re: #10 Testy Toad T

This is a weird one, because usually it’s providing aide and comfort to a particular enemy.

Pernicious G and co. seem to care more about fucking over the US than they do about helping anybody. It’s an unusually negatively-focused strain of espionage. Russia, for example, really doesn’t stand to gain for it to be easier to coordinate human trafficking in the Bahamas. Maybe at the slightest wispy fringes they benefit from a weakened US, but that’s a tough case to make IMHO.

It’s hard to paint this as even a naive and wrong-headed sort of True Believer idealism. It’s just nutso libertarian nonsense with a metaphorical gun backing it up.

They’ve received stolen goods—secret US govt documents deliberately passed to them by Snowjob, which they knew he had, and for which a case might also be made for conspiracy, which they have no right to have. IMHO, that puts them in the same category as he is.