Clint Watts: A Lot of the Intelligence That Was Coming to Ukraine Likely Came from a Mix of NATO, the EU and the U.S.

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WITT: “So the administration paused sending military supplies and sharing intelligence with Ukraine this week. How specifically does this hurt Ukraine’s war efforts? Let’s focus more on the intelligence. I mean, obviously, if they’re not getting the military supplies they need, we can figure out how that affects it. But intelligence wise, what happens without the us help?”

WATTS: “Yeah, I think Ukraine becomes very limited to whatever is mostly what we would call tactical or operational intelligence on the battlefield, things that they know may be a little bit of regional intelligence, but on a grand scale, not really understanding what Russia is doing or vis a vis the allies and partners. A lot of the intelligence that was coming to Ukraine likely comes from a mix of NATO, the EU and the us. Us being the dominant player in all that much more, you know, capable, much more types of intelligence that would go to Ukraine. So it would limit things like broad based targeting, understanding situations on the battlefield puts them in a much more defensive posture and really relying only on the sensors that they have. Just looking forward, that would really handicap their ability to really take on any sort of more aggressive action like we’ve seen over the last six months vis a vis Russia. All of this seems to be a play to try and get Ukraine to the negotiation table, have the tariffs sort of claims by President Trump on the Russians. Same thing on the Russian side trying to really force a peace agreement in a very rapid period of time.”