>>31357900/meat/ espionage strategy is parasitism
They put fundies and other devout cultist in key positions that would allow their activities to go unnoticed.
Think Stalin and the Secretary General
If a cultist gets to become a courtier, they will appoint more followers into high places.
When there's a raid? The navy will be assigned elsewhere
Promote investment in a town that is prime for attacks
Or plant cultists as ship captains to traffic people to /meat/ mainland
And most important of all, assign people in the military and navy. So they can do all they can to avoid a war. Any proposal to declare a war will be lauded at.
The thing is that people couldnt even tell if theyre cultist at first. /meat/ culture has always been about integrity and honor. Varangians hired by infidels would still risk their lives to save their different faith allies. Even if there are cultists in your court, they won't betray you and start a civil war. All they would do is prioritizing /meat/ in any activities.
If it's trade, a cultist diplomat would try to find a way to get a /meat/ merchant or their allies into this. If your trade deal suspiciously has many Kronie and Meathead shares that's a sign.
Traffickers will not dare get VIPs on board the trap ships/caravans. Mostly the caravans that have gone missing carried prisoners both civil and political.
The cultist general drilling your army is zealous and disciplined because he just vented his extreme 'kill the gods' mentality into hating your own enemy (and their chuuba). Aka if you train your division of heathens hard enough they'll just kill more heathens.
And the towns that are constantly raided? They were originally small developing fishing towns until a cultist baron and other cultist merchants invested into it. Literally grooming a town into becoming a cattle to be slaughtered. Even post-raid they would use their own money to repair and rejuvenate it.
Theyre doing diplomatic ryona. Like how you trust a ryona partner to push a pin into your genitals, you can trust them and they wont stab you in the back. But what they will do is very painful.