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Columnist of Observer.com Fei Long Bans
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The slogan of European autonomy has not lasted long, and it has found itself in the hands of the United States Again, Trump’s statement on intelligence sharing, suspension or resumption, is like flipping a pancake.
March 5, the United States announced the cessation of military assistance to Ukraine and part of the military intelligence sharing, the front line of the Ukrainian army immediately fell into the state of blindness and deafness. European countries have also experienced the feeling of Russia being kicked out of SWIFT.
Although Trump quickly changed his face and said that he had lifted the decision to suspend intelligence sharing with Ukraine, but the stunned European countries have just woken up as the United States and the European Union as the basis of the European Union and the United States intelligence-sharing mechanism, but it is only the United States to pin down the European hand tool.
After the United States stopped intelligence sharing with Ukraine, Germany, Denmark and Canada are worried that the United States may also remotely paralyze their air power by cutting off logistical systems and maintenance support for the U.S.-made F-35 fighters that they will buy and put into service in the future.
European Intelligence Systems and the U.S.
The intelligence that the United States shared with Ukraine during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict demonstrated the power of its technology and also increased Ukraine’s asymmetric advantage in areas such as logistics, battlefield awareness, communications interception, and real-time surveillance. Especially in today’s information-based warfare and civil-military integration, at least from the point of view of paper data, the previous purely physical understanding of weaponry is no longer able to speculate on the battlefield, and the weakening of information technology and civil-military boundaries greatly enhances the battlefield performance of the weaker countries.
As the most advanced and powerful country in the field of global intelligence, the U.S. intelligence system started in World War II and became powerful in the Cold War. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Cold War for the West to fight against the Soviet Union together, the U.S. intelligence system has realized different degrees of control over the entire Western world. It can be said that what Caesar, Napoleon and Hitler wanted to do but failed to do, the Americans did, and a common enemy allowed the United States to rapidly realize a deep occupation of Europe.
Early History of the United States and the Five Eyes Coalition
At the end of World War II, the intelligence agencies of Britain, the United States, and three other Commonwealth countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, formed a united front against the communist world led by the Soviet Union.
In 1946, these Anglo-Saxon countries established a cooperative relationship and signed the UK USA Agreement, forming the Five Eyes Alliance. Early on, each of the five countries conducted its own division of surveillance, with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) responsible for Central and South America, the eastern part of the Soviet Union east of the Urals Mountains, China, and the rest of Asia. Canadian Communications Security Establishment CSE for the northern part of the USSR High latitudes and polar regions.
II. Hierarchy of the United States Intelligence System
First, the Five Eyes Coalition is a Tier 1 country Tier A or Tier 2 member country. They use common procedures, such as target identification systems, equipment, methods, code generation, etc., in addition to sharing raw data and analysis.
The second is the Tier II countries, or third member countries. This tier brings together other relevant countries for targeted cooperation with the U.S. In Europe, NATO countries are located within this tier, while France and Israel maintain limited cooperation. Because of their specific expertise or geographic location, the U.S. grants them funding for advanced technology or strong information interdiction capabilities. There are more than 30 cooperating countries in this tier, and they spy on each other with equal impunity.
Third, there is the third tier of countries, also known as Special Partnerships. The U.S. considers these countries to be more or less in conflict with its own interests, and they can be categorized as between friendly and neutral, including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Indonesia, Kenya, and South Africa.
Fourth, target countries, including China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and North Korea.
The United States has a long history of cooperation with certain partner countries based on geographic or strategic interests. Among them is the NATO Advisory Committee on Special Intelligence, which is a platform for NATO discussions on signals intelligence issues. The London-based European Advanced Signals Intelligence SigInt Seniors Europe, known as the Fourteen Eyes Coalition, includes the Five Eyes Coalition countries and Germany Belgium Denmark Spain France Italy Netherlands Norway Sweden. In Asia, the United States has constructed the Ten Eyes Coalition, which includes the Five Eyes Coalition countries and Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Thailand and one unknown member.
This follows reports that Angela Merkel had her cell phone tapped by the U.S. for up to 10 years
The Perfection of U.S. Intelligence Forces
Have to admit that the U.S. intelligence forces are indeed powerful, the composite use of a variety of forces so that the United States objectively has a strong global perception of the ability, here are a few small examples to explain.
Here are a few examples to illustrate. One is the concept of the United States. The United States to establish a panoramic surveillance, covering all networks, telephones, digital communications and the human brain Yes, it is the human brain. For the U.S., with the emergence of cognitive confrontation, the human brain is an important position of contention.
The second is U.S. technology. There is no need to say more here, since the Battle of Midway to break the Japanese code, the inexhaustible pursuit of technology and the belief in technical rationality of the Americans continue to work on this.
This, coupled with the global reach of social media platforms like Facebook X Twitter, has allowed the U.S. to achieve a deeper level of control. Zuckerberg once said, if you need information on any Harvard man, just ask me, I have over 4,000 email addresses, photos, usernames, people give me that information, I don’t know why. They trust me, the idiots.
The third is the action grip of NGOs. although NGOs claim to be nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), their essence is officially authorized actions, only that the subject of the action is not the official. Edward Herman, Robert McChesney, and others have pointed out in their 2001 article on global media and the new missionaries of global capitalism that the way America expands today is not through the state but through corporations, and that corporations are far more effective than the state in terms of expansion, and so are NGOs, which deepen the infiltration of American values through their various activities and, relying on the powerful image of their own countries, expand the influence of American values on the target groups. NGOs deepen the penetration of American values through various activities, and rely on their own strong image to shape the perceptions of the students, youth, and underclass in the target country.
Therefore, the power of NGOs should not be underestimated, although they are not direct violence, but the target is the future stars of the country, if a group of quality groups whose minds have been changed to take over the country, what will happen is self-evident. From the recently declassified USAID programs, it is not difficult to find that they are quite accurately directed at the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres of our country. In less than 10 years, there are more than a thousand China-related entries, with more than 40 entries with a high risk factor. The funding for more than 40 of these entries exceeds 50 million dollars, and the Americans are indeed willing to spend money in this area.
U.S. Surveillance of Allies
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the National Security Adviser of the United States in 1977 and 1981, once famously said, “Yes, the United States is spying on the whole world, and neither friend nor foe is an exception.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Europe has long been torn between independence and reversal to the U.S. The depth of control by the U.S. is like placing Europe in an iron cage, and no matter how it breaks free, the invisible hand of intelligence has pressed Europe to the westernmost tip of the Asian-European continent.
For the U.S., a weak and infighting Europe is exactly what they need. Through the trinity of ideological infiltration, intelligence control and military alliance, the United States appears to be defending the so-called free world, but in fact, it is puppeteering all the members of Europe.
The first is the monitoring of the Five Eyes Coalition internally. The Five Eyes Alliance was initially established for the purpose of exchanging intelligence with each other during the Cold War, and the agreement stipulated that the member states would send liaison officers to each other to reside in each other’s intelligence departments. In reality, however, the United States quickly became the dominant player in the Five Eyes Alliance, imposing discriminatory rules without fear, and forcing the other members to adjust their intelligence procedures.
Moreover, because other members use intelligence equipment provided by the United States National Security Agency, the United States was able to hack into the equipment of member countries unobtrusively and easily obtain their intelligence. For example, U.S. equipment in Chickasandzadeh, England, consistently monitors the communications of allies The U.S. Embassy in London is responsible for collecting data on Whitehall Street, which is home to Britain’s military and political departments. As you can see, even the closest allies have not escaped the echelon system nicknamed Big Ears.
The second is the surveillance of the major countries of the European Union. 2013, by the former CIA technical analyst Snowden exposed the Prism program, so that the United States to monitor the allies of the behavior of the public, regardless of Obama at the time how to appease the France and Germany, have not been satisfied with the two most powerful countries in Europe, but instead triggered a high degree of vigilance and attitudes of conservatism.
The German Chancellor at the time, Angela Merkel, had to stand up for German citizens in order to win over voters. However, it is embarrassing that since the Cold War, the German intelligence agencies and the United States have been working closely together, for example, after 9/11, the United States provided Germany with intelligence analysis tools, which allowed Germany to analyze and process information passing through Germany’s Near East and the Middle East. Such deep ties make European powers uncomfortable but difficult to act upon.
Third, the surveillance of international organizations: in September 2012, the President of the European Commission, José Barroso, the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, were invited to New York to attend the inauguration ceremony of the European Union’s representative office building, but they did not know that the United States had obtained the architectural drawings before the construction began, and that the building had already been fitted with surveillance equipment. The U.S. intelligence services also installed eavesdropping equipment in the offices of the European embassies in Washington, D.C., and the National Security Agency was able to access the embassies’ VPNs at any time. it can be said that all the letters sent by the representatives of European countries back to their own countries were an open secret.
Dependent on the United States strong underlying framework Massive raw data Advanced technical means, small European countries greatly reduce the cost of intelligence, but also greatly dependent on the United States. The biggest possibility of this cut-off is to accelerate the calm and integration of Europe, however, considering the deep penetration of the United States as well as Europe’s tradition of division, it remains to be seen if there will be any real progress.
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