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People will believe anything they want about casus belli, so long as it suits their politics. A week ago, someone here on HN was trying to convince me that the
by labster 3y ago
People will believe anything they want about casus belli, so long as it suits their politics. A week ago, someone here on HN was trying to convince me that the US State Department had a conspiracy to start the Ukraine war.
- hef19898 3y agoIf people really want to do something, they find reasons / excuses. And if people want to really believe something, thebdo so too. The latter quite often leads to BS conspiracy theories. The former to false flag operations, lies, propaganda and very real conspiracies (the Suez Crisis comes to mind).