Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Why our leadership chose to hold back on intel sharing until that close to the operation starting boggles my mind.
A few weeks earlier would have allowed for better prep in Ukraine.
I don't think they did - your quote says:
The customary intelligence briefing at the top of the meeting contained a stark warning: Russia was poised to commence its anticipated full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the preceding months, the United States had been strategically downgrading and declassifying intelligence to warn Ukraine
It was just the latest intelligence about the imminent they needed to share that date (and the obvious sanitising of it to avoid revealing sources). The UK started piling NLAW missiles into Ukraine from the 17th January, and other Allies sent materiel over the next month before hostilities started