For those interested, this is the premise of Yuval Noah's article "the theatre of terrorism" - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/31/terrorism-spectacle

For those interested, this is the premise of Yuval Noah's article "the theatre of terrorism" - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/31/terrorism-spectacle-how-states-respond-yuval-noah-harari-sapiens https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/31/terrorism-spec... As the URL suggests, the author wrote the book sapiens. If anyone is interested in seeing something similar playing out in real time these days, take a look at Sri Lanka.