03-05-2022, 07:39 PM
Not that it is funny... but if one is President and wants one's foreign policy to not blow up in one's face, it is wise to be on good terms with the CIA. Yes, we all know that it has done some odious stuff against Arbenz, Mossadegh, and Allende... but at the behest of Presidents. On the other hand the CIA was the only entity capable of honing in on Osama Bin Laden so that Seal Team 6 could whack him.. and practically ensure the re-election of President Obama.
Trump had at best a stormy (and I don't mean "Stormy Daniels") relationship with the CIA. He could accept Putin's flattery as good faith. I just got the latest issue of Time Magazine involving the Russo-Ukrainian War (what else can one call it?)... and it seems that neither President Biden nor Zelensky was caught off guard. Only the CIA could get that assessment.
At this point we can be glad that Donald Trump was in no position to muck things up. Contrary to the cynical assessment of the usual devotee of Machiavellian practice, integrity and decency are survival values. So of course is rational thought.
Trump had at best a stormy (and I don't mean "Stormy Daniels") relationship with the CIA. He could accept Putin's flattery as good faith. I just got the latest issue of Time Magazine involving the Russo-Ukrainian War (what else can one call it?)... and it seems that neither President Biden nor Zelensky was caught off guard. Only the CIA could get that assessment.
At this point we can be glad that Donald Trump was in no position to muck things up. Contrary to the cynical assessment of the usual devotee of Machiavellian practice, integrity and decency are survival values. So of course is rational thought.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.