Took me awhile for all the pieces to fit, the greatest psyop the government ever pulled was making us think they're incompetent... appear weak when you are strong.

If a movie producer can write a script for a CIA movie with twist, turns and an unpredictable outcome, so can the intelligence community those movies are based upon (and often directly informed by as disclosure ops) with their nearly unlimited resources.

It's a bit liberating in a way to know that most political debates are settled before they've begun in the public sphere, and that outrage and in-fighting is laregely manufactured in an "art of the deal" sort of way. Politicians are front-men and actors just following a script, and that there is no one-government or two parties, just a battlefield which is why these clandestine maneuvers are needed in the first place.

Enjoy the popcorn.