Secret services worried
Internal document: Europe is blind without the USA
The USA has announced its intention to gradually withdraw from Europe. The move poses enormous security risks for the continent. Without the intelligence activities of the USA, an age of darkness looms.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen The United States of America is the eye of the NATO area. This is according to an internal report by the German Ministry of Defense from 2023. The public broadcasters NDR and WDR have now made the contents public.
It states that the USA provides 76% of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities within the alliance. Europe's dependence on the US intelligence services has long been an open secret.
The German evaluation deals specifically with the various forms of military information gathering using reconnaissance aircraft, drones, satellites, technical surveillance and human sources from the seabed to outer space, the German broadcasters report.
Although no concrete figures are available on counter-terrorism, the USA also plays a major role here. In Germany, too, decisive tips have repeatedly come from the other side of the Atlantic. For example, it was US investigators who warned of the Swift attacker in Ternitz.
In view of this imbalance, there is great fear that blind spots could arise under Trump's second reign. An age of intelligence darkness could dawn.
The USA does have a service regulation on the "duty to warn". It applies to everyone in the event of planned terrorist attacks - including countries such as Russia or Iran. However, deep cuts are to be expected here. In the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI, personnel are being replaced across the board.
The former National Director of the US Secret Services, Avril Haines, already warned of major upheavals last year. In Brussels, in light of a second Trump administration, she is said to have called on NATO to build up and expand its own capabilities in order to no longer be as dependent on the flow of information from the USA as before. She has now been replaced by the Russia-friendly Tulsi Gabbard.
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