Thread by @caitoz

Hmm… America Keeps Getting Attacked By Nations It Hates In Ways Only The CIA Can See

I'd like to tell you a folktale. It's called "The Emperor's New 9/11".
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Once upon a time there was an Emperor who loved war and military expansionism.

One day two men calling themselves Intelligence Experts came into town claiming that they had devised a wondrous new type of enemy threat that is invisible to the common folk.

"Hmm, well I'm not very fond of the Russians," said the Emperor. "They've been brazenly acting against our interests on the world stage and they keep getting friendlier with China. Let's set to work on them first."

"Oh, this is wonderful!" exclaimed the Emperor. "Let's do Iran now! Ooh! And China too!"

"Iran and China have been attacking the Empire's democracy!" announced the Intelligence Experts. "It's like another 9/11!"

All was going swimmingly, until one day the Emperor was parading his new 9/11 around town for the commoners to admire.

"Oh, this 9/11 is even more impressive than the last one!" exclaimed the people. "I would happily throw my body into the gears of the war machine for it!"

Then one tiny voice rang out above the rest.

"But the Emperor hasn't got a 9/11!" said a small child. "There's nothing there at all!"

The child was immediately branded a Russian propagandist and banned from Facebook and Twitter.

It is not a coincidence that all these alleged attacks on American democracy are happening in ways that only the US intelligence cartel can see.

There are all sorts of ways that a country can be attacked, but the only ways the country that is literally always at war ever gets attacked is in ways that nobody can see and we just have to take the word of the same government agencies that are responsible for the wars.

Foreign "election interference" is 9/11 minus 9/11. It gets all the same urgent media coverage of 9/11, all the same outrage and all the same demand for forceful retaliation; it just doesn't have the fallen buildings or the bereaved family members that people can look at.

Meanwhile, as the US is being victimized by these attacks that only the CIA and NSA can see, the US government is harming the American people to an infinitely greater degree than Russia, China and Iran are.

The US government is destroying untold millions of lives at home and abroad, but Americans are being told to worry about invisible attacks by foreign countries that have literally never done anything to them.

Don't be a sucker. Be the child at the Emperor's parade.