Scary echoes of the same simple playbook by UK/US Imperialists. For centuries creating and exploiting fake pretexts by falsely smearing easy scapegoats/demons, whether national, international, or sexual.
E.G. The 1871 newly unified industrious Germany was soon peacefully planning and building a 4900km/3000mi RAILYWAY to transport the valuable new power-source 'OIL' overland in just 50hrs from peaceful Iraq.
Which would have given Germany a huge economic and industrial advantage over coal & steam-powered Britain still reliant on long sea voyages for Gulf oil.
So, the UK fake media-primed fuse soon sparked in Sarajevo 1914 for WW1, was their useful false-demon Deutschland! Later Russia and Soviets, and Muslims, and now it's China!
Fake media wars of the words always precede Wars of the World.
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