According to CNN, “The U.S. decision to fly its surveillance drones further south over the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with a U.S. drone earlier this month ‘limits our ability to gather intelligence’ related to the Ukraine war, a senior U.S. military official tells CNN. Flying drones at greater distances reduces the quality of intelligence they can gather, a U.S. military official explained, noting that spy satellites can compensate to some degree but have shorter times over targets, again reducing effectiveness relative to surveillance drones.”
So, let me see if I understand this correctly. Russia forces down one of our intelligence drones while flying in international waters, and Biden decides to back down because we’ve offended Russia. Un-f***ing-believable. Once again, America proves itself to be weak. It would be one thing if we changed our intelligence-gathering procedures while not losing any capabilities. But our military has conceded that’s not what is happening. To avoid upsetting Putin, we are sacrificing our intelligence acumen. Moreover, these changes are also at the expense of Ukraine, which just reinforces my continuing belief that Biden and the U.S. really have no interest in helping Ukraine win the war. Instead, they’re more interested in helping Ukraine simply not lose as Biden provides military help one drip at a time. What a f***ing disaster. Biden is kinda on my sh*t list again because he’s demonstrating weaknesses. Other NATO nations are doing more to help Ukraine. What a f***ing joke. Welcome to stupid America!