- Former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel demanded an investigation into President Joe Biden over reports they shared Russia intel with Beijing
- Senior Biden officials reportedly did so in a bid to persuade China to help de-escalate Vladimir Putin’s aggressive military buildup at Ukraine’s borders
- The Russian autocrat gave his forces the order to attack late last week
- China reportedly shared the intelligence they got from US with Russia
Former Pentagon official Kash Patel took aim at the Biden administration on Sunday over recent reports that the White House shared intelligence about Russia’s troop movements near Ukraine with China.
President Joe Biden‘s senior officials held six meetings across three months with counterparts in Beijing as Russian President Vladimir Putin aggressively amassed troops at Ukraine’s borders, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The US was reportedly hoping Chinese President Xi Jinping would dissuade Putin from attacking its neighbor. The Western pleas for help were dismissed each time, with China claiming an invasion wasn’t likely.
Meanwhile Beijing was sharing the sensitive information with Moscow.
‘But what is tantamount, and disrupts American national security, is that we’re actually doing that. We, as the United States, are actually sharing classified information that jeopardizes Ukrainian national security interests, European national security interests and American lives,’ Patel claimed, despite no US troops being sent to directly confront Russia in Ukraine.
‘It’s being shared with our enemy who is sharing it with the next biggest enemy of America. It is just something that never happened under Trump, and the fact that it’s happening under Biden needs to be fully investigated.’