right… this kind of thinking feels solid, but its not.
think of it like this
(what you don’t know) > (what you do know)
and
(number of secrets you are clueless about) > (number of secrets you have heard about)
there are some people who will literally say to you that what you are saying must not be true, because if it was true, he would have heard about it on TV news
You have a point, but this is Venezuela, not the CIA (yes, I realise there is some irony there, but I also think it makes my point as there are bound to be CIA assets in place that could have tipped someone off).
I can’t understand how the air defence didn’t work at least partially unless it was ordered to stand down to allow for an agreed extraction.
As far as I can tell there were zero casualties, which is very suspicious.
And if there were insiders co-ordinating the stand-down, how come it never leaked?
Sounds implausable given the number of people who would have to have been involved.
not sure where this idea that people can’t keep secrets comes from, but it seems pervasive among normies.
a normie assumes that because leaks happen, then everything must leak
mistaking his own ignorance of even the mere existence of a secret…
for a sense of being “all knowing”
because i heard 10 rumors, the 90 rumors that i didn’t hear, must not actually exist… because if they did exist, I would’ve heard about them…
The idea comes from people actually not keeping secrets. Weve experienced it plenty.
right… this kind of thinking feels solid, but its not.
think of it like this
(what you don’t know) > (what you do know)
and
(number of secrets you are clueless about) > (number of secrets you have heard about)
there are some people who will literally say to you that what you are saying must not be true, because if it was true, he would have heard about it on TV news
I know that secrets can be kept, but in order to do so you have to have high levels of trust/loyalty, or the penalty for blabbing is very high.
Just because I don't think those scenarios are likely in Venezuala doesn't mean I think it applies everywhere.
so you’re saying… the extraction, as told, sounds like… an implausible conspiracy theory?
Implausable? No. Unlikely (as outlined), imho, yes.
Reality is probably somewhere between the two. Turning off all the power and not having the military respond is a neat trick from the outside.
It was probably someone high up in the military who was on side.
You verbatim said “implausible”, but either way my comment was phrased toward getting someone to question the official narrative, not directly at you.
You’ve heard of 9-11 right? Compartmentation.
Maybe they had a stand-down order due to “military exercises”. Seems odd that not one single AA position lit up.
You have a point, but this is Venezuela, not the CIA (yes, I realise there is some irony there, but I also think it makes my point as there are bound to be CIA assets in place that could have tipped someone off).
Ratcliff sat beside Trump throughout the whole exercise, so short of the rogue elements, is the CIA management at least clean?