Do you remember when President Trump’s emissary Steve Witkoff recently revealed how the CIA was deliberately misinforming him and the U.S negotiating group about the status of Hamas? {GO DEEP} Essentially Witkoff shared that in mid-east negotiations, in real time as the events unfolded, the CIA was generating false intelligence reports that were complete fabrications disconnected from the reality of the events unfolding on the ground.
Well, if you remember that recent example, then this report leaked to Reuters starts to make sense.
According to “six sources familiar with U.S. intelligence” the CIA is generating reports that Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin intends to march all the way through Ukraine to the Polish border: thereby taking control of the entire country.
According to the “six sources familiar with U.S. intelligence,” President Trump is ignoring their intelligence reports. This would be a little funny, if the consequences of this rogue Global Intelligence Apparatus were not worrisome. However, given the fact that no head of state in any western country can be sure the Intelligence Community is not operating independently, the Reuters report takes on context.
As the story is told, four months ago U.S. intelligence told President Trump that Putin was going to invade Europe. For some reason President Trump, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff ignored them. Perhaps now we discover the benefit of having the former chair of the senate intelligence committee as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON/PARIS, Dec 19 (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to capture all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire, six sources familiar with U.S. intelligence said, even as negotiators seek an end to the war that would leave Russia with far less territory.
The reports present a starkly different picture from that painted by U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukraine peace negotiators, who have said Putin wants to end the conflict. The most recent of the report’s dates from late September, according to one of the sources.
The intelligence also contradicts the Russian leader’s denials that he is a threat to Europe.
The U.S. findings have been consistent since Putin launched his full-scale invasion in 2022. They largely align with the views of European leaders and spy agencies that he covets all of Ukraine and territories of former Soviet bloc states, including members of the NATO alliance, according to the sources.
“The intelligence has always been that Putin wants more,” Mike Quigley, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a Reuters interview. “The Europeans are convinced of it. The Poles are absolutely convinced of it. The Baltics think they’re first.”
Russia controls about 20% of Ukraine’s territory, including the bulk of Luhansk and Donetsk, the provinces that comprise the industrial heartland of the Donbas, parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces and Crimea, the strategic Black Sea peninsula.
Putin claims Crimea and all four provinces as belonging to Russia. Trump is pressuring Kyiv to withdraw its forces from the small part of Donetsk they control as part of a proposed peace deal, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a demand that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and most Ukrainians reject.
“The president’s team has made tremendous progress with respect to ending the war” and Trump has stated that a peace deal “is closer than ever before,” said a White House official without addressing the intelligence reports. (read more)
Actually, according to the “six intelligence sources” these Russia invading Europe reports have been generated all year, with the most recent of them in September.
It’s almost as if the U.S. intelligence bureaucrats within both the State Dept and the Intelligence Community are angered that President Trump is not constructing foreign policy according to their worldview.
We can laugh now. Make sure you watch the video from Viktor Orban below.
Politico has exported its Russia collusion lies across the Atlantic, and Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever is not happy about it. But credit to him for channeling his anger into sheer ridicule. pic.twitter.com/fANW3ivxSE
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) December 19, 2025
Who you gonna call? 💪😎 pic.twitter.com/gkf9NuiHOu
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) December 19, 2025
Putin to Rutte: "What are you talking about when you talk about preparing for war with Russia. Can you read? Have you read the US National Security Strategy? It doesn't mention Russia as an adversary. US is the main backer of NATO. And yet the General Secretary of NATO is… https://t.co/qFCjiTsJsq pic.twitter.com/S5hpVzVLSJ
— Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) December 19, 2025
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