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Why would a sovereign country, being attacked by a hostile neighbor, be required to inform ANYONE about their war plans? I wouldn't inform anyone, even my friends. They'll see it on the news, like everyone else.
And the operation turned out to be a complete success! Looks like a good strategy going forward.
Not one person on this entire site can tell me anyone should trust tRump in ANY situation, let alone one where he has leverage over you and interest in... your stuff. Expect more of this by the way; turns out when you're a constant asshole to everyone, nobody wants to be around you or rely on you, let alone offer to extend help in your direction. I'm honestly baffled what people fucking expected, only brainrotted simps believe in the real adult world, on the global stage, you can twist everyone's arms to get your way without consequence forever. And only tRump can't see this cause that's been his ENTIRE life: No consequences ever for being the absolute worst person regarding character and conduct.
Even if he weren’t a Russian simp, why would Ukraine tell anyone? An 18 month long attack is just tooo much invested to risk losing the surprise
Should have fed him a false location and then monitored Putin's move. Would have confidently proven that tRump is an asset if moves were made to the fake target. Trap this fucker and then public punishment!
Or maybe this op was withheld because they had already done that.
Hopefully, we don't hear about some intelligence agent with a new book coming out in the future regarding how tRump was a known asset for the Kremlin and how he was caught red-handed giving info to Putin in some false-flag operation.
Should have fed him a false location and then monitored Putin’s move.
Putin, the Saudis, Israel, FIFA...
Trump's White House possibly has the highest listening-devices-per-sqft of any office on the planet. I wonder if signal interference is a problem.
It works like Mr. Burns' immune system. Everyone is trying to listen in on Trump, but they step on each others toes and cancel out.
Star Fleet Intelligence also operates on this principle.
I can just see Putin, Saudis, Netanyahu sitting around a table bickering about who gets the best bandwidth from listening equipment at the oval office, because little children just refuse to share...
"Ukraine doesn't give intel to obvious Russkie mole"
Yeah, no shit
I would be more curious to know if there is anyone downstream of Trump working within the Pentagon/CIA that's still actively coordinating US intelligence with Ukranian forces.
Like, is the entire US military cut out of Ukrainian operations at the NATO level. Or is some faction within the Joint Chiefs pulling a SpaceX and giving Trump/Hegseth the Elon Musk busy-box while they run things outside his purview?
I would not tell Krasnov jack shit about any military operation.
Ukraine is a sovereign country, they don't need to tell Don anything.
Exactly. As a courtesy they might give trusted allies a few hours notice, or at least inform them when the op has started. But unless they needed the assistance of an ally in planning and preparing such an attack then informing anybody well ahead of time serves no useful purpose at all.
No US weaponry was used in this righteous attack either, literally no reason to put the US in the loop
There is nothing anyone should discuss with Cheeto, he is dumb and works for russians. There is absolutely no value in that person, he is a completely worthless useless being.
He's worse than worthless, he's actively harmful
You do not inform enemy agents of your secret military operations.
This first time I saw this headline I was like “YEAH, why would they???”
Why would anyone even consider telling any politicians of foreign nations about a top secret project like that, much less blabbermouths like Donald Trump?
I'd be surprised if Ukraine isn't feeding Trump false info to see if Russia reacts to it
Dont know about false, but a good mix of low priority targets.
"Deliberately blindsided" is a little strong. We're not even officially an ally of Ukraine. They don't owe us, or anyone else jack shit as far as their war plans for defending their country. Add to that the fact that Trump is credibly accused of being a Russian asset and defers to their interests 99% of the time... Why the fuck would you trust us right now!?
Between nations that share trust and respect, theoretically, it would give them time to reposition themselves to the coming reality, and perhaps more importantly, give any assets they have in the area a warning to keep their heads down/not step on any toes.
this has been planned long before TACO came into office. how about something is not about mUrICa?
Considering Trump is a Russian asset, that was a smart move to keep him out of the loop.
Oh, is that why it was such an effective attack?
They should feed the taco some fake intel, e.g. some abandoned shed in the middle of nowhere being a secret drone factory and if it gets obliterated the next day...
Good, thats what they should do
Probably sounds better in Ukrainian but "Operation Spider-web" is still fucking badass
Apparebtly, it is Операція "Павутиння"... it sounds pretty badass to me
Yeah you don't typically tell the enemy about your secret attack plans
As they should in the future as well.
LOOK AT THE FIREPLACE! No fake spray gold ornamentation! What the shit?!? Is the Oval Office a reality tv show set? Compare the fireplace from when Zelenskyy visited to Ramaphosa’s visit on May 25:
That’s some heinous Temu-quality decor! stay classy USA
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The u.s is not an ally to any of us, we have to purposely hide things from them or government and treat them as spies for Russia.
The US isn't even an ally to itself.
You do what you must when your life is on the line
And what you absolutely must do is not say a fuckin word to trump. Unless maybe you want him to pass disinformation to Putin.
What kind of twisted toxic argument is to phrase it like that and call it news?
As is appropriate.
I'm trying to recall a disco song from, I believe, the 1970s whose lyrics in the chorus went somewhat like the following - though I might be mistaken:
"That's the way uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh"
Why inform Putin's Bitch?
Guys they did the same for Biden. Sure, trump is Putins puppet but this is standard for such massive ops.
Plans love silence.
And it's never been truer. Doesn't even matter who sits in White House, strictly Ukrainian business that had to pass through as little ears as possible.
Was it because Trump didn’t say “thank you” after the last time Ukraine shared top secret war plans?