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Propaganda is a hell of a drug. “Air policing.” “Special military operation.” “Surgical strike.” “No fly zone.” “No boots on the ground.” “Unmanned aerial vehic
by supertrope 3y ago
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. “Air policing.” “Special military operation.” “Surgical strike.” “No fly zone.” “No boots on the ground.” “Unmanned aerial vehicle.” When leaders believe wars can be low casualty, low civilian casualty, and fought on foreign battlegrounds instead of at home, more wars of choice will be started.
- southernplaces7 3y agoHow is “No fly zone.” a propaganda phrase? I'd call it a usefully precise, succinct description for an area in which you'll get shot right down if you fly over it. “Unmanned aerial vehicle.” too. That's exactly what they are, and calling them drones is the more ambiguous thing since a drone doesn't necessarily need to fly.
- supertrope 3y agoNo fly zones are enforced on a country by shooting down military aircraft. It sounds alluring, as it’s not called a war or invasion. But in order to do that you first have to make it safe for your own military jets by using cruise missiles on air defense systems, airbases, command posts, telecommunication hubs, etc. It’s inseparable from starting a war. A sovereign state exercises control over their territory. To deny them the ability to use forces in their own territory you have to engage in acts of war. As seen in Libya our governments proceeded to expand their mission from the UN mandate to regime change. Obama danced around the War Powers Act and the bad optics of starting a war by calling it a “kinetic military action” lol.