Interview of a Canadian intelligence analyst on his views of the current upheaval at the FBI and elsewhere.

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    It’s going to be Canada. They’re going to call us a terrorist nation so they can deliver us freedom and democracy.

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      “As you can clearly see there is maple syrup on this fake ID and the attacker kept apologizing. Umm… What other stereotypes do we know… Oh, there was also a bunch of hockey sticks found in the bombers… vehicle … Moose… Err… Transportation Mammal. We will not stand for this! Start the invasion we totally didn’t expect to have to do but just so happen to be perfectly ready for at a moments notice!!”

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    Well… Yeah. Most of the prisoners of Guantanamo bay explicitly said that they were radicalised by America killing their Palestinian brothers and sisters.

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    Virtually every single terrorist attack is domestic. We could have a 9/11 but if it’s another white kid from Howell Mochigan or some shit, it’ll be old news in a month.

    Also, as hyperbolic as people were about 9/11, Covid killed that amount of US citizens in literally 1 day and we found a way to not care. America is cooked about stuff like that, it all just depends on what the grifters decide we should think at any given time.

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      Well the gist of the interview was that American intelligence services are in chaos right now after their top-level management got expelled and their “eye is no longer on the ball” in terms of threats from Russia, China, etc. with new personnel being brought in who have no clue what’s going on.

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        with new personnel being brought in who have no clue what’s going on.

        Wow, that’s some incredible optimism.

        At this point, it’s more likely the new personnel being brought in are actively working to further the interests of Russia, China, etc.

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      The attackers won’t consider consequence, their measure is the impact and chance of success (as they mostly only have one shot in a long time)

      For those are hesitant which I doubt there are, trump will keep provoking until he got one.

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    makes sense. last time it was due to an administration that refused to talk with the previous one and this time you can add mass layoffs and chaos across the government.

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      It didn’t have to talk, even. Obama left a document titled ‘how to handle a pandemic’ for the orange doofus to ignore, simply because it was written by a bunch of liberals.

      This time I’m rooting for the bird flu.