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Consistent with his plan to end the war in Ukraine by having Russia win it, Donald Trump has now ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to stop giving information to Ukraine on targets the Ukrainian military can hit. This follows an earlier decision by Trump to stop supplying weapons Congress has mandated to go to Ukraine. He clearly does want to end the war—by letting Russia win. We have no inside information on how the Norwegian Nobel Committee decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize, but our guess is helping a dictator conquer a peaceful democracy probably isn't the path to glory.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed the cutoff on Fox yesterday. He said the pauses might end after Volodymyr Zelenskyy had groveled in the dust and kissed Trump's high-heel shoes for a sufficiently long time, although he worded it slightly differently. The cutoff of intel is a complete reversal of Biden administration policy, in which the U.S. provided Ukraine with real-time information about where to send missiles and drones right now. Absent this information, Ukraine will have much less ability to hit Russia where it hurts.
European officials understand that they now have the responsibility of filling the gap, but they don't have nearly as much capability to obtain and transmit useful data in real time. Creating that ability won't be easy or fast. (V)