• tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Don’t know if it’s true, but if it is, kinda funny that Trump’s CIA has been outsmarted by Venezuela.

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      13 hours ago

      South Americans broadly have been dealing with the CIA for a long time. Even the Romans knew not to fight the same people too many times because they’ll get hip to your fighting style and they’ll eventually beat you at your own game.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah it’s a big claim, would be cool to eventually see evidence it was true but I’m not sure how they’d ever be able to prove it. I doubt anyone gets a wire transfer that just says it’s from the CIA

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      13 hours ago

      What exactly is funny? Do you have reasons to believe that the Venezuelan counter-spy bureau is ineffective? Or you’re just a USA chauvinist who thinks that everything Venezuelan is shittier than US-ian just because?

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        12 hours ago

        Venuzuelan budget: $22bn
        CIA budget: $15bn

        When a single intelligence agency’s budget is comparable to an entire country’s, it’s reasonable to assume that agency will be able to persevere in almost any contest.

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          58 minutes ago

          One trashcan for cia - 10000$ One trashcan for venezuela - idk maybe 10$?

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          9 hours ago

          They’ve also had decades of experience to back them up. They’re not just a newly spun-up agency who’s been given a multi-billion dollar budget.

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            8 hours ago

            That being said, South America in general has contended with CIA interference for decades. It’s not unreasonable to think they’ve grown wise to their playbook.

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          13 hours ago

          Venezuelan agency budget, ~$200 million. CIA - 78 billion. When your budget is 365 times as much, I could understand why you’d think they would be more sophisticated.