• @[email protected]
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    9 days ago

    I’ve always maintained that we let 9/11 happen to drum up public support to spin up the war machine and further the conservative plot to take over the country. I don’t think we orchestrated it, but I do think we knew and looked the other way.

    We did it with Pearl Harbor, so it’s 100% within the realm of possibility that we did it with 9/11.

      • ileftreddit
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        28 days ago

        There were, iirc a number of serious trade restrictions and other measures enacted against Japan at the time that virtually guaranteed their declaring war on us. I don’t think Pearl Harbor itself was anticipated though

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days ago

          It’s depressing the degree with which we were taught that Japan basically just bombed the US for no reason other than they were a bloodthirsty race who yearned to go out killing for its own sake. And then we berate them for not teaching history properly.