Ukrainian foreign agents in America.
President Trump just revoked the legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians in America.
Hopefully Secret service is up to the task of protecting our government officials.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/