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I think it’s so true - I remember when I first read that and suddenly huge amounts of geopolitics and political decision-making suddenly made sense.

Unfortunately, I feel that a lot of political leaders, bureaucrats, intelligence analysts, etc. never reach that stage of realising that much of our intelligence is mistaken, wrong, incomplete, misleading etc. - so they’re always operating in that ‘can’t learn from anybody who isn’t in the club, just pretend to listen while immediately dismissing anything they have to say, no matter their expertise’ stage… And it affects democracy too - from their perspective, why listen to the will of the people, because they don’t know what we know.

And let this be a warning whenever you read something from an unnamed ‘intelligence source’ or ‘Government source’ in the press…




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