• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    This is what accepting “unknown unknowns” as justification for war 20+ years ago would always inevitably lead to…

    Intentional ignorance of terrorist activities because any attack would be worth the justification to go to war.

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    They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

    And like the CI-12 unit, several senior officials were ousted or reassigned because of their involvement in Trump-related investigations, sources say. The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury.

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    What if something happpens in American soil? This is really dangerous. Do they want a reason for martial law or 9/11 unity? But on what cost?

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      The Horst Wessel strategy failed, so now they are trying Israel’s 10/7 strategy. Leave the door open, aid the enemy, look the other way, and hope they inflict enough damage and horror to justify any manner of atrocity in response.

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    Something still doesn’t fully add up in all this. Krasnov is obviously still in the pocket of Putin, so what is Putin’s game here with respect to Venezuela and Iran?

    Do we even know Ayatollah is actually dead? What’s going on with Maduro?