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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.

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

According to the latest reports, he still doesn't know they happened because he regularly doesn't attend his own security briefings. Not to worry though, he'll be fully briefed this evening when Fox and Friends covers it tonight.

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

That's why it worked.

[–] RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago

Yeah, its pretty typical not to give war plans to an enemy state.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nor should he ever be. Putins puppydog is not on the n2k lists. He just doesn't have the cards

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Was Trump informed that he is a nitwit and a jackass and should be in prison?

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just put him in a truman show-style mental hospital, he's gonna love it and never give it a second thought. Or...maybe that's what the WH has become at this point...

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I heard they were thinking about turning the presidential daily brief into either cartoons or a fake news channel stream just to get him to pay attention.... So yeah, Truman show Whitehouse sounds eerily plausible

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I can't even tell if you're joking

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 296 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That’s because trump is a national security risk.

[–] Schumus@lemmy.world 219 points 1 day ago (1 children)

International security risk

[–] TwistedCister@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago

International man of Pisstory.

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

Trump is a global security risk.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago

Yeah why would you tell the enemy of your plans?

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 223 points 1 day ago

Well yeah. The intention was for the attack to succeed.

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

CMD Taco Krasnov can suck it.

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Holy fucking hell the entitlement.

[–] JASN_DE@feddit.org 196 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That seems to be the safer option.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day 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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 124 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember in Trump's last presidency, rutxh 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

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 57 points 1 day ago

That's a bit unfair. trump is the world's worst enemy.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 8 points 1 day ago

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

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 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"We are currently clean on OPSEC"

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day 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.

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago
[–] hefejefe@lemm.ee 115 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can’t have that information leak to Putin.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about trickling down to Putin?

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Putin does the trickling down on trump

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago

Trump is one of the blyats, why would Zelenskyy inform him?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems Donald is beginning to learn that he can't sustainably approach foreign policy and diplomacy as if he's ordering up a Big Mac.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

I just came to up vote everyone. Or I up voted everyone and then I cam....anyway, yeah this is great! Let's hope. Never lose hope. I hope for a quick end to this stupid war and also the one in Gaza.... But not that quick.. Not nuclear quick. Just you know, like pace deal quick... Capture all the nazis and give them a proper sea burial quick type of quick. How about the other planes this week?

[–] doc@fedia.io 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Starbelliedboy@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

Realistically, I can't imagine why he would be.

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[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

Nor should he be. Ever.

[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do that a couple times to the point the Russians don't believe it, and then use the correct targets expecting the Russians to protect the other nearby targets like last times instead.

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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

U mean special operation right

[–] Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

That's why it worked.

Trump would have tweeted the plans about five seconds after he told Putin so probably for the best.

[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

Tell Trump, so he can tell Putin, fuck that....

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