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Russia & USA: The 100-Year Cold War

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Ideological Component of Leak

The FBI classify the motivations for why someone would betray secrets or become a spy and agent into an acronym, MICE. The person that you just mentioned, I believe the surname is Tasharia, it seems driven by ego. So the E and MICE, he was trying to show off to his friends in the chat rooms, as he said. It's all stuff that Putin is pumping into the airwaves in the US on the hard right, and it seems to be gaining some traction. A strange mirror image of left-wing intellectuals of the mid-20th century. Look where we are. You can't believe it, that it's the left on US politics that is supporting

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