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 large-scale drone attack saw a fleet of drones scattered all across Russia carry out simultaneous attacks on five airbases, wiping out 40 irreplaceable military bombers worth an estimated $7 billion, which have been used to reign terror upon Ukrainian civilians.

“Operation Spider-Web” took over 18 months to plan and was personally overseen by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a source told CBS News.

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[–] 351 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why would anyone even consider telling any politicians of foreign nations about a top secret project like that, much less blabbermouths like Donald Trump?

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  • [–] 231 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd be surprised if Ukraine isn't feeding Trump false info to see if Russia reacts to it

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Between nations that share trust and respect, theoretically, it would give them time to reposition themselves to the coming reality, and perhaps more importantly, give any assets they have in the area a warning to keep their heads down/not step on any toes.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Even at the height of WW2 the Allies kept secrets from each other. Churchill had no idea the US had the Atom Bomb until it was deployed.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This isn’t exactly true. The British were well aware of the Manhattan Project- indeed, the whole thing began as the British Tube Alloys project before they ran out of money and convinced the Americans to take it on, with the British delegation taking prominent roles.

    Britain also knew that the bomb was ready for use as the US didn’t have any bomb bay mounts strong enough to hold the weight, and they had to ask the RAF to supply a small number of mounts that had been designed for Barnes-Wallace’s 10,000kg earthquake bombs.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    "Deliberately blindsided" is a little strong. We're not even officially an ally of Ukraine. They don't owe us, or anyone else jack shit as far as their war plans for defending their country. Add to that the fact that Trump is credibly accused of being a Russian asset and defers to their interests 99% of the time... Why the fuck would you trust us right now!?

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    [–] 200 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Considering Trump is a Russian asset, that was a smart move to keep him out of the loop.

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  • [–] 128 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah you don't typically tell the enemy about your secret attack plans

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    [–] 106 points 1 year ago

    Oh, is that why it was such an effective attack?

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  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Ukraine doesn't give intel to obvious Russkie mole"

    Yeah, no shit

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    [–] 78 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As is appropriate.

    I'm trying to recall a disco song from, I believe, the 1970s whose lyrics in the chorus went somewhat like the following - though I might be mistaken:

    "That's the way uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh"

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago

    Why inform Putin's Bitch?

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Ukraine is a sovereign country, they don't need to tell Don anything.

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    [–] 59 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good. He'd have fucking spilled the beans

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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The u.s is not an ally to any of us, we have to purposely hide things from them or government and treat them as spies for Russia.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Was it because Trump didn’t say “thank you” after the last time Ukraine shared top secret war plans?

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Should have fed him a false location and then monitored Putin's move. Would have confidently proven that tRump is an asset if moves were made to the fake target. Trap this fucker and then public punishment!

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    LOOK AT THE FIREPLACE! No fake spray gold ornamentation! What the shit?!? Is the Oval Office a reality tv show set? Compare the fireplace from when Zelenskyy visited to Ramaphosa’s visit on May 25:

    That’s some heinous Temu-quality decor! stay classy USA

    🤡

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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    “Operation Spider-Web” took over 18 months to plan

    Either they left the Biden admin out of the loop too, or Biden went scorched Earth on Ukraine intelligence after the election to protect Ukraine.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There is nothing anyone should discuss with Cheeto, he is dumb and works for russians. There is absolutely no value in that person, he is a completely worthless useless being.

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Even if he weren’t a Russian simp, why would Ukraine tell anyone? An 18 month long attack is just tooo much invested to risk losing the surprise

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Because it's blatantly obvious he supports Russia how often has he accused Ukraine of starting the war by being invaded now?

    Should probably use him to give the Russians false Intel.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You do not inform enemy agents of your secret military operations.

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago*

    As they should in the future as well.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn’t even tell trump what time it was, let alone something this hugely important. Trump should feel snubbed, because he’s an untrustworthy piece of taco shit.

    Good on Ukraine.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What kind of twisted toxic argument is to phrase it like that and call it news?

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    He will throw a tantrum, demand to be in the loop. Next time he gets the intel, Russia prepares, but Ukraine will strike elsewhere 😂

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    Why would a sovereign country, being attacked by a hostile neighbor, be required to inform ANYONE about their war plans? I wouldn't inform anyone, even my friends. They'll see it on the news, like everyone else.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You do what you must when your life is on the line

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Good, thats what they should do

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I would not tell Krasnov jack shit about any military operation.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably sounds better in Ukrainian but "Operation Spider-web" is still fucking badass

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    this has been planned long before TACO came into office. how about something is not about mUrICa?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Good. The orange shitter has been pretty clear that he's no friend of Ukraine, there's absolutely no chance that he wouldn't have leaked that information to Russia just on the hope that daddy Putin would give him a pat on the head and pretend to be friends again.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    That's why it worked. We all know it.

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