In the years prior to US entrance in WW2, a German of all people was convicted of kidnapping the Charles Lindbergh (America First Committee, anti-WW2, very famous and influential) baby. This made a German the most hated man in America, and derailed a significant isolationists life at a critical time, and made the Lindbergh law passable which effectively created national policing and J Edgar Hoover to craft the FBI identity we know now.
After the war, Patton himself said we fought the wrong enemy. Died after a suspicious accident.
And yet, people still deny we're constantly subject to unfathomably well coordinated, resourced, military precision levels of psychological and clandestine operations that shape the world for decades.
Being a patriot is dangerous as we've learned, and requires even more sophisticated deception and planning.
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In the years prior to US entrance in WW2, a German of all people was convicted of kidnapping the Charles Lindbergh (America First Committee, anti-WW2, very famous and influential) baby. This made a German the most hated man in America, and derailed a significant isolationists life at a critical time, and made the Lindbergh law passable which effectively created national policing and J Edgar Hoover to craft the FBI identity we know now.
After the war, Patton himself said we fought the wrong enemy. Died after a suspicious accident.
And yet, people still deny we're constantly subject to unfathomably well coordinated, resourced, military precision levels of psychological and clandestine operations that shape the world for decades.
Being a patriot is dangerous as we've learned, and requires even more sophisticated deception and planning.