Trump was not informed of a recent Ukrainian attack on Russia, The Hill’s sister network NewsNation confirmed Sunday.

According to NewsNation’s Tanya Noury, an administration official said the president was not given a heads-up about the drone attack that a Ukrainian security official alleged destroyed more than 40 planes well within Russian territory, according to The Associated Press.

    • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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      177 days ago

      Not like he pays attention during important international security meetings anyways. All they need to do is make the power point more than 3 slides long and more than 45 words.

    • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      257 days ago

      We are currently clean on OPSEC

      the level of stupidity involved with formulating this sentence still gives me pause. What the actual fuck are you trying to say, Hesgeth or whatever idiot on the signal chat… do you really think you’re ‘clean’ on ‘opsec’ IN FUCKING SIGNAL?

      they heard the term opsec from one of their security detail and wanted to jam it in there because it sounded cool.

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        167 days ago

        Plus; why even say it? The assumption is you’re clean on opsec until you know you aren’t. You still don’t say anything more than absolutely necessary where it might get picked up. It’s like saying “we’re still breathing oxygen”. When that changes, you’ll know, because all hell breaks loose.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          147 days ago

          My hypothesis is that it was intentional because they thought it would make it look like they were badasses, instead of the absolute shed of toolboxes that they are.

    • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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      167 days ago

      I wonder whether he still feels embarrassed about that. I intermittently relive minor faux pas, and each one haunts me in a unique way. He said quite possibly the cringiest string of words of all time, and yet his knuckles aren’t white and his lips unchapped and whole. Wonder how he does it.

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        137 days ago

        I think that there’s a substantial percentage of the idiot population who are entirely, blissfully unaware of how excruciatingly stupid they are. Sure they make mistakes, but life keeps on trucking, no consequences so it couldn’t have been that big a deal right?

        Bill-Paxton in True Lies vibes.

      • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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        17 days ago

        He said quite possibly the cringiest string of words of all time

        I dunno there’s quite some contenders in the running, like “Amen, and a-women.” 😂

        But it’s up there!

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    I remember in Trump’s last presidency, Dutch security services hacked into a Russian hacking group that (IIRC) hacked amongst other things he DNC. They even had access to security cameras, and could follow everything being said and done. The info was shared to help the US government secretly defend itself but trump used it immediately for some political bullshit

    This directly caused the Dutch operation to be detected and they were kicked out

    The director of the Dutch intelligence agencies then, in an interview, mentioned that as of that moment they would no longer share everything with the US as it had become an unreliable partner.

    I’m pretty sure this decision is still in effect with this administration. Trump is the US 's worst enemy

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    This is a ridiculous headline.

    If this was “Heads of UK, Germany, and France were informed ahead of Ukraine attack; Trump left in the dark” it’d be a different story.

    As it stands, there’s no reason to think this is anything but clickbait. The real story is the military operation. Don’t mention him unless it’s actually relevant.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      227 days ago

      Thanks for the sanity check. I wouldn’t think Ukraine’s top brass would notify any world leaders of an impending attack, especially one that took so long to plan and with such high stakes. Give me one reason they would?!

      • @smayonak@lemmy.world
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        107 days ago

        Up until now the Ukrainian military conferred with the USA as to what targets to strike. The us provided a great deal of intelligence.

        • @tauren@lemm.ee
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          87 days ago

          But this isn’t the first time Ukraine kept a military operation in secret.

        • @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          36 days ago

          This is an incredibly covert operation that has been in play since before 2025. If the headline was “Pentagon aware, President wasn’t” that would again be a different story. There are countless stories of the man being a walking national security risk - unless we have proof that they went around him, this is just diluting that conversation.

    • @Nalivai@lemmy.world
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      36 days ago

      The story isn’t about the attack, it’s about how Trump thinks he’s entitled to all the information.

  • @supamanc@lemmy.world
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    337 days ago

    If Trump expects to be informed of Ukrainian intentions, they should exploit his hubris - use him to spread disinformation and divert Russian attention away from true targets.