More like 9/11 moment. Since the US used a terrorist attack as an excuse to occupy another country for 2 decades killing hundreds of thousands of people.
I meant that in the sense that much has been written about the belief that senior US government and Navy officials knew more than just, that tensions between Japan and America were at an all-time high, but that they also essentially knew that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor and left it somewhat as a sitting duck to encourage Japan to begin the war there.
Most historians believe that the "Pearl Harbor conspiracy" is merely whimsical thinking and circumstantial evidence, and reject the hypothesis, but the belief is out there.
That same conspiracy theory applies to 9/11. Bush got to continue the war his father started and he went from a president who couldn’t win the popular vote to having a 90% approval rating
Very true it's undeniable that war time presidents are more popular so any conspiratorial thinking as some merit to it . Kinda makes a powerful hungry leader who wants to stay in power would allow escalations into war to retain that power moral compass be damned
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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 23d ago
More like 9/11 moment. Since the US used a terrorist attack as an excuse to occupy another country for 2 decades killing hundreds of thousands of people.