🤔RED OCTOBER DEBRIEFING: THEY'RE ARRESTING THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE PLAN My read, up front: the purge is no longer limited to criminals and outsiders. It's reaching the people who designed the system, and it's happening in Moscow, Beijing and everywhere in between. Last week, a Moscow court put one of Russia's most decorated economists under house arrest for taking a bribe. He isn't a dissident. He's an insider. For seventeen years he ran the academy that trains Russia's foreign-trade officials. He helped write the national development strategy and was personally commended for it by the president. He sat on the government's own expert council. He was already convicted once last year and walked away with a suspended sentence. Now they've come back for him a second time. The same thing is happening in China. Days before Beijing's biggest political meeting of the year, investigators opened a case on a former Chongqing mayor, the right-hand man of a leader who was purged more than a decade ago. He survived that purge and he's caught now. The people who once ran China's anti-corruption machine are being investigated themselves. The generals were removed first. And it isn't only the big powers. Brazil arrested a former police chief. Germany arrested a former spy chief. In America, a CIA officer admitted giving away a secret source. Here's what ties it together. Every system has people who know where the money went, who signed off, and who was protected. Those are the people being taken off the board right now: the planners, the enforcers, and the ones who survived the last cleanup. I've watched this pattern for two years. First they go after the networks. Then the money. Then the people who held the keys. Now they're reaching the people who drew the map. Timelines. Patterns. Their words, not mine. All I did was read the receipts. I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed.