• dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    I have no doubt that the CIA has had plans for other countries. Including the drug wars south of the US. Things were planned as much as 40 years back. I wonder what they have planned for 2068?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      18·
      5 days ago

      I think a lot of it is just opportunism rather than concrete plans decades into the future. They decide that they want to destroy a country, and then they identify the weak points that they can attack, and just keep chipping away at that. And when opportunities arise they exploit them.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    5 days ago

    I know that it’s common for militaries (or at least western ones, I’m unaware if it’s common practice for countries that don’t constantly bomb the rest of the planet) to write up basic plans on how to fight/invade neighboring countries even if they have zero intentions of actually doing so anytime soon so they have something to build off of in the event that relations go sour quickly rather than having to come up with something from scratch.

    I’m curious if this might be the CIA’s version of this, or if they were always set on couping the Entity’s neighbors regardless of their existing governments playing ball or not.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      The Pentagon’s sole purpose is to come up with strategies for fighting against every country on the planet in every configuration and scenario. There’s some analyst there right now whose job is to figure out how to overthrow the government of Nauru and the best way to invade the island.