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Since July 11, 2021, Cuba has been roiled by protests. During that time, also, four popular generals have been found dead. Officially, they were killed by COVID. Unofficially, I suspect they were killed by Cuban intelligence because they were suspected of planning to use the protests to further their political agenda. Read on to find out more.
BRANDON J. WEICHERT | REAL CLEAR WORLD There have been many untruths spoken about the American role in Iran since … More
“This is the endless treadmill that the civilised world is on: Libyans (and others like them) disturb the peace of the world. In turn, the West tries to kill those who would impose their will on others (because the others include us).
It is a recurrent police action and no more than that is needed; it is pointless to stay around to do some nation-building – the mistake of Afghanistan.”
“The next time some hack tries to argue that the War in Afghanistan was the “good war,” just remember Shakespeare’s old line about life being a “Tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Much like his jog through the deserts of Iraq, former President Bush’s War in Afghanistan lost sight of the real enemy: jihadist terror networks in favor of an unpalatable regime (in this case, the Taliban).”
“Fear drove American policymakers to abandon practices they deemed as too cumbersome for protecting Americans from terrorists. Their assumption was both right and wrong. I do believe that the CIA’s torture program helped to break otherwise implacable terrorists in time to save some American lives (and give other viable intelligence on terror operations and organization).”
“Fact is, since the original National Security Act of 1947 was passed, the world—and the requirements for national security—have changed immeasurably. Meanwhile, our most important institutions for national defense have only gotten larger (but not necessarily better at defending the country). They’ve become pigs—led by bureaucratic sheep—in a world of wolves. And pigs get slaughtered.”
“If DARPA and other ‘innovation hubs’ in the government cannot or will not accomplish their core mission, then they are unnecessary and should be cut.”
I talk about my groundbreaking article on the timeline of the evolution of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
In this article I assess where the intelligence community and the Trump Administration’s relationship is headed in the wake of news that the intel community is withholding intelligence from Trump and that the Trump Administration is supposedly suspicious of the intelligence community.
THE WEICHERT REPORT 