I think it’s reasonable to assume that countries have ‘assets’ who they stay in touch with, but don’t engage for riskier activities until down the track, it’s probably just that during certain periods (counterrevolution, coup, terror) the foreign actor would seek to push them further along the informant/asset/agent pipeline at a faster rate that makes it look like they were ‘sleeping’ previously.
The material conditions may also lend themselves to pushing those assets through faster if they’re willing to take on riskier activities for higher reward that they wouldn’t normally (“We’ll give you citizenship”/“We’ll ensure your safety”/“We’ll help you profit from the conflict”)
I think it’s reasonable to assume that countries have ‘assets’ who they stay in touch with, but don’t engage for riskier activities until down the track, it’s probably just that during certain periods (counterrevolution, coup, terror) the foreign actor would seek to push them further along the informant/asset/agent pipeline at a faster rate that makes it look like they were ‘sleeping’ previously.
The material conditions may also lend themselves to pushing those assets through faster if they’re willing to take on riskier activities for higher reward that they wouldn’t normally (“We’ll give you citizenship”/“We’ll ensure your safety”/“We’ll help you profit from the conflict”)
just consider this an open offer mr xi: if you offer me chinese citizenship ill do whatever you want
You don’t even need to offer me citizenship, Xi, I’ll just do whatever you want no strings attached
Co-signed: PointAndClique