Confusion around the reliability of the United States has worsened this week, with information that it temporarily reduced information sharing with Ukraine to put pressure on Kyiv to come to the negotiation table with Russia.
“There is a lot of whispers in NATO’s corridors on the future of intelligence sharing within the Alliance,” said Julie Smith, US NATO ambassador under Joe Biden until November, adding that she had “heard some allies’ concerns” on the question of whether Washington will continue to share Intel with the Alliance.
According to Daniel Stanton, a former CSIS responsible for Canada’s foreign intelligence service, “at a time when they really need more information, there will be less things to be there.”
“There is less consensus on which is the common enemy” and “people will be more reluctant to share,” said Stanton.
Trump’s choice for national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard also aroused concern, said Gustav Gressel, analyst at the National Defense Academy Vienne and former member of the European Council for Foreign Relations.
Gabbard has echoed Russian discussion points on wars in Ukraine and Syria, and she met the former Syrian president Bashar Assad, who had been isolated by the international community for his use of chemical weapons against his own citizens.
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