Comment on Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays.

• wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Essentially the CIA and DoD are highly involved in the production, including script writing.

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  • Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But those two tidbits about Tom Clancy are fun.

    The NSA reviewed his books and asked him to present his methods because he concluded a bunch of classified information using unclassified sources.

    Feel free to tl:dw me for the link, it’s only fair, but it’s a very interesting listen

    youtu.be/VS54M5Mqa9M

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that speech is referenced by Secker. I’ll save it for later, but I’d still appreciate the TL;DW.

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