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The confusion around the reliability of the U.S. worsened this week, with reports that it temporarily cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine to put pressure on Kyiv to come to the negotiating table with Russia.
“There are a lot of whispers in the halls of NATO about the future of intelligence sharing within the alliance,” said Julie Smith, U.S. ambassador to NATO under Joe Biden until November, adding she had “heard concerns from some allies” on whether Washington will continue to share intel with the alliance.
According to Daniel Stanton, a former official at Canada’s foreign intelligence service CSIS, “at a time when they actually need more intelligence, there will be less going into it.”
“There’s less of a consensus about who the common enemy is” and “people are going to be more reticent to share,” Stanton said.
Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has also caused concern, said Gustav Gressel, an analyst at the National Defense Academy Vienna and former European Council on Foreign Relations fellow.
Gabbard has echoed Russian talking points over the wars in Ukraine and Syria, and she met with former Syrian President Bashar Assad, who had been isolated by the international community for his use of chemical weapons against his own citizens.
