My supposition is that the "secret army ... of well-paid specialists in counter-insurgency and violence" would have to be taken on by a foreign power. Namely, it seems, China, possibly collaborating with Russia.
Meanwhile, those specialists are undoubtedly operating on behalf of the US in Ukraine. Which tends to make me increasingly vulnerable to the "if the US is doing it, it must be wrong" type arguments about the war there.
All well-taken, but I go both ways on this.
I have been reading various histories of the CIA and folks like Allen Dulles. Keenan comes up and not in a good light. Sort of surprised me.
My supposition is that the "secret army ... of well-paid specialists in counter-insurgency and violence" would have to be taken on by a foreign power. Namely, it seems, China, possibly collaborating with Russia.
Meanwhile, those specialists are undoubtedly operating on behalf of the US in Ukraine. Which tends to make me increasingly vulnerable to the "if the US is doing it, it must be wrong" type arguments about the war there.