L’Europa si preoccupa della sua dipendenza dall’intelligenza americana. Negli ultimi mesi, tra il ritorno al potere del presidente Donald Trump, alcuni europei vedono sempre più la loro dipendenza dall’intelligence americana come una vulnerabilità.

BERLIN — The CIA’s station chief here delivered an alarming piece of intelligence to Germany’s spy agency last year, according to German and U.S. officials: Russia was planning to assassinate the chief executive of Germany’s largest arms manufacturer.

The German government responded by surrounding Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger — whose company is a major supplier of munitions to Ukraine — with a security detail as large as the one assigned to the chancellor. German intelligence services then began scouring their own sources for more information on the plot, including whether Russia had operatives in place for such a brazen operation, the officials said.

But a year later, Germany’s understanding of the threat still consists almost entirely of what it was told by the CIA, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. The search involved all of Germany’s security services, one official said, “but we don’t have such information.”

The sequence underscores a level of dependence on U.S. intelligence that has persisted in Germany and other Western countries for years. Over the past several months, amid President Donald Trump’s return to power, that reliance is increasingly seen as a vulnerability.

Across Europe, security officials are contemplating scenarios that once seemed unthinkable: being cut off from U.S. intelligence by an administration seeking to punish or pressure allies; reduced intelligence gathering on Russia under a U.S. president who has a history of siding with the Kremlin; espionage relationships built over years undone by purges of U.S. intelligence officers and analysts accused of inadequate fealty to the president.

In interviews, current and former senior European security officials spoke with a shared sense of unease, facing a stream of Russian proxy attacks at a time when the continued flow of alerts from U.S. intelligence — like the one shared with Germany — suddenly seems less certain. Among the officials are senior security officials in Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European countries that have faced arson attacks, assassination plots and sabotage operations attributed to Russian proxies.

Papperger, meanwhile, remains under protection. A former German official described taking part in a recent hunting outing with the Rheinmetall executive and said at least six security operatives accompanied him, even into the forest. Papperger declined to comment for this story.

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Now that’s a contradiction of terms

Well, European politicians have been naive and emotional for decades, they do know the basic rule that you can never ever rely on others for your own national interests but they have been choosing the easiest way for their job security i.e. depending on the USA. Now they wake up? Unreliable group of liars.