1) I can already guess what happened.
There have been foreign mercenaries in Afghanistan for awhile. Our troops used to have to record shit like what shoes dead combatants had on to identify what regions mercs were operating in.
There have been foreign mercenaries in Afghanistan for awhile. Our troops used to have to record shit like what shoes dead combatants had on to identify what regions mercs were operating in.
2) We’re probably talking about an ‘assessment’, someone pulling a couple clues together and spitting out a hypothesis.
Having not seen the assessment, I’m assuming they determined that mercenaries were being paid on a ‘per kill’ basis, to guarantee good faith efforts by mercs
Having not seen the assessment, I’m assuming they determined that mercenaries were being paid on a ‘per kill’ basis, to guarantee good faith efforts by mercs
3) ‘Good faith’ meaning they weren’t just collecting paychecks getting drunk and fucking goats, they actually had to shoot at our soldiers.
It’s not unheard of; there are mercenary contracts in Eve Online that work the same way with records of kills acting as verification
It’s not unheard of; there are mercenary contracts in Eve Online that work the same way with records of kills acting as verification
4) However, no one knows how anything works anymore and a ‘per kill’ contract suddenly becomes an ‘assassination’ contract, because it sounds scarier. In fact, Schmidt, the dumbfuck DNC hack (he’s on the rat list for a reason) probably is the one who chose to use ‘assassination’
5) So, some analyst somewhere probably thought that hey, it would make sense if the Russians were the ones paying them, and put together some suporting documentation. He may be right, a third party paying mercs to drag out a conflict is also not unheard of.
6) But here’s where the grade-a fucktarded thinking comes in.
‘Something this huge omg Trump must have been briefed on it, because Obama got briefed on EVERYTHING!’
Except Trump wasn’t briefed on it, because it didn’t pass the smell test to get passed up the chain.
‘Something this huge omg Trump must have been briefed on it, because Obama got briefed on EVERYTHING!’
Except Trump wasn’t briefed on it, because it didn’t pass the smell test to get passed up the chain.
7) Remember the state department cables? Most of those were state department personnel making theories and hypotheses as ‘assessments’. Some of them were really fucking DUMB. Anything more than a glance, anything you start digging into, you realize how stupid the state dept is.
8) Of course everyone didn’t read those, they let the news pick and choose, and it did a fair amount of damage to the US’ standing as a country just like Assange intended.
But again, digging deeper, and you realize 1) our State Dept is retarded, and 2) They’re very unsupervised.
But again, digging deeper, and you realize 1) our State Dept is retarded, and 2) They’re very unsupervised.
9) Someone on a forum somewhere awhile ago put out the hypothesis of Clown Shoe Diplomacy.
The theory was that, since the 60’s or so, possibly earier but definitely by the Vietnam War, our state department employees started getting dumber and dumber. Ambassadors especially.
The theory was that, since the 60’s or so, possibly earier but definitely by the Vietnam War, our state department employees started getting dumber and dumber. Ambassadors especially.
10) Our entire foreign policy was being implemented by a progressively dumber bunch of people and other countries started having to deal with total morons representing the US, who acted like such assclowns that they had no idea how to properly respond, and often responded poorly
11) The Gulf War, the one the first Bush ran, when Iraq was attacking Kuwait.
Our representative was talking face to face to his counterpart in Iraq, telling Iraq to back off or the US would attack.
April Glaspie. Look her up.
She was the ambassador to Iraq in the leadup.
Our representative was talking face to face to his counterpart in Iraq, telling Iraq to back off or the US would attack.
April Glaspie. Look her up.
She was the ambassador to Iraq in the leadup.
12) The story is super interesting, but long story short, the Iraqis thought she was a joke. They didn’t take her seriously at all.
I have to imagine the Russians, having clowned the Clintons repeatedly, didn’t take Hillary as Secretary of State seriously either.
I have to imagine the Russians, having clowned the Clintons repeatedly, didn’t take Hillary as Secretary of State seriously either.
13) And then, seriously, Kerry? Fuck, no wonder the Mullahs made a clownshow out of the Obama admin with negotiations in the Iran Deal.
Look at the cavalcade of fuckups from the impeachment hearings.
These are the people running our foreign policy.
Imagine how bad our intel is
Look at the cavalcade of fuckups from the impeachment hearings.
These are the people running our foreign policy.
Imagine how bad our intel is
14) So think about this. Schmidt, the New York Times jackass, gets leaked a piece of intel and assumes it must not only be legit, but that Trump must have heard about it, and runs a story about it.
Thousands of assessments get written and never see the fucking light of day.
Thousands of assessments get written and never see the fucking light of day.
15) Think about it. I pulled my understanding of merc contracts from a fucking VIDEO GAME ABOUT INTERNET SPACESHIPS, where to be fair a sophisticated system of mercenary work was created by the playerbase.
Does my knowledge belong in an intel assessment? FUCK NO.
Does my knowledge belong in an intel assessment? FUCK NO.
16) Generations of clown shoes in and out the door later, and the unspoken truth about our government is that it is pumping out metric tons of fucking garbage. Most of it never sees the light of day, but people like Schmidt are too fucking stupid to realize that.
17) So all you people saying the assessment is bullshit, yeah, probably. It’s a decent hypothesis, but it probably has absolutely no backing documentation or evidence attached, so it never saw the light of day. I probably did a better job supporting it than the fuckwad writing it
18) However, ‘it makes sense Russians might do this’ and ‘I saw contracts like this in internet spaceship games’ IS NOT SOMETHING YOU TAKE DIPLOMATIC ACTIONS OVER
Unlike what Schmidt and the fuckheads at the failing NYT are trying to make happen.
Because they’re retarded.
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Unlike what Schmidt and the fuckheads at the failing NYT are trying to make happen.
Because they’re retarded.
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