[bbbbb5]

This is typical busy work given to agents to make them feel important, to test their loyalty and ability to accomplish tasks provided. For the most part, it's not actually supposed to result in useful intelligence.

Also there's a huge difference between tracking military equipment movements and power infrastructure. Power infrastructure doesn't move and can't really be hidden.

[mannerheim]

Apparently valuable enough to do a prisoner exchange for.

I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

[LarryMullins]

> I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

Uh, why? I can understand doubting the electronics in their satellites, but the mirrors? Why do you think Russia can't polish mirrors?

[bbbbb5]

>Apparently valuable enough to do a prisoner exchange for.

You don't do prisoner exchanges because of the valuable contributions of that agent, you do prisoner exchanges to ensure future contributions by other agents.

>I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

They're just fine. What kind of quality do you think they need to hit a power plant with a missile? Most of their missiles aren't that precise anyway.

There's only an extremely limited set of circumstances where drone footage of power infrastructure could be useful.

[ithkuil]

Nepotism can provide an alternative explanation for prisoner exchange even if the actual task was literally busywork

[denton-scratch]

> I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

Doesn't Leica have a reputation for world-beating optics?