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kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very diffic
by AdamN 17d ago
kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data and even then there were so many moving parts that you needed an expert in just that area who had alot of data like who was having drinks with whom to predict who might be on the out and who might be ascendant.
- vlyan 17d ago>In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data not anymore, apparently. even random ~~grifters~~ geopolitics experts on youtube now have people on the inside.
- NooneAtAll3 17d agowe mostly live in misinformation age don't get fooled that only one side does that
- ahazred8ta 16d agoThere was one analyst reading Pravda who noticed a lot of people were suddenly being promoted into positions held by members of a certain large clique, with no notice about what was happening to the former appointees. After one of the nuclear treaties was signed, there was a guy whose photo was published in Pravda, shaking hands with Gorbachev; a different fresh photo of him shaking hands with Gorbachev every day for an entire month. He turned out to be the head of the ministry of strategic deception.