France is offering intelligence to Ukraine, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Thursday, a day after Washington said it was suspending intelligence sharing with Kyiv, an effort to step up pressure on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
I anticipate Rubio will try to lean on Macron to change their tune. I do not expect the tactic to work. I do expect the French to (rightly) tell us to fuck off in an interesting and amusing way.
Would think UK to have a number of imaging satellites of their own, but would they be able to share via France without US discovering and thereby jeopardising UK’s current diplomatic position as the bridge with the US.
It seems plausible to me that UK and France agreed to play a good cop/bad cop face of Europe.
Yeah to not show all their hands would be a good play on their part even though the general population might be screaming for more transparency of collaboration.
So, Actual Freedom Fries now then?
Fries are Belgian actually.
It is a fucked up time we live when we all have to agree the French are right
Americans inherited British propaganda and gladly perpetuate it, despite France being the country they probably owe the most to.
It’s great. However, from the french ministère des armées Link I count 3 types of satellites for a grand total around 8 including two dedicated to satcom. (assuming this is up to date, and that all informations are public) It’s not a bad number of a “medium-sized nation” but unless other European nation have the same capacities it’s definitely not enough to provide 24/7 intelligence to Ukraine
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This could be an important move, since Ukraine does not have satellites of its own currently.
Ukraine has been relying on US and commercial satellites to monitor Russian activity in areas where drones cannot reach, or where they cannot communicate.
Commanded by the Trump administration, the US military recently stopped sharing intelligence data with Ukraine. Commercial data tends to have a higher latency and lower resolution, so I think Ukrainians will highly appreciate French assistance.
Ukraine should immediately sign a precious metals contract with France.
