Exclusive: U.S. Won’t Share Invasion Intel With Ukraine -- Eli Lake, Daily Lake
American spies have spotted all the signs of an all-out Russian invasion of Ukraine. Why won’t they tell the Ukrainians about the forces on their border?
U.S. intelligence agencies now have detailed information that Russia has amassed the kind of forces needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But the Obama administration hasn’t shared with Ukraine the imagery, intercepts, and analysis that pinpont the location of the Russian troops ready to seize more Ukrainian land, The Daily Beast has learned.
President Obama has repeatedly and publicly expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian people—and warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin that there will be consequences if he takes over any more Ukrainian territory. Yet Obama’s administration has so far been reluctant to hand over the kind of intelligence the Ukrainians could use to defend themselves. U.S. officials and members of Congress briefed on the crisis in Ukraine tell The Daily Beast that senior U.S. military officers have been instructed to refrain from briefing their Ukrainian counterparts in detail about what the United States knows about the Russians troops amassing on the border.
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Update: U.S. accuses Russian agents of stirring eastern Ukraine unrest -- Reuters
My Comment: Say one thing publicly .... do the opposite in private .... so much for U.S. policy on Ukraine. But I concur with Eli Lake's analysis that the positioning of Russian MASH units near the Ukraine border is worrisome .... it is a red flag on Russian intentions. The only question that still needs to be answered is .... has Russian President Putin made the decision to go into Ukraine? My gut is telling me no.
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I don't have any idea if Putin intends to go or not, but Jeez this administration and these pundits are something. Put yourself in Putin's place, you've heard now for weeks how much importance analysts place on the appearance of MASH units. First the Russians weren't going to be in the Crimea because "no MASH", now they're going in because there "are MASH". All Putin has to do is show them what they are looking for and it's case closed. The Russians have got to be laughing. I know this was long and windy, but really!
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