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    HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 19:22:27 JSTHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸  🏴HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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    ...came at a very convenient time for him and he is pursuing a "Wag-The-Dog"* strategy. Even a limited escalation of the conflict would be in HIS best interest , as it would further deflect from his potential wrongdoing.

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

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      Wag the Dog
      Wag the Dog is a 1997 American political satire black comedy film produced and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. The film centers on a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet was loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's 1993 novel, American Hero. Wag the Dog was released one month before the news broke of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and the bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the Clinton administration in August 1998, which prompted the media to draw comparisons between the film and reality. The comparison was also made in December 1998, when the administration initiated a bombing campaign of Iraq during Clinton's impeachment trial for the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. It was made again in spring 1999, when the administration intervened in the Kosovo War and initiated a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, which, coincidentally, bordered Albania and contained ethnic Albanians. The film grossed $64.3 million on a $15 million budget, and...
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