• UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I mean yeah that’s kinda the point of sleeper cells.

      “So Steve, what do you do for a living?”

      “Oh I’m an agent of a foreign country waiting for a signal to strike.”

      “Nice, same.”

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          Hmm it’s an interesting question. I would say no for two reasons. The US has enough military power to do what they want overtly (see 2026), and I doubt the US could keep something like that quiet for long enough to matter. Surely something like that would have been leaked if anyone knew about it.

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          The most conventionally powerful military won’t have nearly as much need to plan for being on the smaller side of an asymmetric war.