Does Britain last without American information?

According to RCO News Agency, US media, in a statement, referring to President Donald Trump’s distance from its European allies, as well as the intertwining of Western intelligence agencies with American technologies and intelligence, examined details of the relationship.

Britain’s special relationship with the United States has been stressed in several areas during Trump’s presidency, but many national security experts believe that intelligence has remained the last stronghold of cooperation in the two countries.

However, in recent weeks there have been serious divisions. Trump ordered US intelligence not to be available to Ukraine last month; Neither through the US intelligence agencies, nor the members of the Fayo -Eiz security alliance or the five eyes. Mike Waltz then accidentally addressed a journalist to an interview in the signal messenger, which explicitly discussed US military operations in Yemen; What happens to the concern of current officials in maintaining government secrets.

While Trump’s decision to stop the exchange of information with Ukraine was condemned by Kiev’s European allies, Britain did not respond, and Prime Minister spokesman insisted that the defense, security and intelligence relationship with London with Washington “remained separately.”

However, current and former British intelligence officials who have served in various parts of the world, on the condition of anonymity, told Paltiko that the links between the British and US intelligence networks are so deep that it would be almost impossible to break or replace the US role.

But according to experts, despite the complex and intertwined nature of the relationship, if the United States continues to distance its old allies and global goals, the United Kingdom may have to plan for a scenario that was previously unimaginable.

Britain’s position as a relatively large power in the field of intelligence dates back to decades, with the formation of the Fayo -Eiz intelligence allies after World War II.

In the following years, joint operations and extensive regulatory activities of the alliance remained largely hidden until Edward Snowden, the US National Security Agency’s disclosure, revealed the nature of this cooperation by exposing more than 1.5 million classified documents.

Although Fayo Eis survived the disclosure, according to a former British intelligence official, it changed the disclosure of “some of the abilities and access” how to collect information and interact with technology companies with governments.

In the past decades, human intelligence collection by agents and intelligence sources under the supervision of FBI and the CIA in the United States and MI and MI 3 in the UK has declined somewhat, but in contrast, signal information that goes back to digital data has grown sharply.

According to an information source, automatic exchange and bulk digital information has become more important because of its scalable nature. “This cooperation is very deep and intertwined, and it will be very destructive,” he said. The UK still has valuable assets that matters to the United States, especially the stations. These stations, often outside the country, are used to monitor communications and detail their location, capacities and goals for confidential security reasons.

According to Neil Melvin, director of international security at the Royal United Service Institute, the vital data that these stations are gathering makes the United States easily out of the Fayo Isa Alliance. “For example, the Ios Nikolaeus station in Cyprus is very important to oversee the Mediterranean for the United States, especially because of Israel’s position,” he says.

If the United States leaves its intelligence alliance with Britain, he says, “it should not only replace the very expensive assets that Britain owns, but it should also re -re -insatiable its signal and intelligence bases on British soil.”

A member of the British intelligence community now operating in the private sector says hearing stations collect “huge amount of raw data” such as Internet traffic, telephone and radio, and then separate meaningful signals using artificial intelligence; For example, by identifying keywords, sounds or addresses.

Another former British security official explained that the regulatory responsibilities were divided between the United States and the United Kingdom, and this will share information: “Sometimes a day or a week is Britain, the next time is the US turn.”

Another former senior official in the British intelligence community, who worked closely with the American side, also noted that the signal information community is very coherent and integrated within the Fayo Isa framework. “Some are American equipment but are run by the British and vice versa,” he said. The same pattern also applies to Australia and Canada. “

The US refusal to share military intelligence with Ukraine has directly affected Kiev’s ability to confront Russia; Especially in the use of technologies that needed US information and data.

Ukraine’s ban on commercial satellite images used by the US government is also “very worrying”, according to a former British intelligence official. “The decision should be a serious shock for allies, but they all seem to ignore it,” the official says.

The official said Britain could help analyze satellite images that the US collects, but it is not capable of collecting them. However, the US information is “naturally stopped or resumed.”

Concerns about the consequences of leaving the American confidence circle are reminiscent of long-standing concerns about Washington’s possibility of influence in American F-5 fighters. There has always been a concern that the United States could disrupt these fighters through some kind of “disabled switch”. Trump also recently spoke of these concerns, saying that the F-5 fighter, which is available to US allies, may be about 5 percent weaker than American fighters, as they may be back to the United States someday.

On the other hand, Paltiko reports that much of the United States has been financed by the United States. It has been supported by the development of dual (military and civilian) technologies for the US and other Fayo Isa members.

“If the United States is interested in one of the British patents today, it would easily buy it,” a former British intelligence official said. He also added that the US advanced defense research project agency directs the UK universities directly and commits the project.

While Britain has lost part of its indigenous talents due to massive US investment, London has taken several conservation tactics to preserve technology even against its close allies.

In February, the British government allowed the sale of a maritime defense system to an American engineering company, but this was met with conditions; Including the appointment of a British security manager and security manager and maintaining government powers to require companies to support national defense and security if needed. However, the integration of US companies into the British defense, intelligence and civilian infrastructure is widespread, and sometimes without conservation measures.

Cooperation of large US companies with the United Kingdom include the provision of the British rural areas by the Starlink satellites owned by Ilan Musk. In addition, the British Defense Department has a contract with Endoriel’s American Defense Technology Start; British intelligence agencies use the services of the US Palantier Company, and the British State Communications Headquarters has signed a contract with Amazon in year 6 to store its cloud data.

“Britain for decades has considered this integration of American technology as a clever cooperation because it believed that the relationship between the two countries was more reliable and more reliable than the London and the European Union, but that was a mistaken notion,” says a former intelligence official.

The presence of US companies in the UK is not a new issue, but the political and ideological nature of technology billionaires associated with the Trump administration has raised concerns in some British intelligence circles, Paltiko reports. According to a member of the British intelligence community, Ilan Mask’s interest in influencing British and European policies is evident.

He warns that American technologies should be removed from the UK systems, even if it is costly, because in the United States a system of oligarchy and authoritarianism is created in the heart of people like a mask.

People who have closely involved intelligence cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States see the change in US approach to Russia as the biggest threat to London. Neil Melvin of the Royal United Society’s School of Services told Paltiko that stopping information with Ukraine was a “serious warning” for US intelligence allies, adding: “We have not yet entered the crisis, but a new level of caution has emerged in these relationships.”

However, the British government has so far refused to criticize Trump. “In government structures, there is still a lot of resistance to accepting the fact that trust in the United States has been lost,” says a former British intelligence official. Some still hope to restore trust, limit damage, and pretend that nothing happened. But the truth is that this has happened. ” Sources told Paltiko that London should have the best scenarios, but prepare itself for the worst.

However, the US withdrawal from the current international order provides an opportunity for the UK to take the role of leadership. Although Britain is not financially capable of competing with the United States, it is still respected in Europe, on the contrary of Washington, which has lost much of its credibility.

“Throughout the northern Europe and Eastern Europe, US credibility has been destroyed,” said a former intelligence official who has worked with NATO. There is no longer an old NATO; there is no longer; Not to be declining, but there is no longer. “The only country that can take place in the United States is Britain, in the eyes of the majority of NATO member states.”

The UK is already strengthened by NATO’s relations and holds almost weekly meetings with France on the future of Ukraine and European defense capabilities.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stressed that the United States is still active in NATO; But recent developments have shown that this situation may not last. Now the UK has to answer the question of whether it can be a replacement for the United States.

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