• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    “Disband the CIA but popular discontent in dictatorships is generally not a CIA plot” is where I’m coming from.

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      We know what happens when the CIA tries to home grow a movement against a dictator from scratch

      It was called the bay of pigs, and it was such a disaster it’s why the CIA started exclusively using the tactic of attaching themselves to already existent movements.