>potential for its messaging to more easily hit a critical mass.
Like that time we funded a minor regional insurgency that went on to a) kick out the Russians b) run their own country c) attack us d) kick us out e) run their own country.
The feds losing control of their assets has been a meme ever since Kennedy ate a bullet.
>>The feds losing control of their assets has been a meme ever since Kennedy ate a bullet.
Hey, that's not fair. The problem of governments running authoritarian operations that have wider reaching consequences as they spiral out of State control is MUCH older than that...
>wider reaching consequences as they spiral out of State control is MUCH older than that.
Alea iacta est
You saying Caesar was a spook?
It was just an example of the state losing control of an instrument they had built up to increase their own power.