No, we have to try to rebuild somehow. But the commies have no concept of mercy. They simply kill the opposition.
Perhaps we can take out a few of theirs to even it out.
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Perhaps we can take out a few of theirs to even it out.”
You don’t kill or imprison spies unless you can’t make them double agents to serve china by feeding us what ever information China wants us to believe.
This is basic Sun Tzu strategy that all Chinese officers study. It is far more likely that these handful of spies were only the minority that refused to be converted spies.
Today known as double agents.