its secret to all those blind to any sort of critical thinking on US foreign policy
And of course, we should all remember that intelligence precedes nearly everything else. Trump's personal work in Ukraine, Hunter Biden's, etc. All of it done on top of a layer of intelligence. All of it stage managed, monitored, protected, and spun.
See, some things aren't proper secrets, but when acknowledging them is made taboo, we must act as if they've been uncovered. We'll treat the ostensibly open and accessible science around linearly increasing Long COVID risk this way someday, when the taboo against acknowledging it degrades. More often than not, when the exposé revealing details of an open secret comes out like this, it's because someone involved feels the need to brag.
Yeah, it's kind of funny how the narrative has gone from
There are no CIA bases in Ukraine
There might be CIA bases in Ukraine, but only because of the current war and they haven't done any fighting
There have been CIA bases in Ukraine since Russia took Crimea
There have been CIA bases since 2015, shortly after the coup
There have been CIA bases before the coup, but they didn't do anything about the coup
This is something that the American Congress needs to know. What they have done as a service -- and what Valeriy [Kondratyuk] has done personally -- has saved the U.S. taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars. Maybe even billions of dollars," said a former U.S. official.
Uh... I'm gonna say that the war cost much more than however much they saved
