On the advanced level, since the creation of the CIA and its clones, we have been in an almost constant state of warfare and destabilizing governments around the world. 6 plus decades of that crap and honest people debate about whether they were involved in the periphery of murdering JFK. Its beyond debate that they have repeatedly used drug and weapons trafficking to fund various black ops.
Before they existed, with the USA was much less inclined to go around the world doing that kind of thing.
I always heard that’s how we avoid another Pearl Harbor. I always thought the next people who considered a sunday morning sneak attack might look at all of Japan as a smoking ruin and Hiroshima and Nagasaki being nuked and feel deterred.
The intelligence community has become a shadow government, and is not a force for good or the American way.
You’ve summed it up quite nicely- the shadow government.
Shadow government of the globalist concerns.