aratusofsicyon.bsky.social
Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
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GOOD take
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I mean they do glaze Franco pretty hard…
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Much obliged!
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Great quote, hadn’t heard it before but it’s going to stick in my head for sure. Where’d you find it, if you don’t mind me asking?
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Kevin’s the GOAT
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And it always sucks.
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Unfortunately I think this underrates how many are doing this for the love of the game
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I do wonder how much liaison consists of going “what the fuck?!?” to equally bemused USG counterparts these days…
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This is what PME is like
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They’re very bad at their cover job (stopping crimes) but still quite handy at their real job (doing crimes)
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If motte-and-bailey were a person.
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Please god let me read this
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Pardon me then, I think I’m out of the loop? Is your name Cantor?
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…The Republican Speaker?
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Makes sense. Tbh I am definitely at risk of over interpreting the USSR parallels. In my defence though, it is kinda hilarious how much the KGB/GRU rivalry lines up with ISB/Military Intelligence!
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I mean YMMV, but that tracks for me insofar as the idea of COMPNOR seems to be based around exerting political control over the various internal security organs. Obviously the analogy isn’t one to one but it’s sort of like the security service ultimately being subject to the Party, no?
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Ah, I was taking that one as gospel, not least because it absolutely whips that Disney contracted a proper historian to write it. What is the evidence for them as rival agencies? Nothing I saw in Andor contradicted the book as far as I could tell.
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Oh my mistake, I missed it under the civil service. I thought it was under COMPNOR though? My understanding was that COMPNOR is to ISB what the Ministry of the Interior was to the KGB.
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I understand, and you’ve done something crazy cool here, but isn’t this kind of like having an org chart for the Soviet Union that doesn’t include the KGB?
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On the one hand, this is is amazing. On the other... why no breakdown of COMPNOR???
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Yeah that was what really convinced me that the showrunner really wasn’t SIS, despite his (rather obnoxious really) hinting. Everyone knows that when SIS needs SAS stuff done they… ask the SAS lmao
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Honestly a remade Sandbaggers with a larger budget (for the show, NOT the team) would whip unimaginable ass. Might even be doable too, if you pitch it as Slow Horses gloomy older brother.
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I can't tell if the identity of the speaker makes this ironic or apt, but either way I'm sad.
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Wish they'd named it after something better than Shirer, but what can you do 🤷♂️
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That book absolutely whips.
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bsky.app/profile/arat...
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“SIS has a Special Activities Division, but it’s literally just 3 guys and a cargo plane they borrow off the RAF” does feel like a satire of the British government tbh.
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It’s a weird vibe, because they’re basically trying to do early Putinism, but their strongman is Stupid Yeltsin.
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Something something unicorn mug…
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I regret to inform you who Carney’s strongest soldiers are…
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I honestly can’t see why people are bugging out about this given what happens when you increase supply…
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Look, alls I’m saying is that Partagaz would be keen on the distinction, and you irritate the Major at your peril
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Sorry to be that guy, but he's a penetration agent, not a double agent. If he confessed all to the ISB and Partagaz decided to have him feed false info to Luthen then he'd be a double
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Klippy is running with this same take lmao
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George is always prepared to die with the lie.
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True, although I did enjoy Moyar’s revisionist history of Phoenix. The useful thing about angry contrarians is that they’re sometimes willing to go into incredible detail!
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Pray go on...
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For “rarely” read “almost never” lol
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Insider? I barely- *my phone is immediately bricked*
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Post-Trump, the US becoming the fiery sword of global woke socialism spearheaded by a radicalized Bill Kristol is the funniest outcome we could get.