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1. When it doesn't simply ignore inconvenient laws and that pesky Bill of Rights, the CIA also simply outsources spying on US citizens to its foreign puppets, particularly the British.

2. Re Ukraine. The latest modified limited hangout begs the following questions:

A. If the CIA knew what Ukraine was up to all along, why did the CIA have to change its story so many times?

B. If the CIA knew what Ukraine was up to all along, why didn't they do anything about it? A simple "bitch, cut it out!" would have sufficed.

C. If Ukraine blew up NS, why didn't Germany invoke Article 5 and demand that NATO attack Ukraine, the way the US did after 9/11?

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Such matters examined further from a geo-strategic perspective . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/

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Way back, John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia, on returning from time spent at President George W. Bush' ranch pre-Iraq II War, annunciated Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine and troubled his very important self to explain that we reserve the exclusive right to attack another country if, by our exclusive reckoning, they pose an unacceptable threat, however defined. Nuclear armed or otherwise and so, quite ecumenical about who they will kill.

None of these "leaders" are clinically insane, albeit functionally crazy.

This then causes those other countries to give serious thought to the doctrine themselves and Daniel Ellsberg in his book The Doomsday Machine works though the intellectual convolutions that attend this.

Possession of nuclear weapons is one thing. Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine for nuclear armed states invites consideration of a first strike.

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Mr. Anders Rasmussen, economics graduate and tax expert, also a former NATO head, is now boosting (his Washington approved address) for all the weapons systems The Ukraine can use to finish their campaign quickly, so they get to their main threat - China!

No loss of the plot line here.

Functionally crazy or clinically insane?

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Consigliere Victoria Nuland, Capodecina Joe and Family Goombas have nowhere to go except to double down. They are all war criminals in Washington - London - Brussels - Kyiv now.

Like a Mafia Capodecina, Washington can never lose face and must go to war to avoid so.

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