'Five Eyes alliance' crumbling as UK, Aus, NZ and Canada give US cold shoulder
metro.co.uk

This is my first post on lemmy so bear with me. Last week someone associated with the US govt floated the idea of kicking Canada out of the Five Eyes network. A week later… would you look at that. Thoughtless and unwarranted actions have consequences.

  • kbal
    38•15 days ago

    “President Trump will work with any ally or partner who understands the dangerous world inherited after the disastrous Biden years”

    a whiff of Führerprinzip coming from the White House

  • katy ✨
    37•14 days ago

    no country should share intelligence with the US considering sharing intelligence with the US under trump is just handing it directly to putin

            • Techsorcist
              4•14 days ago

              @NotSteve_ I agree. I Just dont think letting baby’s die is the correct answer. I mean fuck the fucking fucks. But that does not include the little ones.

              • @[email protected]
                3•14 days ago

                Yeah, that’s fair. Admittedly I think the US would has even warned Russia of impending terrorist attacks (before the US and Russia became good friends)

                • Dr. BluefallEnglish
                  2•14 days ago

                  The US has informed Russia of suspected upcoming terrorist attacks, under a “duty to warn” policy. Iran, too. Whether that information was sufficient or useful, we have only the State Department’s word, but it is still worth noting.

                • Techsorcist
                  1•14 days ago

                  @NotSteve_ Well thr US infact did do that. Remember that big ISIS attack on a moscow concert hall about a year ago?

                  Edit: seems like a lifetime ago

  • @[email protected]English
    21•15 days ago

    Good, now to eliminate the other eyes and not have loopholes like five eyes allowing countries to illegally spy on their own citizens.

  • Swordgeek
    20•14 days ago

    A lot of people - including me - instinctively say “good, let’s make it the four eyes and exclude the US.”

    But really, we need to do away with the x-eyes program entirely, in its current form.

    Shared intelligence is great, but the biggest advantage to 5Eyes has always been that it indirectly allows countries to spy on their own citizens. It’s invasive, illegal bullshit that needs to stop.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•14 days ago

    Thanks for your first post here. I’m very new and have only posted some sunrise pics. Well anyway, a friend of mine back in England about 32 years ago said to me that “America is the greatest threat to world peace”. I didn’t believe him and didn’t understand. I was obviously a lot younger, and a lot more ignorant to the way of the world.
    Well, look at it all now. John, you were actually making sense, thanks.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•14 days ago

    Good. The US should be given the cold shoulder, or not be given the same access and information they had before. They can’t be trusted. Does anyone really think he wouldn’t share any information he’s given with his Russian handlers? Right now, they’re a threat to the other four members’ national security.

  • @[email protected]
    4•14 days ago

    Good post about the five eyes, thanks.

    Now, about posting here on Lemmy, you may want to know that :

    You can edit your post (title, url and header) even after it is posted.

    Here a link has this format :
    [name](http://abc.def.com/...)

    not this :
    [[Five Eyes network]()]()