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Foreign Affairs

DetlefK

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2. What is illogical about this? It's an age-old tactic.

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 07:32 AM

Dec 2022

The crusades were launched as a political tool the cement the Catholic Church's authority in Europe.

The Falkland-War in the 1980s was fought between Britain and Argentina over a bunch of worthless rocks in the Atlantic Ocean, in order to distract from Prime-Minister Margaret Thatcher's catastrophic economic reforms.

The Iraq-War in 2003 was supposed to be a give-away to US oil-companies.

Brexit was supposed to be a disctraction from corruption in the UK government.

And now the Ukraine-war is an excuse to keep Putin's corrupt and authoritarian regime in place forever, because otherwise the West will have won.

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Putin needs the Ukraine-war to keep going indefinitely to distract Russians from domestic problems. [View all] DetlefK Dec 2022 OP

Illogical....... Lovie777 Dec 2022 #1

What is illogical about this? It's an age-old tactic. DetlefK Dec 2022 #2

This is one thing missing from their lives: Backseat Driver Dec 2022 #3

The flip is that the war will exacerbate domestic problems and be identified as the cause Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2022 #4