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All the massive five-eyes apparatus does you no good if the people supposed to act on that intelligence are corrupted, and look to their own interests first: h
by deogeo 7y ago
All the massive five-eyes apparatus does you no good if the people supposed to act on that intelligence are corrupted, and look to their own interests first:
https://www.jonathanpollard.org/1998/040798b.htm https://www.jonathanpollard.org/1998/040798b.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Deception-Clinton-America-Chinese-Military/dp/0976116804 https://www.amazon.com/Deception-Clinton-America-Chinese-Mil...
https://www.businessinsider.de/china-acquiring-military-secrets-2016-6 https://www.businessinsider.de/china-acquiring-military-secr...
https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/the-troubling-reason-why-biden-is-so-soft-on-china/ https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/the-troubling-reason-why-biden...
- kipchak 7y agoI wonder if it's a bit of a race between how much you can spend versus how much you loose to corruption, like filling a barrel with holes in it by adding water faster. Supposedly the US's classified intelligence program budget is 81.1 billion, larger than 9 of the next top ten foreign nation's total military expenditures. https://sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_milex_2018_0.pdf https://sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_milex_...