• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    They attacked Chinas covid vaccine, which while less effective than the American/European version, they made available to lower income countries much sooner. By maligning the vaccine, the Pentagon could attack China in the developing world.

    This worked, but also made the Philippines way antivax in general, directly leading to death.

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      5 months ago

      The cia is just a blowback machine. I’ve lost count of how many times they have made everything worse.

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        5 months ago

        As far as the CIA is concerned it achieved its objective and thus was a success. They don’t give a flying fuck about the lives of a few thousand innocent brown people.