The Real Purpose of the New CIA Spy Video

Well let’s take a look at the new CIA recruiting commercial aimed at Russians in the military and intelligence services, I think it’s actually quite clever and well-designed – though I have no way of knowing if it’ll be successful. Everything in this video was done intentionally. Immediately you’ll notice the blue tint – that’s … Read more

Operational Risk Management (or lack of it) in Ukraine

The Ukraine war is the single most baffling thing I’ve ever seen in my life, even more baffling than the pandemic. “We have to help Ukraine against Russia” is a reasonable and defensible statement, but virtually every pro-Ukraine person I have encountered is irrational. I could go on at length about how every NATO talking point is absurd, but I’ve already done that many times before. Today I’m going to talk focus specifically on operational risk management.

Potpourri

Hi there, I know you missed me a lot (ok, maybe you didn’t). I’ve been recently active on Quora (please, follow here), but I cannot let you miss on my precious content. So here is a potpourri of some longer posts and replies I made there recently and consider worth sharing. Question (original spelling and … Read more