How Intelligence Agencies Would Operate in an Authoritarian America | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS
The Team House
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
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00:01 — Start
03:48 — Thought experiment: U.S. turns authoritarian
05:29 — Global authoritarianism by the numbers
12:19 — Autocracies’ intel edge (disinfo/social media)
15:23 — Russia 2016 playbook & U.S. CI gaps
28:38 — Allies spying on America as norms erode
42:54 — What Canada/Mexico would do next
53:51 — Freedom House checklist: signs of backsliding
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to a new episode of Eyes on Geopolitics. |
| 0:14.8 | A little bit different today. |
| 0:17.1 | We have Mick Mulroy, Mark Polymeropolis, Jason Lyons, and myself. |
| 0:21.4 | We are completely in 100% CIA funded. |
| 0:25.5 | Go to CIA.gov if you want to join. |
| 0:29.4 | I wish. |
| 0:30.1 | Send me a check. |
| 0:33.1 | So today's show is a little bit different. |
| 0:35.8 | We usually talk about current events, what's going on in the world and stuff like |
| 0:39.4 | that. |
| 0:39.7 | Obviously, a lot is still going on. |
| 0:43.2 | Today I wanted to do something different where it's more, I guess, of a thought exercise. |
| 0:47.8 | I mean, more or less, I'm sure there are people thinking of it right now due to, like, |
| 0:52.3 | the fact that authoritarianism is rising |
| 0:55.8 | across the world. The basic question of this show is going to be what happens if America, |
| 1:02.8 | American democracy is basically a shell of itself. There's an authoritarian regime in power. |
| 1:07.8 | What would allied and enemy intelligence agencies be doing in America in terms of operations |
| 1:13.9 | that you see them working up, you know, we see China and Russia doing stuff now, obviously. |
| 1:20.9 | But I want you to picture 5, 10, 15 years from now. |
| 1:25.3 | There's an authoritarian regime and like places like Canada |
| 1:28.5 | or the other five eyes, |
| 1:30.7 | NATO intelligence agencies, |
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