• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    4 hours ago

    You mean that a government with one of the most well funded intelligence services in the world, knew that an attack was coming from a region they completely control, from a manufactured rebel group they partly fund. And they let this attack happen, and their citizens die and used it as a casus belli to raze, and ethnically cleanse said region because they want to completely colonize and claim it as their own?

    That’s definitely a first in the history of humanity and I’m utterly shocked, really!

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      Also they let the attack continue for 6 hours before showing up with forces despite being a 1 hour drive from their capital city and probably even closer to military bases. With a population that all serves in the military in their youth and many that proudly walk around armed, how did it take so long to organize a counter?

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    9 hours ago

    Pearl Harbor, 9/11… for anyone outside of America/the West these people work in very predictable ways. It works too, so why not?

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    I will go one step further. Most wars are started with a false flag operation.

    This is my conspiracy theory with no evidence- 9/11, this thing, Pearl Harbor were all inside jobs. It is not that far fetched to think that governments would kill their own people to justify a war because they kill their soldiers anyways.

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    16 hours ago

    I’ve taken this for granted since the beginning… It seems incredibly suspect that such a powerful intelligence apparatus could not have known about such a wide spread attack.

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      15 hours ago

      It seems incredibly suspect that such a powerful intelligence apparatus could not have known about such a wide spread attack.

      Egypt warned them months ahead.

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        US intelligence confirmed within a week that Egypt had warned them repeatedly, and again a few days before the attack. So even if they missed it themselves(which is highly unlikely), they at a very minimum ignored the warnings.

        And when the PM quickly called that “fake news”, it should have been a pretty strong indication for most people.