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I don’t think that it’s that crazy to say that this was planned by the CIA.
But that could just be complete paranoïa.
Or that these people are just dropped once they arrive in the USA.
Here's my theory: I think there's a lot of things the CIA has always done to influence public opinion in the U.S. and abroad, and they've never been above doing some fucked up and unethical things to manipulate the public.
I guess around the time of the patriot act, the president was given the power to pick who leads the CIA during their presidential term (which seems like an all around terrible fucking idea, and it's kind of crazy we don't talk about this more often).
So while you've always had the CIA doing the kind of stuff we're seeing them do currently in the U.S. and in Venezuela, for the last ~25 years, it was happening under leadership with fluctuating levels of competency reflective of the president. Maybe it's just because this guy looks so much like him, but I just keep thinking Trump seems to have placed Michael Scott in charge of directing the CIA.
It's definitely not that I think Trump is the first president/Ratcliffe is the first CIA director, willing to do some really unethical and harmful things to innocent people as part of a larger political strategy.
It's just that subtlety is not a strength of anyone working in this administration. You have the hubris and unchecked authority of the Trump administration working with the hubris and unchecked authority of the CIA, and there's nobody around to pump the brakes and suggest that maybe you tone it down a bit because you're being way too obvious.