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   GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 08:18:25 JST GeniusMusing

   • simsa04
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   From what I have read in the news, I am going to guess it did come from the US, most likely from someone inside and loyal to a certain party that is not the current presidents.
   
   That is the source, as to the why.
   
   Wag the Dog Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog#%22Wag_the_dog%22_term_and_usage
   
   >The political phrase wag the dog is used to indicate that attention is purposely being diverted from something of greater importance to something of lesser importance. The idiom stems from the 1870s. In a local newspaper, The Daily Republican: "Calling to mind Lord Dundreary's conundrum, the Baltimore American thinks that for the Cincinnati Convention to control the Democratic party would be the 'tail wagging the dog'."[30]
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   >The phrase, then and now, indicates a backwards situation in which a small and seemingly unimportant entity (the tail) controls a bigger, more important one (the dog). It was again used in the 1960s. The film became a "reality" the year after it was released, due to the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Days after the scandal broke, President Bill Clinton ordered missile strikes against two countries, Afghanistan and Sudan.[31] During his impeachment proceedings, Clinton also bombed Iraq, drawing further "wag the dog" accusations[32] and with the scandal still on the public's mind in March 1999, his administration launched a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.[33]
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     • simsa04
     @simsa04 @geniusmusing At the time, there was a sizable group of people who thought that the Serbia/Kosovo campaign was partially motivated by Clinton's political problems at home.
     
     If Wikipedia captures that without endorsing the viewpoint (I haven't checked yet), then that's a point in its favor. Often, it loses such details as editors try to purge undesired viewpoints.
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     GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 02:58:17 JST GeniusMusing

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw48a1 @simsa04
     Pentagon leaks: US air national guardsman, 21, identified as suspect US military | The Guardian
     https://nu.federati.net/url/290128
     
     >The man believed to be responsible for the leak of hundreds of US defence documents that have laid bare military secrets and upset Washington’s relations with key allies is reported to be a 21-year-old air national guardsman based in Massachusetts.
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     >Jack Teixeira was the leader of an online chat group who uploaded hundreds of photographs of secret and top secret documents, according to the New York Times. The online group called itself Thug Shaker Central, made up of 20 to 30 young men and teenagers who shared their love of guns, racist memes and video games.
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