Machiavelli, The Prince, Starting Wars, and Wagging the Tail
I hope this topic can be a study of history and how what we think happened is often subterfuge using Machiavellian principles.
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2016/02 ... tted-fact/
In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:
(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this.
See the link above for the article.
The poet and philosopher George Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Who writes history? Those in power do, or at least they supervise the writers and tell them what to say, and so the lies persist until they are brought to light in future generations.
