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It'd be quite difficult to operate if the government departments of the US didn't collaborate! The US, Russia, China, etc, are all imperial powers trying to maximise access to resources to help keep their oligarch class in check, which helps keep the middle classes in blissful ignorance, which helps keep the underclasses from rising up. It's a dynamic as old as the hills, and territory which comes with owning most of the world's key infrastructure, various g-men strategically scattered across the world and
collecting a tithe on big chunks of the world's purchases. There was a time when it would've been thought as unfeasible to ever work with Japan, where Germany was the height of all evil, when the French were mortal enemies, etc. Times change, and it's useful to keep an open mind. I personally have always been fascinated by the sheer emptiness of that part of the world, and have always wanted to motorcycle to Magadan. I loved watching Dersu Usala (Kurosawa's Soviet movie), and think that part of the world is like a final frontier, especially if the world's climate keeps on changing. |