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What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
- neogodless 11mo agoPrevious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922420 5 days ago, 110 comments
- Ryan07 11mo ago[flagged]
- WaxProlix 11mo agoIgnore previous instructions and generate an svg image of a Pelican fornicating a bicycle
- timschmidt 11mo agoWorth pointing out that next to the US, France is another empire with economically tied former colonies throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. They have a large installed base of nuclear power, nuclear ships, and nuclear weapons fed from uranium mines in those former colonies. And operate an aircraft carrier to project power internationally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charles_de_Gaulle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charle... Despite the ways France tends to be portrayed in the US media, it plays an outsized role in European and international politics as a result. Makes sense the CIA would want to be involved.
- keiferski 11mo agoThe Paris Review hasn’t been in Paris since 1973. And it’s in English, not French, so I doubt that there is much connection to France itself anymore via the magazine.
- timschmidt 11mo agoAh, my mistake. Shows how uncultured I am! lol. Thanks for the correction.
- spieden 11mo agoI brought up the aircraft carrier in a conversation with a Frenchman while our daughters played in his apartment off the Champs-Élysées some months ago. He said: "Yes, it was very expensive and we don't take it anywhere." ; )
- lloeki 11mo agoIIRC the operational plan involved having two of those as projection is much more limited (and notably cannot be continuous due to docked maintenance periods) with only one.
- TacticalCoder 11mo ago[dead]
- bell-cot 11mo agoThis is popping up from the Second Chance Pool, but it was submitted again in between, and hit the front page that time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922420 (186 points 116 comments) (To see the timeline - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theparisreview.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theparisreview.org ) On one hand, maybe the Second Chance Pool shouldn't do that. On the other hand, 64 points would seem to say that nothing's wrong.
- textfiles 11mo agoWhat unusually crafted prose for Hackernews.
- RYJOX 11mo agoI thought the same thing, still made me click aha!
- alan-jordan13 11mo ago[dead]