Dangerous times for America as it now faces an Intelligence Community high on hubris over its defeat of Trump. What will be their pound of flesh?

Topping the IC’s post-Trump agenda would likely be further unleashing of surveillance powers.

Followed by furthering the schedule on regime change presumably in Syria firstly.

Presumably getting the wave-through from Biden and co. - unless some pushback from new CIA chief William Burns.

But first things first, the IC’s consolidation of power via the extension of the security/surveillance state.

Australia will need a spine to avoid empowering the re-energised US IC through domestic upscaling of security and surveillance, and provision of military support to future US regime change wars.