The CIA needs to change, but not the way they think.

Earlier this week WikiLeaks released CIA documents which show that the CIA hacks into smart phones and television sets and makes it appear as if Russians have done it. Writing under the pen name of Alex Finley, a former CIA operative laments changes in the agency's priorities from old fashioned human intelligence to open patrolling with army units to counter terrorism. "Attending soirees and rubbing elbows with international VIPs wasn't how you tracked down terrorists, who hid in hillsides and remote compounds in hostile territories. Chalk marks on a street lamp to signal a meeting; dead drops in a park, filled or emptied after hours traipsing through a bustling city to determine whether you were under surveillance - these techniques now seem obsolete," he writes. "Gone were the days it seemed, of risky brush passes in a heart-pounding, adrenaline-filled four second period when an officer was 'black' - meaning free, just for a moment, from hostile surveillance and able to pass a message to an asset." George Smiley stuff. But the Russian are still practicing these methods. But why is Russia still an enemy, even after the breakup of the Soviet Union? It is because the West continued to treat Russia as a continuation of USSR instead of welcoming it as a friend, wrote Jonathan Marcus. Boris Yeltsin was treated as drunken buffoon by the Clinton Administration, wrote Michael Crowley. The US advised 'shock therapy' and privatization which resulted in a collapse in the economy and the ruble. Clinton expanded NATO into Eastern Europe, which were part of the Comecon alliance earlier. This humiliation resulted in the rise of Vladmir Putin, who has set about making Russia strong again so that it will be taken seriously by the West. Russian tanks are to be armed with 'pterodactyl drones' which can circle 100 meters above the ground for an indefinite period. Russia has developed robots that can pinpoint and kill humans from a distance of 4 miles. It has unveiled a super-nuke missile, named Saturn 2, 2000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. The GRU hacked into an app used by the Ukrainian army to fire its howitzer guns. They were able to pinpoint the location of the howitzers so that 80% have been neutralized. Lisa Dickey has been visiting Russia for 30 years and has never seen the people so proud of their nation as under Putin, who enjoys an 82% popularity rating. The biggest danger to the world today is China and not Russia. If a war breaks out in Asia the entire global economy will suffer. Putin will pass one day, but Russia will be there. Does the US intend to have a permanent enemy on the borders of Europe forever? Make friends with Russia, concentrate on China. That is the road to peace.