Ukraine: NATO Faces Crisis as Member States Increasingly Distrust Each other Over Intel

An unnamed current NATO official, meanwhile, urged that such threats should not be exaggerated. There is growing concern among NATO countries about the risks of intelligence sharing, President Trump’s attempts to mend relations with Russia have increased skepticism about such cooperation with Washington, Politico reported, citing current and former alliance and security officials from across the alliance. According to the newspaper, intelligence sharing in NATO has long been complicated by mistrust between the alliance’s traditional members and the Central and Eastern European countries that joined after the collapse of the USSR. The mistrust has intensified since the start of Russia’s…