The less racist a country is, the harder it is to detect enemy spies. #showerthoughts

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What? I don’t understand.

    Spies are usually able to blend in with the local population. And theres plenty of people who have turned spy for an enemy nation.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yup. spies result from a large variety of motivations ranging from financial - $ - to misguided patriotism (we’ll punish those libs by leaking info) to outright ideological devotion - whether that’s to making sure there’s a level playing field by leaking nuclear secrets (Fuchs) or helping the soviets outright due to indoctrination like the Rosenbergs…

      racism is rarely the sole motivation for espionage and I’d say it’s on the lower end of possible motivations in terms of occurence. A fun read is The Second Oldest Profession, tho it’s dated.