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Hackers, Havana Syndrome, And Other Invisible Russian Aggressions That Only The CIA Can See

"Havana syndrome is a mysterious illness whose symptoms include vertigo, nausea, and billions of dollars in new cold war military spending."
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee is reportedly marking up its hilarious Havana Syndrome Attacks Response Act this week.

https://twitter.com/aidachavez/status/1450562819632549894

Havana Syndrome allegedly causes hangover-like symptoms and has not been proven to actually exist in any tangible way. It has been commonly attributed to psychogenic illness, Cuban crickets, and actual hangovers.

https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner/status/1443322994311454723

At the same time, virulent Russiagater @juliaioffe has published an anonymously-sourced article proclaiming that the Kremlin is responsible for this mysterious alleged ailment.

https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1450843406205440003

To get a sense for the integrity of the sourcing in Ioffe's report, here's an actual paragraph from the article:

There's also this gem. Ah well if an anonymous government official tells Julia Ioffe that Havana Syndrome is real then hot damn that's good enough for me.

Apart from anonymous individuals, Ioffe also cites a "retired" CIA officer named Marc Polymeropoulos, who attests that he himself came down with a case of Havana Syndrome that was so bad it forced him to "retire".

Oh wow the retired CIA spook had to "retire" because he was afflicted with a condition which just so happens to advance CIA cold war hysteria about a CIA-targeted nation, and how he's spending his "retirement" telling cold war propagandists about it.

It's just so interesting how Russia keeps attacking America in unverifiable and invisible ways that only US intelligence can see. First it was claims that Russian hackers attacked American democracy in 2016, and now it's invisible microwave beams from secret Kremlin ray guns.

Someday soon we may turn on the news to see footage of an empty Capitol Building while a reporter solemnly tells us that it has just been stormed by GRU agents injected with invisibility serum.

I'm old enough to remember when the US war machine needed actual, physical events to justify the advancements of its military agendas, like planes crashing into buildings. Now those agendas are justified by invisible, unverifiable allegations for which the evidence is classified.

Believing the Russians are using ray guns to cause hangover-like symptoms in US government employees is no less bat shit insane than believing in 5G vaccine mind control nanobots. Literally the only difference is that one is endorsed by the mass media and the other is not.

When a poor person says spies are attacking their brain with microwave beams it's called paranoid schizophrenia. When a US government operative says it, it's called Havana Syndrome.

Hackers, Havana Syndrome, And Other Invisible Russian Aggressions That Only The CIA Can See (Audio)

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