1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

The decision to disable intelligence sharing with Ukraine is a dangerous precedent as it effectively shuts down Ukraine’s use of HIMARS. It is a travesty that we cannot reliably help our allies even when we have pledged security guarantees following the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. However, the damage done here is twofold outside Ukraine. First, by abandoning Ukraine we are sending a strong message to our allies that America cannot be trusted. Second, arms sales to those allies significantly expands our defense capabilities. If we demonstrate that we can provide a defense system, but then turn that system off due to politics, it hurts our ability to sell arms to other countries. Not only does this hurt US jobs, but it hurts the economy of scale which makes our arms industry work. For both moral and national security reasons, I implore you to do whatever is in your power to restore our intelligence sharing with Ukraine.