Ukraine Deliberately Blindsided Trump Before Massive Drone Attack on Russia

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-deliberately-blindsided-trump-before-massive-drone-attack-on-russia/

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  1. President Donald Trump was deliberately left in the dark about Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strike in Russia on Sunday, which destroyed nearly a third of the Kremlin’s strategic bomber fleet in a surprise attack.

    The White House however has declined to comment on the attack—with an administration source confirming to NewsNation on Sunday that Trump was not informed about the operation before it had taken place.

    While no official reason has been given for the snub, it comes just months after the U.S. announced it would stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine unless progress was made on peace talks. Trump’s longtime fondness for Vladimir Putin and public dislike of Zelensky is also likely a key factor in Kyiv’s reluctance to share information with the President.

    Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-deliberately-blindsided-trump-before-massive-drone-attack-on-russia/).

  3. That’s what you call strategic planning and leadership.

    Or in this case, common sense.

  4. Trump doesn’t need to know everything. And he would have bitched and moaned Ukraine into stopping if he did know.

  5. Trump would’ve warned Putin ahead of time. Trump is a Russian asset.

  6. Ukraine knows that sharing info with trump and his gang is the same as directly handing intel to Putin.

  7. Hey guess what, I would bet real money our allies are holding back intelligence from us, because the clown at the top cannot be trusted not to sell them out. TACO Don’s for sale and everyone knows it.

  8. I bet Ukraine provided him with misinformation to see what he did with it. They know more than they are letting on, but this all alone is telling.

  9. Trump would have called putin in a heart beat if Ukraine gave Trump a heads up. 

  10. Fucking good. We can’t seem to shake the Russian asset off our backs but at least the rest of the world can keep him in the dark.

  11. You don’t share military plans with your enemies. The US is no ally to Ukraine and they’re acting appropriately. Wouldn’t be surprising if Russia has plenty of people in the executive branch.

  12. I think Zelensky just threw “the cards” in tRump’s face.

  14. Give me 1 good reason why Ukraine was supposed to give Russia a heads up?

  15. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukraine leaked info to USA on purpose to see if it made its way to Russia.

  16. Should have warned Trump of the wrong site so Putin would have been misinformed.

  18. Trump Repeats Allies Secrets Happily or better known as Trump TRASH.

  20. Zelensky personally oversaw the secret planning of this attack for a year and a half.

    And he had to sit there in that Oval Office meeting and listen to putin’s puppets berate him about not being thankful enough and not having cards to play.

    But he knew something they didn’t…

  21. Ukraine has significantly better OpSec than the DoD under Pete Kegsbreath.

  22. It would have been like telling the head of Pakistan about the Bin Laden raid.

  23. one of the major reasons why it turned out to be so successful

  24. Well yea. Trump is a Russian asset. I wouldn’t tell him shit

  25. Ukraine is not resisting a fascist invasion to fuck with Trump.

    They didn’t blindside him, they did their thing and didn’t think telling Putin’s BFF in advance was a good idea but because of course it wasn’t.

  26. I mean, the US government has made it clear it no longer wants to support Ukraine, so they are just acting accordingly. They also took notes from that Oval Office ambush in February. The Trump admin shouldn’t be surprised or upset by this.

  27. Blindsiding someone who doesn’t go to all their presidential meetings, and is out golfing all the time, is easy.

  28. It’s Ukraines War and not Trumps. Good for them! Trump would have leaked it anyways!

  30. One can easily argue that there was no need to advise America since the attack was conducted without use of American resources. Did Ukraine advise it’s other allies in advance? To my best knowledge they did not.

  31. It’s not blindsiding. It’s common sense.

    Why would you even CONSIDER telling the man owned by Putin that you were planning an attack against Putin’s forces?

  32. >Drones were smuggled deep into Russia in wooden crates on the back of trucks, which were later opened remotely, allowing the drones to take off. Among the targets hit was the Belaya air base in Russia’s far-east Irkutsk region, located more than 2,500 miles away from Ukraine.

    Two thoughts:

    1. That’s genius

    2. A terrifying new tactic for war crimes has just been found

  33. Zelensky must have been giddy as fuck sitting there in the Oval Office getting dressed down and told he doesn’t have the cards when he personally knew he was about to take out 1/3 of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.

    Almost like Obama at the WHCA dinner knowing OBLs life was about to be snuffed out.

  34. Tell Trump = Telling Putin.

    This plan was 18 months in the making and nothing about it leaked. Absolutely unbelievable. Way to go Ukraine, keep on kicking Russia’s ass.

  35. Trump shouldn’t be mad about this. He just said last week, “This isn’t my war. This is Biden’s war, Zelensky his war and Putin’s war. This isn’t Trump’s war”. No need to inform him then.

    I mean, unless he’s Putin’s puppet. But no, that couldn’t be true, right??

  37. Why would they give Putin’s stooge advance notice? So he could rat them out??

  38. You don’t share critical military intelligence with the asset of your enemy.

  39. >While no official reason has been given for the snub, it comes just months after the U.S. announced it would stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine unless progress was made on peace talks. Trump’s longtime fondness for Vladimir Putin and public dislike of Zelensky is also likely a key factor in Kyiv’s reluctance to share information with the President.

    >Following the strike, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to reiterate Trump’s call for peace between the two nations, Axios reported on Sunday. Both Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet in Istanbul on Monday to engage in peace talks.

    It’s almost like no one trusts magno Mussolini.

  40. They should have sent trump a pack of cards with drones as the hearts and different Russian planes as face cards.

  41. As a US ally, you’d have to be an idiot to tell Trump about plans to attack Russia. Trump would immediately get on the phone with Putin and tell him everything.

  42. opsec.

    Something Trump doesn’t understand. He loves blabbing secrets, he loves showing his superiority by letting people know that he knows more than they do.

    He thinks he’s being subtle too. I could easily imagine him saying something like “Trust me, Russia shouldn’t be depending on their air force. I can’t say anything, but something big is coming. All the planes are going to be destroyed. They’ll have nothing. They won’t see it coming, believe me, there’s no way they’ll know, but it’s gonna be huge.”

    He doesn’t even need to knowingly be a Russian agent, he does their work anyway just by being Trump.

  43. Don’t use the word “blindsided”. Not appropriate in this case – they simply kept a military secret from one of Russias top agents.

  44. People need to remember that in 2018, seven GOP senators were in Russia for Fourth of July.

    Republicans have been colluding with Russia at minimum since Trump first got elected

  45. I wouldn’t heap too much praise on Ukraine simply for not conducting its planning sessions for this operation on *Signal* and inviting a *Russia Today* or *Fox News* correspondent into the chat…

    I mean, it would take an unimaginable level of incompetence and criminal stupidity to do such a thing, and I can’t think of one country that would do so!

  46. The title is misleading.

    Ukraine does not owe Trump that information. It’s on a ‘need to know’ basis.

    Trump was not blindsided, he’s just a bystander.

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