Who invented #fake #news as hybrid #warfare in modern times?
The #truth rarely make sense if you leave out critical details or fabricate them. What's more, your enemy can copy your strategy at any time and is probably even better at it. Do you trust your government?
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Remember the Maine! Was it really torpedoed in Havana Harbor or was a coal explosion used as a pretext for a war with Spain?
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second-class battleship of the United States Navy
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Governments from parties who get funded by billionaires and corporations don't even deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •The Hearst newspapers accused the Spanish of attaching a mine to the Maine, as I recall. Boiler explosions were common. They also invented a young Cuban girl who they accused the Spanish of tormenting. She never existed. The Spanish-American war was nothing but imperialism.
The Philippines is now an independent country, but the US still rules Puerto Rico and Guam, and these "territories" have no representation in Congress.
Two famous writers were on opposite sides when it came to US imperialism: Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Twain was against it, and Kipling was for it. In fact the expression "white man's burden" was invented by Kipling in an essay about the Philippines.
BTW, the US, after a struggle in the US Congress, gave the Philippines its independence just in time for it to be conquered by the Japanese in what Japan calls the 太平洋戦争 (Pacific War) and the US and the British call WWII.
The US still had navy bases there, and the defeat of the US Navy by Japan is widely considered the worst military def
... Show more...The Hearst newspapers accused the Spanish of attaching a mine to the Maine, as I recall. Boiler explosions were common. They also invented a young Cuban girl who they accused the Spanish of tormenting. She never existed. The Spanish-American war was nothing but imperialism.
The Philippines is now an independent country, but the US still rules Puerto Rico and Guam, and these "territories" have no representation in Congress.
Two famous writers were on opposite sides when it came to US imperialism: Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Twain was against it, and Kipling was for it. In fact the expression "white man's burden" was invented by Kipling in an essay about the Philippines.
BTW, the US, after a struggle in the US Congress, gave the Philippines its independence just in time for it to be conquered by the Japanese in what Japan calls the 太平洋戦争 (Pacific War) and the US and the British call WWII.
The US still had navy bases there, and the defeat of the US Navy by Japan is widely considered the worst military defeat in US history. That's when Douglas MacArthur famously said, "I shall return." He did return, Japan was defeated, and the US once again had Navy bases in the independent Philippines.
In my day, the US still had a massive base at Subic Bay. That now seems to be one of many US Navy bases that no longer exist. The US Navy is now much smaller than in the 1970s, and I count that as a good thing, though I do feel some nostalgia for a few of those closed bases. I've never been near the Philippines, but I know US citizens who were born there.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •the US still rules Puerto Rico and Guam, and these “territories” have no representation in Congress
Not to mention Washington DC!