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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social</link><title>@johnsipher.bsky.social - John Sipher</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu6gfomihk2a</link><description>Do it!   :-)&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 22:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6gfomihk2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu6gd433322a</link><description>https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/steady-state-files-criminal-referral?r=17yf0&amp;utm_medium=ios</description><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 22:35 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6gd433322a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu5hdd63bk2o</link><description>Such people can only be defeated, not reasoned with. This is why CIA Director Ratcliffe’s trip to Moscow to reason with the very people with blood on their hands is a fool’s errand.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 13:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5hdd63bk2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu5gx5zul22o</link><description>“A war does not end when the people who fought it die, but when the generations born afterward refuse to inherit the enemies of their parents…As long as hatred is passed down through families as an inheritance, the war is not over; it has only changed form.”&#xA;&#xA;https://eualive.net/war-criminal-ratko-mladic-is-dead-the-wars-of-the-1990s-have-yet-to-truly-end/</description><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 13:14 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5gx5zul22o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu5go63wuk2e</link><description>“When politicians turn graves into arguments, the dead cease to be remembered as people and become instruments through which the living carry on their old conflicts.”&#xA;&#xA;https://eualive.net/war-criminal-ratko-mladic-is-dead-the-wars-of-the-1990s-have-yet-to-truly-end/</description><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 13:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5go63wuk2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu5d7vgsac2t</link><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 12:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5d7vgsac2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu5cims2pc2o</link><description>All we know about Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow is that the Administration is likely lying about it &#xA;&#xA;https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-ratcliffe-visit-to-moscow-a-case?r=17yf0&amp;utm_medium=ios</description><pubDate>28 Aug 2026 11:54 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5cims2pc2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu3nkhl5p223</link><description>“America’s foreign policy has for decades been calibrated to a Russia that does not exist…Lenin called the tsarist realm a “prison of nations” in 1914, and so Russia remains a century later.”&#xA;&#xA;https://thehill.com/opinion/international/6051039-senate-passes-graham-sanctions/</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 20:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3nkhl5p223</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu3nhqmkq22t</link><description>“We know that the Kremlin doesn’t answer to the people it governs, but the bill’s logic naively assumes it cares for them. Moscow has spent five centuries proving otherwise.”&#xA;&#xA;https://thehill.com/opinion/international/6051039-senate-passes-graham-sanctions/</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 20:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3nhqmkq22t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu3msym5j22n</link><description>Lake Small Dick&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 19:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3msym5j22n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu3mqx3xf22n</link><description>He needs to deflect from Iran, the economy, the Epstein saga...&#xA;&#xA;https://apnews.com/article/lake-ontario-canada-america-trump-trade-war-3ac58dca0ca83c15605d4dbff146b28a?utm_source=bluesky&amp;utm_medium=share&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Trump</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 19:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3mqx3xf22n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu2whbgyls25</link><description>This is what happens when you elect an organized crime group.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 13:13 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2whbgyls25</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu2wd3a7y225</link><description>Good!&#xA;&#xA;https://www.rferl.org/a/butcher-of-bosnia-ratko-mladic-dies-aged-84/33841851.html</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 13:11 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2wd3a7y225</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu2upcvkzc2n</link><description>Who knows?&#xA;&#xA;https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/ratcliffe-in-moscow?r=17yf0&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 12:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2upcvkzc2n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu2rnfxads2v</link><description>The risks of catastrophe are rising. Luckily we have the most inept and benighted people in charge. &#xA;&#xA;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/opinion/ai-risks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 11:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2rnfxads2v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/johnsipher.bsky.social/post/3mu2qmibbqc2v</link><description>Thank goodness for the Board of Peace.</description><pubDate>27 Aug 2026 11:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:s3bem7mapxyocynldw6sfof4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2qmibbqc2v</guid></item></channel></rss>