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Espionage: the acquisition of secret information about the activities, plans, and methods of a state, organization, or person
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Basically I've been learning Russian for a bit, I know very little but I've been to some eastern europe countries(ex USSR where most people know more russian than english) and I've been able to get around with basic vocabulary and gestures(public transportation, local street markets, everything). Also before starting to learn Russian i was dabbling a bit on Arabic got to the very basics then life happened and i stopped. Fast foward to current times I'm thinking about really putting in the effort to one of this languages, which one do you think will be more strategically relevant in the next 12-20 years? Do you think russian will loose relevance after the end of the war? Being that Standard Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world and that the countries that speak them have the perfect combination of natural resources, cultural challenges, religious conflicts and geographical relevance(control of quite a few choke points) do you think it will be a strategically relevant language in the future? More than Russian?
(For a bit of background I am already fluent in three languages including English)