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In order to learn from history and prevent blowback-like situations we need to have an as good as possible informed civil population. | In order to learn from history and prevent blowback-like situations we need to have an as good as possible informed civil population. | ||
: Chalmers Johnson, CIA consultant, about "blowback": ''The unintended consequences of foreign CIA operations that were deliberately kept secret... so people come up with questions like, "Why do they hate us?"'' | : Chalmers Johnson, CIA consultant, [https://youtu.be/8pwD4J35-i8?t=350 about "blowback"]: ''The unintended consequences of foreign CIA operations that were deliberately kept secret... so people come up with questions like, "Why do they hate us?"'' | ||
: Robert Gates, American intelligence analyst and United States secretary of defense complained that the Europeans were not spending enough for NATO's budget. At the same time he criticized NATO's expansion plans: "[https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching.]" | : Robert Gates, American intelligence analyst and United States secretary of defense complained that the Europeans were not spending enough for NATO's budget. At the same time he criticized NATO's expansion plans: "[https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching.]" | ||