its secret to all those blind to any sort of critical thinking on US foreign policy

And of course, we should all remember that intelligence precedes nearly everything else. Trump’s personal work in Ukraine, Hunter Biden’s, etc. All of it done on top of a layer of intelligence. All of it stage managed, monitored, protected, and spun.

Operation Aerodynamic started in 1953

See, some things aren’t proper secrets, but when acknowledging them is made taboo, we must act as if they’ve been uncovered. We’ll treat the ostensibly open and accessible science around linearly increasing Long COVID risk this way someday, when the taboo against acknowledging it degrades. More often than not, when the exposé revealing details of an open secret comes out like this, it’s because someone involved feels the need to brag.

This is something that the American Congress needs to know. What they have done as a service – and what Valeriy [Kondratyuk] has done personally – has saved the U.S. taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars. Maybe even billions of dollars," said a former U.S. official.

Uh… I’m gonna say that the war cost much more than however much they saved