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| otto-san:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on May 15, 2017, 07:31:50 PM ---what a great relationship we have with our allies if we can't even share crucial information about our enemies with people that are fighting them if the Russian relationship extends as far as us sharing information about our common enemies then I have absolutely no qualms with that and neither should anybody else really --- End quote --- the point is, if someone confides in you to keep information between you and them, and then you tell someone else that information, it's going to make them and other people trust you less. there was an agreement between two parties to keep something secret and it was broken, and that is going to have an effect on how well people trust our word. the nature of the information and the parties receiving it is (mostly) irrelevant here, it's just the principle of what happened that is going to turn heads. i don't want to overplay anything here, i seriously don't think this is any kind of national security issue, but it's definitely more than nothing, and it will almost certainly have negative effects on our international reputation in the short term |
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--- Quote from: otto-san on May 15, 2017, 08:22:36 PM ---the point is, if someone confides in you to keep information between you and them, and then you tell someone else that information, it's going to make them and other people trust you less. there was an agreement between two parties to keep something secret and it was broken, and that is going to have an effect on how well people trust our word. the nature of the information and the parties receiving it is (mostly) irrelevant here, it's just the principle of what happened that is going to turn heads. --- End quote --- honestly i can see this being a problem, so yeah i sort of agree to an extent. afterwards our trust is depending on Annoying Orange and russia on what to do with the information they were given. unless if he really knows what he is doing this might be risky. emphasis on the might |
| Nonnel:
It all depends on what the intel was, but it was apparently very secret if a US ally shared it with the US and only the US. |
| Rooged:
--- Quote from: King Tøny on May 15, 2017, 07:45:32 PM ---I still haven't got a real source. All the sources the OP gave are confirmed to be mostly fake news. --- End quote --- of all loving people to complain about not having a source... |
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oh no you responded to it now he has the queue to derail this topic ahhhhh!!!!! |
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