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by MattGaiser 1570 days ago
https://www.euronews.com/2022/02/28/uk-ukraine-crisis-eu-bor...

This is being openly done by the EU already. I can't imagine that the CIA would lag the EU.

It seems like pictures would come before weapons in what nations would be willing to give.

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Nah.

One gives away capabilities.

The other one is a parachute and a box.

I sincerely doubt anyone doubts the capabilities of western nations to take high res pictures with some of the thousands of satellites they have access to.

Providing Intel might leak information about it's sources yes, which is always a consideration. In the case of satellite pictures this could be, which satellites were in the correct positions in orbit and were used... but honestly I doubt the russian government is not aware of "most" of those satellites and "most" of their capabilities. I don't quite see your argument. The ties of those satellites to certain companies etc might make them targets for hacking and all that... so it's not risk free but I doubt it's a large risk.