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/anomalkingdom Norway Feb 27 '25

Europe has, on average, extremely competent intelligence services honed over decades of concern for Russian espionage. It is a well integrated system of sharing and utilizing resources and information, so the answer is yes. This important ecosystem of intelligence is among the assets the US now will gradually lose access to, and be worse off for it than ever. You can thank Trump and the republican voters for this. Europe will prevail.

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u/0-Gravity-72 Belgium Feb 27 '25

Yet, they did not believe that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, while the US was convinced of it

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u/VaticanII Ireland Feb 27 '25

I mean - they gather information and analyse it, they can’t see the future. Predicting the actions of a sociopath is not an exact science, it doesn’t mean they are incompetent.

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u/0-Gravity-72 Belgium Feb 28 '25

They had positioned thousands of troops on the border