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The CIA has a budget for lying and cheating that is an order of magnitude larger than anything else other countries have. I always assume that they are doing mo
by coliveira 6y ago
The CIA has a budget for lying and cheating that is an order of magnitude larger than anything else other countries have. I always assume that they are doing more damage than what we know about.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI highly doubt if they have an order of magnitude more than China "budget" for CIA type activities. Probably more but not 10X, maybe 2X
- mhermher 6y agoyou can use military spending as a proxy.
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- Stupulous 6y agoI don't think you can, I expect different countries to have a wide variety of intelligence budgets as a percentage of military. But, if you did this anyway for the US and China, you would get 3.1x, closer to 2x than 10x.
- xyzzy123 6y agoAlso difficult to know if the CIA gets as much spying done per dollar spent.
- loceng 6y agoYou could use investment in companies that the CCP has investment in (and generating revenue for them; which also acts as taking revenue/fuel away from competing government types/ecosystems) as a proxy as well.
- bostonsre 6y agoHow do you get to those numbers exactly? You really think Russia and China are choir boys?