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minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 days agoHistorically, whenever civil war suddenly breaks out in any country (not just in the middle east), it’s the CIA 9 times out of 10
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·5 days agoNo, it isn’t. The CIA are not good at statecraft. The FSB/GRU and formerly the KGB were great at that stuff. The CIA “won” the cold war because the CCCP was incompetent not because America was good at anything.
minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoMorons say that every time, until declassification occurs decades later. At some point you need to start seeing the signs
minus-squareMicrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·5 days agoThat may not be wrong historically. But the CIA had what interest exactly in toppling the US-supported authoritarian regimes in the Middle East with the “Arab Spring” in 2011?
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·5 days agoit’s wrong historically. the CIA was never good at that stuff
Historically, whenever civil war suddenly breaks out in any country (not just in the middle east), it’s the CIA 9 times out of 10
No, it isn’t. The CIA are not good at statecraft. The FSB/GRU and formerly the KGB were great at that stuff. The CIA “won” the cold war because the CCCP was incompetent not because America was good at anything.
Morons say that every time, until declassification occurs decades later. At some point you need to start seeing the signs
That may not be wrong historically.
But the CIA had what interest exactly in toppling the US-supported authoritarian regimes in the Middle East with the “Arab Spring” in 2011?
it’s wrong historically. the CIA was never good at that stuff