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		BLKNSLVR on March 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Narco Submarine Found in Spain I very much admire the irony of the ultimate conclusion of the long I-know-you-know game: Pure observation; non-interventionalism. Inability to act for fear of losing the value of the method of information gathering that provided the requirement to make the decision to act or not. International espionage revealed as nihilism.

maxerickson on March 15, 2021 [–]

In WW2, the US would send spotter planes out into the Pacific where they knew Japanese boats were, wait for them to report that they had been spotted, and then attack.

So inaction isn't inevitable, it's a choice.

perl4ever on March 15, 2021 | [–]

aka "parallel construction"

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