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That's what you call strategic planning and leadership. 

Or in this case, common sense.

MudBloodLite

Hey guess what, I would bet real money our allies are holding back intelligence from us,  because the clown at the top cannot be trusted not to sell them out.  TACO Don's for sale and everyone knows it.

SuperstitiousPigeon5

Ukraine knows that sharing info with trump and his gang is the same as directly handing intel to Putin.

LuvKrahft

Trump would’ve warned Putin ahead of time. Trump is a Russian asset.

Forward-Weather4845

Ukraine has significantly better OpSec than the DoD under Pete Kegsbreath.

Raven_Photography

Zelensky personally oversaw the secret planning of this attack for a year and a half.

And he had to sit there in that Oval Office meeting and listen to putin's puppets berate him about not being thankful enough and not having cards to play.

But he knew something they didn't...

sachiprecious

I bet Ukraine provided him with misinformation to see what he did with it. They know more than they are letting on, but this all alone is telling.

Melodic-Frosting-443

Zelensky must have been giddy as fuck sitting there in the Oval Office getting dressed down and told he doesn’t have the cards when he personally knew he was about to take out 1/3 of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.

Almost like Obama at the WHCA dinner knowing OBLs life was about to be snuffed out.

radioref

Fucking good. We can't seem to shake the Russian asset off our backs but at least the rest of the world can keep him in the dark.

galaapplehound

It's not blindsiding. It's common sense.

  
Why would you even CONSIDER telling the man owned by Putin that you were planning an attack against Putin's forces?

PadreSJ

You don’t share military plans with your enemies. The US is no ally to Ukraine and they’re acting appropriately. Wouldn’t be surprising if Russia has plenty of people in the executive branch.

vagabending

Tell Trump = Telling Putin.  

This plan was 18 months in the making and nothing about it leaked.  Absolutely unbelievable.  Way to go Ukraine, keep on kicking Russia's ass.

OldPostalGuy

Give me 1 good reason why Ukraine was supposed to give Russia a heads up?

sniffstink1

You don't share critical military intelligence with the asset of your enemy.

Megotaku

&gt;Drones were smuggled deep into Russia in wooden crates on the back of trucks, which were later opened remotely, allowing the drones to take off. Among the targets hit was the Belaya air base in Russia’s far-east Irkutsk region, located more than 2,500 miles away from Ukraine.

Two thoughts:

1. That's genius

2. A terrifying new tactic for war crimes has just been found

No-Neighborhood-3212

Ukraine is not resisting a fascist invasion to fuck with Trump.

  
They didn’t blindside him, they did their thing and didn’t think telling Putin’s BFF in advance was a good idea but because of course it wasn’t.

BaronvonJobi

&gt;While no official reason has been given for the snub, it comes just months after the U.S. announced it would stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine unless progress was made on peace talks. Trump’s longtime fondness for Vladimir Putin and public dislike of Zelensky is also likely a key factor in Kyiv’s reluctance to share information with the President.

&gt;Following the strike, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to reiterate Trump’s call for peace between the two nations, Axios reported on Sunday. Both Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet in Istanbul on Monday to engage in peace talks.

It's almost like no one trusts magno Mussolini.

TheVoiceofReason_ish

Trump doesn’t need to know everything.  And he would have bitched and moaned Ukraine into stopping if he did know.

Astovius

It would have been like telling the head of Pakistan about the Bin Laden raid.

dBlock845

NautSK

I mean, the US government has made it clear it no longer wants to support Ukraine, so they are just acting accordingly. They also took notes from that Oval Office ambush in February. The Trump admin shouldn't be surprised or upset by this.

ImLikeReallySmart

opsec.

Something Trump doesn't understand. He loves blabbing secrets, he loves showing his superiority by letting people know that he knows more than they do.

He thinks he's being subtle too. I could easily imagine him saying something like "Trust me, Russia shouldn't be depending on their air force. I can't say anything, but something big is coming. All the planes are going to be destroyed. They'll have nothing. They won't see it coming, believe me, there's no way they'll know, but it's gonna be huge."

He doesn't even need to knowingly be a Russian agent, he does their work anyway just by being Trump.

NameLips

I think Zelensky just threw "the cards" in tRump's face.

jpcapone

Trump would have called putin in a heart beat if Ukraine gave Trump a heads up. 

Pepsiman34

Don't use the word "blindsided". Not appropriate in this case - they simply kept a military secret from one of Russias top agents.

Mr-ReDiCulouZ

Trump Repeats Allies Secrets Happily or better known as Trump TRASH.

geekstone

The title is misleading.

Ukraine does not owe Trump that information. It's on a 'need to know' basis. 

Trump was not blindsided, he's just a bystander.

Hesychios

NatroniusPrime

one of the major reasons why it turned out to be so successful

kutusow_

g2g079

Blindsiding someone who doesn't go to all their presidential meetings, and is out golfing all the time, is easy.

SolarisShine

Trump sure look silly after all those screaming and undermining Zelenskyy.

RainbowandHoneybee

fowlraul

Well yea. Trump is a Russian asset. I wouldn’t tell him shit

Foodspec

People need to remember that in 2018, seven GOP senators were in Russia for Fourth of July.

Republicans have been colluding with Russia at minimum since Trump first got elected

IsamuAlvaDyson

Good for Ukraine.

Anything told to TACO in confidence would be in Putin's ears within 5 minutes.

_Uber_Otter_

President Donald Trump was deliberately left in the dark about Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strike in Russia on Sunday, which destroyed nearly a third of the Kremlin’s strategic bomber fleet in a surprise attack.

The White House however has declined to comment on the attack—with an administration source confirming to NewsNation on Sunday that Trump was not informed about the operation before it had taken place.

While no official reason has been given for the snub, it comes just months after the U.S. announced it would stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine unless progress was made on peace talks. Trump’s longtime fondness for Vladimir Putin and public dislike of Zelensky is also likely a key factor in Kyiv’s reluctance to share information with the President.

Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-deliberately-blindsided-trump-before-massive-drone-attack-on-russia/).

thedailybeast

I'll bet Putin has been in touch with taco since this went down. Amazing how Trump can stay quiet over this 🙄, must be pissed that he's not the top newsworthy person at the beginning of June.

Sst1154

I wouldn't heap too much praise on Ukraine simply for not conducting its planning sessions for this operation on *Signal* and inviting a *Russia Today* or *Fox News* correspondent into the chat…

I mean, it would take an unimaginable level of incompetence and criminal stupidity to do such a thing, and I can't think of one country that would do so!

FoxyInTheSnow

HoomerSimps0n

It’s Ukraines War and not Trumps. Good for them! Trump would have leaked it anyways!

Shionkron

Trump shouldn’t be mad about this. He just said last week, “This isn’t my war. This is Biden’s war, Zelensky his war and Putin’s war. This isn’t Trump’s war”. No need to inform him then. 

I mean, unless he’s Putin’s puppet. But no, that couldn’t be true, right??

emschus

As a US ally, you’d have to be an idiot to tell Trump about plans to attack Russia. Trump would immediately get on the phone with Putin and tell him everything.

To-Far-Away-Times

The article calls this move a snub towards Trump.  Wild that a sovereign country making its own decisions is considered bad manners when they don't tell America.

DethNik

Bravo to Zelensky!
I wouldn't tell trump shit.

Select_Air_2044

Yes, motherfuckers! Because DJT is a Russian dupe. He is fully compromised. Anyone with two brain cells to bang together and make a spark understands this! He has populated the highest levels of the American federal government with the most witless people available. They are sharing battle plans on Signal with random journalists! He is dumber than a rock and clearly an easy mark. Wake the fuck up, America.

Emotional_Dare5743

Really Daily Beast?  "Deliberately blindsided"?  Clowns.

Try, "Avoided a national security risk and had a successful operation *because of* not informing Putin's lapdog and America's traitor"

TuffNutzes

You can absolutely guarantee, NO Country aligned with the US at the moment is fully disclosing all Intel they have. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some are providing fake Intel to ascertain if the US leaks.

aussie_shane

They don’t trust him, just like most Americans don’t trust him.

Due-Cake-2075

One can easily argue that there was no need to advise America since the attack was conducted without use of American resources.  Did Ukraine advise it's other allies in advance?  To my best knowledge they did not.

lifeisahighway2023

Because the world knows that TACO is a stitch.

GlitteringAdvance928

I mean... yeah... why on earth would Ukraine tell Taco Don's anything when he's allied with Russia? That wouldn't make sense.

Stingray88

It's not "blindsiding" him -- it's *ignoring* the fascist motherfucker exactly as they should, and making the decisions and strategic moves which they feel are right for Ukraine.  I say Bravo, and ***Slava Ukraini!!***

AnamCeili

Grand_Pirate_6185

Of course they did. They know he's a fucking Russian asset.

roy20050

“Trump was not informed about the operation before it had taken place … no official reason has been given for the snub”

I think we all know that the reason Trump was not informed is because he would immediately tell Putin.

Smishysmash

It would have been stupid of zelensky to share strategic plans with a Russian asset

LaSer_BaJwa

Oh look...the consequences of your actions

grimmalkin

Undertherainbow69

david6588

Oh shit, the people we invaded are attacking our capital.

Deadz315

Ukraine should liberate Russians at this point.

UsernameThe46th

wilsonsmilk

Concentrateman

JoeSchmoeToo

Russia could stop these attacks instantly and permanently by declaring that they are withdrawing from Ukrainian territory and resetting the borders back to their pre-invasion state. Hell, Ukraine would probably just let them have Crimea at this point, if it meant the rest of the aggression ended.

 There is no feeling sorry for Russia. Their government is at fault for every last casualty in this whole mess.

WillArrr

labadee

I'm looking forward to the 50-day streak.

steve_ample

Weekly_Curve_6642

Basslinelob

Prestigious_Way_6947

All I have to say is: ["Ok then, that was always allowed"](https://tenor.com/view/okay-then-gif-26630246)

Black_Moons

How about get your fucking army out of someone else's home if you truly don't want this to happen

LunaticP

I hope Ukraine can destroy a lot of things there that locals will even be force to start questioning the war.

bigmatch

Yet Another nuclear threat coming up no doubt

Wazza17

Keep it up. War should have gotten to Russia a long time ago.

Holiday_Archer4237

NickOulet

Hey russia, how is that 3 day special op. Going?

iglooxhibit

Thump604

Slight-Ad-6553

LThadeu

toorigged2fail

Poor Russia, if only there was some way this could have been avoided

UNSKIALz

They're just saying that because Trump said Ukraine _shouldn't_ target Moscow; and by generating these headlines, they hope this narrative spreads to Trump and discourages aid. Last I checked, and please correct me if this has changed, but drones were merely spotted in the oblast - which is regular anyway - and nothing as sensational as 'attacks Moscow' suggests.

zatch659

The headlines should probably start with "Russian official says" so we know it's probably not even true.

CodeMonkeyX

We’re the drones gonna hit maternity hospitals? Apartment blocks?  I venture to say No

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Feels like its the biggest strike every few days, is this kind of dron warfare even sustainable for a long time?

Confident-Pop-9256

It boggles the mind that Trump actually seemed to think Putin was "a nice guy" because he was being friendly when they talked.

However, it seems that this is actually what happened. They cracked a few jokes and Donnie thought "Yep, all straightened out. Another big win for me. What's on Fox now? Gimme a phone, I wanna call 'em and tell them how nice Vlad was..."

shuzz_de

Why in the fuck did Kegseth delay the weapons to Ukraine.

VladtheInhaler999

This is how war will look like, swarm of autonomous drones mass killing people. West allowed for that by not helping Ukraine in time, for 3 years Russians have been collecting data for AI training and improving drone warfare. 

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill

lutel

If trump were president this would’ve never happened

dbrettshaw

Trump´s 5th grader's choice of words is always impressive .

PanneKopp

We live in a world, where a butthurt dictator can order swarms of drones to kill people. Humanity is truly failing.

Falkenmond79

mxguy762

Interpol_Qotsa

Hairy_Photograph1384

The headline suggests a causal relationship that may not exist. But if all the suffering and death those drones caused was due to one old man taking offense at something another old man said…

War is such a tragic failure of humanity.

Atchafalaya7

Straight-Message7937

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