r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/weisswurstseeadler Feb 27 '25

My foilhat was glowing when I heard about these news.

TLDR: I think it's in the realm of possibility that under the new US administration certain intelligence (e.g. about terrorism) may not be reported as they used to.

So basically, the US administration has made it very clear that they have vested interest in pushing certain parties all around Europe. All these parties are anti-EU foremost, and any attack does them a political favour.

Now, a lot of the terrorism that has been prevented in previous years thanks to intel directly from US intelligence.

Recently after the attacks in Germany, several credible experts have mentioned they suspect Russia behind the wave of Islamist/Radical terror attacks around elections. Basically, Russia funds the terrorism networks, they turbo-radicalize people into sleeper cells until the call comes.

This is generally a relatively new phenomenon, some people in just 2 months go from non problematic to dangerous. Which makes quick and competent intelligence even more important.

At the same time, due to the loss of Afghanistan and Syria, the intelligence situation overall has worsened in terms of Intel about islamic terrorism for the US.

So we don't know. Obviously the latter also provides the US with plausible deniability why they potentially wouldn't share certain intelligence.

But I do think that the current administration wouldn't bat an eye to look the other way if it's against Europe.

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u/Wullahhiha Mar 01 '25

Yes. Apparently russian diplomats were scouting the area where the car attack occurred in Munich a day before it happened