• @Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
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    822 months ago

    Rule 1. When you’re having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.

    • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      232 months ago

      Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.