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that’s not what a false flag is unless you’re saying the US secretly gassed the Kurds and blamed it on Iraq



Well they didn’t don Iraqi uniforms and take photos smiling by vx agent drums or anything I guess. But they alleged as much and got the desired response as if they did. By definition of a false flag operation, you wouldn’t expect to hear of many historical cases. But one wonders cases such as the CIA training Taliban to fight the soviet union. Was this considered a false flag? Training and arming troops and sending them to fight without your flag on their sleeve? Does it matter if they went through boot camp on parris island or in a valley in Afghanistan for this definition? Do we care more about semantical correctness here or the outcomes?


yes i think the taliban in the 90s could be a false flag, although it wasn’t used in a way to justify US intervention




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