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I argued the CIA clearly clearly isn't capable of entirely secretly creating protests. You insisted they "foment them" instead. Now you're claiming they also fa

• somenameforme 3y ago
  Why would you think it'd be amazing? You can achieve vastly more acting openly than you can by acting secretly. The US overtly and openly rallying anti-government protesters, encouraging them to overthrow their government, right in front of said government, was just a ridiculous power play. It's going to not only help embolden the existing protesters, but bring every single person with an inkling of anti-government sentiment out of the wood work because "this might be it!" And well, it was "it." The only reason the CIA exists (in terms of ops, and not intelligence) is for secrecy. The "problem" is that in Ukraine there's zero debate as to whether the democratic government was fairly elected - they were. And we, the country that runs around raving about the sanctity of democracy, were working to overthrow them. It's really not a good look, even less so when we started doing it openly (if only because now I can simply point to videos showing it clear as day), and one of the endless examples of how you create people like me.