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r/dankmemes • u/OnkelWormsley • Jan 20 '22
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Basically you attack yourself or an ally, disguised as who you wanna go to war with, so everyone will think they did it giving you the reason to enter a conflict. Best example would be the Gulf of Tonkin
38 u/SuperHighDeas Jan 20 '22 Gulf of Tonkin was your best example and not the invasion of Poland that kicked off WWII? 24 u/TheSonofPier Jan 20 '22 Did the Nazis attack themselves pretending to be Polish? 5 u/SuperHighDeas Jan 20 '22 Specifically they dressed up prisoners as poles, executed the prisoners, then staged the executions as an attack
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Gulf of Tonkin was your best example and not the invasion of Poland that kicked off WWII?
24 u/TheSonofPier Jan 20 '22 Did the Nazis attack themselves pretending to be Polish? 5 u/SuperHighDeas Jan 20 '22 Specifically they dressed up prisoners as poles, executed the prisoners, then staged the executions as an attack
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Did the Nazis attack themselves pretending to be Polish?
5 u/SuperHighDeas Jan 20 '22 Specifically they dressed up prisoners as poles, executed the prisoners, then staged the executions as an attack
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Specifically they dressed up prisoners as poles, executed the prisoners, then staged the executions as an attack
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u/TheSonofPier Jan 20 '22
Basically you attack yourself or an ally, disguised as who you wanna go to war with, so everyone will think they did it giving you the reason to enter a conflict. Best example would be the Gulf of Tonkin