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Grand rising/day/evening, comrades! I'm about to be busy, so in the before-hectic time I opened Lemmy to see the following posts immediately, and thought perchance they may serve your entertainment needs:

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-moldova-voting-elections-candidates-west-kremlin/

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/prozess-gegen-krah-assistenten-das-steht-in-den-afd-dossiers-des-mutmasslichen-china-spions-a-8e0ecae9-fcb2-4831-a512-15467095b6e6

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp9w5kyw7o

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/04/uk-academics-studying-topics-sensitive-to-china-face-harassment-survey-finds

May everyone have the loveliest of days/evenings, or at least not all-around horrible! With love from a westoid. ๐Ÿซถ

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[โ€“] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm 99% sure it is a CIA recruiting scheme.

[โ€“] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it was false, at least. I'm pretty wiped out after my day and not making the connection. Unless you mean the CIA set up the websites that appear to be Chinese?

[โ€“] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The claim it has a Chinese origin is just asserted with next to no evidence.

They say that they tricked a major ring leader into a video call and he ended up being Japanese. If a major player in the community is a Japanese man why are they insisting it started in China?

Running an online community costs money. The CIA is the most likely to have an interest in keeping a rollodex of psychopaths.

[โ€“] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, thanks for pointing out the obvious in my face. Like recruiting people with learning disabilities or mental health conditions to daesh, then arresting them (which makes me wonder how these cases aren't dismissed as entrapment).

[โ€“] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And imagine having not just a list of psychopaths but also evidence of them doing horrific things to use as black mail. Not that a psychopath that kills kittens isn't going to jump at the chance to hurt people for a CIA pay cheque.

[โ€“] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It speaks very clearly to the psycopathy of US policy and a cargo shipload of government apparatus people.