Does Britain last without American information?
The British -American ielligence relationship, once a spine of Western security cooperation, is now exposed to unprecedeed shakes with Trump’s policies and the stopping of information with Ukraine.
According to RCO News Agency, US media, in a stateme, referring to Preside Donald Trump’s distance from its European allies, as well as the iertwining of Western ielligence agencies with American technologies and ielligence, 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 ielligence has remained the last stronghold of cooperation in the two couries.
However, in rece weeks there have been serious divisions. Trump ordered US ielligence not to be available to Ukraine last moh; Neither through the US ielligence agencies, nor the members of the Fayo -Eiz security alliance or the five eyes. Mike Waltz then accideally addressed a journalist to an ierview in the signal messenger, which explicitly discussed US military operations in Yemen; What happens to the concern of curre officials in maiaining governme 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 ielligence relationship with London with Washington “remained separately.”
However, curre and former British ielligence 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 ielligence 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 iertwined nature of the relationship, if the United States coinues 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 ielligence dates back to decades, with the formation of the Fayo -Eiz ielligence allies after World War II.
In the following years, joi operations and extensive regulatory activities of the alliance remained largely hidden uil Edward Snowden, the US National Security Agency’s disclosure, revealed the nature of this cooperation by exposing more than 1.5 million classified documes.
Although Fayo Eis survived the disclosure, according to a former British ielligence official, it changed the disclosure of “some of the abilities and access” how to collect information and ieract with technology companies with governmes.
In the past decades, human ielligence collection by ages and ielligence 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 corast, signal information that goes back to digital data has grown sharply.

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According to an information source, automatic exchange and bulk digital information has become more importa because of its scalable nature. “This cooperation is very deep and iertwined, 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 coury, are used to monitor communications and detail their location, capacities and goals for confideial security reasons.
According to Neil Melvin, director of iernational 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 importa to oversee the Mediterranean for the United States, especially because of Israel’s position,” he says.
If the United States leaves its ielligence 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 ielligence bases on British soil.”
A member of the British ielligence community now operating in the private sector says hearing stations collect “huge amou of raw data” such as Iernet traffic, telephone and radio, and then separate meaningful signals using artificial ielligence; For example, by ideifying 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 ielligence community, who worked closely with the American side, also noted that the signal information community is very cohere and iegrated within the Fayo Isa framework. “Some are American equipme 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 ielligence with Ukraine has directly affected Kiev’s ability to confro Russia; Especially in the use of technologies that needed US information and data.
Ukraine’s ban on commercial satellite images used by the US governme is also “very worrying”, according to a former British ielligence 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 reminisce 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 recely spoke of these concerns, saying that the F-5 fighter, which is available to US allies, may be about 5 perce weaker than American fighters, as they may be back to the United States someday.

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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 developme of dual (military and civilian) technologies for the US and other Fayo Isa members.
“If the United States is ierested in one of the British pates today, it would easily buy it,” a former British ielligence 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 tales due to massive US investme, London has taken several conservation tactics to preserve technology even against its close allies.
In February, the British governme allowed the sale of a maritime defense system to an American engineering company, but this was met with conditions; Including the appoime of a British security manager and security manager and maiaining governme powers to require companies to support national defense and security if needed. However, the iegration of US companies io the British defense, ielligence 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 Departme has a coract with Endoriel’s American Defense Technology Start; British ielligence agencies use the services of the US Palaier Company, and the British State Communications Headquarters has signed a coract with Amazon in year 6 to store its cloud data.
“Britain for decades has considered this iegration of American technology as a clever cooperation because it believed that the relationship between the two couries was more reliable and more reliable than the London and the European Union, but that was a mistaken notion,” says a former ielligence 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 ielligence circles, Paltiko reports. According to a member of the British ielligence community, Ilan Mask’s ierest in influencing British and European policies is evide.

Starlink recipie in rural areas of the UK
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 ielligence 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 ielligence allies, adding: “We have not yet eered the crisis, but a new level of caution has emerged in these relationships.”
However, the British governme has so far refused to criticize Trump. “In governme 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 ielligence 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 curre iernational 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 corary of Washington, which has lost much of its credibility.
“Throughout the northern Europe and Eastern Europe, US credibility has been destroyed,” said a former ielligence 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 coury 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 recely stressed that the United States is still active in NATO; But rece developmes have shown that this situation may not last. Now the UK has to answer the question of whether it can be a replaceme for the United States.
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