Nation Leaders do play tit for tat, and speak volumes by who they see and where they are as they travel. Not to mention military moves, which speak a language to one another.
Media downplays or hides the truth most of the time..but generally the truth is there, just hidden in the small print so to speak.
The beauty of it is sharing your intelligence with other TM’ers and they with you. Then there’s the LEO’s who get the reports, hopefully enough of them are rogue & can bypass BO