**BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!**

Last month, US Senator Elissa Slotkin came back from a trip to Poland and Hungary with a message:

"I think the lessons of how both countries in their different ways kind of came out of authoritarian government was really important. There's a playbook for these authoritarians, but there's also a playbook to get out of it."

Slotkin isn't just any senator. She's a former CIA analyst, recruited after 9/11, who served three tours in Iraq, then worked on the National Security Council under Bush and Obama and became a senior Pentagon official under Obama before entering Congress in 2019 and the Senate in 2025.

Earlier this year at the Munich Security Conference, she shared a panel with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, the same Sikorski who is now defending Tusk's police takeover of the Constitutional Court to the world as "restoring the rule of law."

A former CIA officer tours Poland, then talks openly about a "playbook" for getting rid of governments she calls authoritarian. Weeks later, Tusk's government sends riot police to seize Poland's highest court, and her panel partner from Munich is the one selling it abroad.

So what exactly is in that playbook? And who is running it: Brussels or Langley? 

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