The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the United States about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean Sea because it does not want to be complicit in ongoing military strikes against said vessels and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. For years, the U.K., which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the U.S. Coast Guard could interdict them, allowing the vessels to be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized. But shortly after the U.S. began launching lethal strikes against the boats in September, however, the U.K. grew concerned that the U.S. might use intelligence provided by the British to select targets, with British officials believing the series of strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which have so far killed 76 people, violate international law, and amount to “extrajudicial killing.”

Submarine bases for the Russian Northern Fleet appear to be almost empty, according to recent satellite imagery, with an unusual number of cruise missile, ballistic missile, and attack submarines currently out to sea, possibly in response to recent changes in defensive posture by nuclear-powered submarines operated by the U.S. Navy and NATO.