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  • Sabbo [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    I swear the only successful thing the CIA has done is convince people they know what they are doing. Like, do they simply operate in volume, because it seems like they are constantly taking 'L's

    • NPa [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      honestly I think the world was just a very different place back when they had their most successful operations. The US had a massive technological advantage over the often very unstable former colonies and war-torn countries rebuilding after the war, borders were looser, electronic surveillance not really an option for many third-world countries. Like, back then, a CIA hit squad could just bring a bunch of guns on a commercial flight, sexually harass the stewardesses, get drunk and pop a few quaaludes, assassinate an African head of state and be back on base by lunch. Can't do that anymore, because of woke. trump-kaneki

      anyway

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      The grim thing is that they are such a powerful organization that they can afford to do the strategic equivalent of human wave tactics and just keep throwing schemes at the wall until one sticks.

      • Sabbo [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        True, but from the last few decades it looks like they are running out of fodder

      • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Those burgerbrains only know human wave tactics and eating corn syrup.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      Fidel Castro dying of old age demonstrated just how poor the CIA is at their job.

          • miz [any, any]
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            3 months ago

            it's kind of a "they have to be lucky every time, we only have to be lucky once" situation

    • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      It's easy to get caught failing when you have ops in every country on the planet. Ik ik paper tigers or whatever, but don't sleep on them

      • Sabbo [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Fair, I just want the fed reading these comments to feel hurt 😈

  • coolusername@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    my link to venezuelan fishermen singing a song about how they defeated the US coup under trump is dead

  • Weedian [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Can we get another picture of piss trickling towards the merc's own face again