Posted on 03/29/2022 7:10:05 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Discusses Russian espionage today, how Putin miscalculated re Ukraine, etc.
Now he's US citizen and no longer Russian asset.
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Does she mention that we actively encourage the importation of large numbers of spies from China?
Spies make the world worse. No matter the side.
Spying has always been Russia’s best secret weapon.
They cast their nets far and wide in everywhere. Russia is a spy state. Every Russian is a spy.
I thought he was a he. Curses.
Bridge of Spies. Interesting movie about Russia/USA spying in late 50s.
If you don’t do it, you get it done to you.
Why mention the obvious.
Spies are a curse on Russia.
They put all their effort into spying on countries rather than developing their own industries.
They are not in the least an incompetent people. But they are governed incompetently.
Says there are probably more spies in US and Europe now than before
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We even elect them to the Presidency
This is such a good point.
Putin’s supporters here and elsewhere like to emphasize that Putin brought Russia back from the depths of the 1990s and his authoritarian governance through vote-rigging and assassinations and so on are just the price to be paid for stable progress.
But the measure of success is not where Russia is now versus where it was when Putin took power.
The proper measure is what did Putin achieve given what he had to work with?
Russia’s greatest resource is not its oil and gas and other mineral assets. It is Russia’s people.
Putin isn’t working with the population of Somalia. He was given a highly literate, intelligent population with a culture that highly values science and technology as his resource and he failed utterly to even begin to realize the potential of his people.
Putin is a failure in so many ways.
They’re a curse on America, Israel, Europe, everywhere. So are nuclear bombs, wars, fossil fuels (but not because of global warming, which is BS), etc. We live in an imperfect world, and efforts to perfect it are slow and cumbersome, and marred by bad faith and mendacity, and all of these things remain necessary evils for the foreseeable future.
Bigotry, class envy, fanaticism, etc., are evils of choice. And some choose to wallow in them, along with sexual perversion, corruption of children, political corruption, etc. No need to name names, I think.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Foe Brandon wouldn’t be a spy; he’s too stupid. He’s a meat puppet for the real spies, who work for principals unknown at present.
It would be interesting to see an apples to apples comparison of Russia’s progress in the post-Soviet era versus other ex Soviet states. They all would have started with similar “raw material” but you’d expert to see different outcomes thanks to different leadership.
He did utilize their weakness for corruption, self-dealing and stubbornness, as well as suspicion of outsiders. But it seems it didn’t give him complete control over them. Some of them keep protesting his war, as if they have any say in it. So in one of his latest missives, he talks about uncovering and punishing “traitors,” like spitting out flies that accidentally landed in one’s mouth.
Purges are coming. Just like in the old days, comrades!
Bullwinkle. Don’t you think they look familiar?
Can’t rightly say, Rocky. They seem nice enough folks.
The ethos of the gangster. Henry Stimson had it right. Gentlemen do not read other people’s mail. The time of creeps is over. Nations, like men are best when straightforward and upright. America didn’t need a spy agency until WWII. And we shouldn’t hand retained it afterwards.
I saw a lengthy interview a while back. The guy’s story is fascinating, from the years of training in Russia to all the countries he lived in and being provided with a new identity in each one before he finally made it to the U.S. It made it virtually impossible for him to be traced back to Russia.
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