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I get the idea as a layman from the outside that spies all sort of run in the same circles for obvious reasons, they are getting and exchanging value with eacho
by tsunamifury 3y ago
I get the idea as a layman from the outside that spies all sort of run in the same circles for obvious reasons, they are getting and exchanging value with eachother and constantly trying to recruit eachother etc. So yesterdays recruit is tomorrows terrorist. And if you’re a spy who is actually connected you’ve likely met with them and used them for info in the past. I assume it’s just how spycraft works.
It’s likely a deeply unpleasant and not generally understandable business. I don’t say that as an excuse rather that it’s just who gets attracted to and works in the scene and how they network.
- ethbr0 3y agoThat sounds a lot like corporate leadership.
- tboyd47 3y ago> So yesterdays recruit is tomorrows terrorist. Or perhaps they are all terrorists.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago"Terrorism" is a political label defined by relationship to state power. From a state perspective a terrorist you support or endorse is simply an ally or asset. Your support is what makes them definitionally not a terrorist, and by removing it you change the category of their actions to terrorism.
- dexwiz 3y agoSounds very similar to privateers.
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- phpisthebest 3y ago>So yesterdays recruit is tomorrows terrorist. That is a by product of the decades old, failed, and terrible US Policy of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" which has causes more global destabilization, and hardship worldwide than anything since Communism left the world stage.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Communism left the world stage. That... didn’t happen.