The excitement is not expressed publicly, but the concern is real, within Western intelligence services, on the future of cooperation with the United States. While Washington keeps repeating his wish to accelerate his “Pivot” Towards Asia and that the Pentagon suspended, for three days, between March 5 and 8, its support for Ukraine in terms of intelligence, this precedent aroused a real shock, told the World Several security, military and diplomatic sources in recent weeks, to the point of arouing unprecedented reflections between Allies. On April 17, the subject appeared, as such, in good place on the agenda of the first visit of the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, in Washington since the inauguration of Donald Trump.
One of the symptomatic signals of this climate took place on April 11, in Brussels, during the annual meeting of the single intelligence analysis capacity (SIAC), this service which aggregates the intelligence of the member states of the European Union on behalf of the high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, the Estonian Kaja Kallas. The SIAC has no own operational capacities and is usually relatively neglected by the intelligence services. But this time, the highest officials of European agencies were present.
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Source: Lemonde