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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If that network of bases has resulted in the present state of the war, like if we have that whole thing and one of the complaints about the Avdiivka retreat was that they couldn't coordinate it because the different radios couldn't communicate, funding them more seems silly. Either they're a completely useless asset or despite their work the Ukrainian military is as incompetent as the Afghan National Army. The CIA was created to outsmart Russians and they're shitting their butt-asses when that's tested in the first post-Soviet war against Russians.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd say Yale isn't giving the CIA their best

But they are and that's kind of funny

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

I try to on a frequent basis

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

In light of anxieties around the $61 billion package, Ukrainian intelligence agencies are now worried whether the CIA will "abandon" them, as "it happened in Afghanistan before," one senior Ukrainian officer told the NYT.

Not just Afghanistan, but Venezuela (Guaido), Russia (Navalny), Belarus, Hong Kong, and Vietnam (Diem).

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 6+ times… you get fooled again again

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The CIA was created to outsmart Russians and they're shitting their butt-asses when that's tested in the first post-Soviet war against Russians.

The neoliberal ideology of thatcher and reagan to dismantle the state and privatise literally everything has led to this. This was fine up until inter-capitalist conflict has emerged but now we're seeing how a strong state with more control is more effective at war.

Inter-capitalist conflict might be the thing that pushes them back towards older methods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The problem is that once you rip out all the copper wire, it's hard to put it back, ya know? There isn't some big neoliberalism dial that they can just nudge back a bit, the infrastructure and resources they would need are either gone or too hollowed out to be useful. They need some new option instead, which is what's driving this global experimentation with new neo-fascist projects.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because the funding is not supposed to win wars, but to make a certain segment of the elites very rich.

America has lost many wars over the past century, but it’s always made some people very rich in the process.

And now in Ukraine, it’s the Ukrainian and European lives that will die against Russia, not Americans. It’s the perfect opportunity to get extremely rich off this war.

It’s the capital flows that matter, when trying to understand capitalism.