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I don't know if it was deliberate American propaganda campaign. The US is always looking for an enemy even if they have to invent one. Its telling that none of

I don't know if it was deliberate American propaganda campaign. The US is always looking for an enemy even if they have to invent one. Its telling that none of the media even once asked themselves WHY someone would want to attack embassy staff in such a bizarre way. At least the US State Department kept its cool. Saving America from Americans is their mission.

dang 8y ago
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. We're looking for civil, substantive discussions and that leads to just the opposite. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- aylmao 8y ago
  I personally don't think this comment is flamebait or nationalistic, and I think it raises a good question that I think could bring substantive discussion-- why would Cuba want to attack American diplomats? This comment also begins with an opinion by OP, not an unfundamented statement. OP opens with: > I don't know if it was deliberate American propaganda campaign. Which is completely valid-- I don't know either, even though I can choose to believe it was simply a mistake.
  - njharman 8y ago
    It, obviously, would not be Cubans. It would be someone wanting US Cuban tensions to increase. Tons of actors want that.
  - dang 8y ago
    Flamebait in a comment is found in its worst statements, not its best ones.
- RodericDay 8y ago
  lmao the absolute state of the mod team on this website any china, russia story? dozens of posts talking about the sinister motives of The Other a factual statement about american foreign policy? "flamebait"
GVIrish 8y ago
> Its telling that none of the media even once asked themselves WHY someone would want to attack embassy staff in such a bizarre way. Simple answer: intelligence officers work out of embassies. We do it, our adversaries do it, our allies do it. An adversarial intelligence service might do something to disrupt another countries intelligence operations if they thought they could get away with it. A second possible explanation is that it wasn't actually an attack. In the 40's ago the KGB used listening devices where they hid a passive reflector in a building that would later get painted with high power microwaves which would get reflected back and interpreted. Not hard to imagine that this technique was iterated on and potentially still in use, with the side effect of physiological damage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

dang 8y ago

Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. We're looking for civil, substantive discussions and that leads to just the opposite. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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aylmao 8y ago
I personally don't think this comment is flamebait or nationalistic, and I think it raises a good question that I think could bring substantive discussion-- why would Cuba want to attack American diplomats? This comment also begins with an opinion by OP, not an unfundamented statement. OP opens with: > I don't know if it was deliberate American propaganda campaign. Which is completely valid-- I don't know either, even though I can choose to believe it was simply a mistake.
- njharman 8y ago
  It, obviously, would not be Cubans. It would be someone wanting US Cuban tensions to increase. Tons of actors want that.
- dang 8y ago
  Flamebait in a comment is found in its worst statements, not its best ones.
RodericDay 8y ago
lmao the absolute state of the mod team on this website any china, russia story? dozens of posts talking about the sinister motives of The Other a factual statement about american foreign policy? "flamebait"

GVIrish 8y ago

> Its telling that none of the media even once asked themselves WHY someone would want to attack embassy staff in such a bizarre way. Simple answer: intelligence officers work out of embassies. We do it, our adversaries do it, our allies do it. An adversarial intelligence service might do something to disrupt another countries intelligence operations if they thought they could get away with it. A second possible explanation is that it wasn't actually an attack. In the 40's ago the KGB used listening devices where they hid a passive reflector in a building that would later get painted with high power microwaves which would get reflected back and interpreted. Not hard to imagine that this technique was iterated on and potentially still in use, with the side effect of physiological damage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)