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The Russians work fast

The Russians work fast

They've already found a suspect in the assassination of a prominent "military blogger." Through diligent police work, I'm sure.

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Apr 03, 2023
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Soviet-era joke: the CIA and the KGB have a competition to see who can more quickly find a grizzly bear somewhere in the woods. The CIA directs its sophisticated satellites over the forest and flies over it with helicopters and U2 spy planes, and send in dozens of agents on the ground, but after 12 hours they haven’t found a single rabbit.

The KGB sends agents into the woods and emerges five minutes later with a bunny rabbit, covered in bruises and cuts and with a look of sheer terror in its eyes, which they present to the judges. The rabbit then hesitantly says, “I…am…grizzly bear.”

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