You know how it is sometimes said that abnormal events or observations happen in series, because with a first event publicized widely, suddenly everyone becomes conscious of it, and either truthfully or mischievously they report/claim similar events within a short time of the publicized one. Examples are the UFO sightings craze of the 50s, 60s and the 70s.
The other day, however, I thought of this concept when I thought how bizarre that very recently, so many unusual things happen in multiple series. You see, a little while ago, we had a whole ‘secret’ document issue with Trump, but it soon became one for Biden, and a few other high current or ex US officials. Suddenly there were secret documents everywhere. Then we suddenly had a Chinese spy balloon which mushroomed into supposedly dozens of them seen, or claimed to have been seen, again all over the world. And now?
Well, well, well. As you know, recently, the US discovered that someone was posting military secrets on video game forums, and then arrested him. Since then, we have had a game of how and is it real or fake. Just as we thought this story had enough material to hold us for intrigues for some time, we find out that the UK is upping the stakes and providing news for the discovery of documents in a pub, about the workings of a military nuclear-powered submarine!
The UK military, however, was very quick in outlining that “these are generic training documents that carry no classified information. However, we take all security matters extremely seriously and will investigate the circumstances of their discovery.” So maybe the UK did not up the stakes and its secret information breach was not up to par with that of the US, but then again, that has been the country’s chagrin from the middle of the 20th century: always coming behind its «offspring», in spite of its persistence to be mischievous.
Paris, May 4, 2023
Zeejay