Bless the real history researchers. Very few people know about this. The manipulation of public perception in the past was more easily performed because of a lack of person 2 person information exchange. It is only obvious today because of modern information exchange. The manipulators have adapted to the new tech and developed tools to try and control the narrative, but we are all proof that it is failing. Hiding the provocation of the US against the Japanese was expertly done at the time. Even today, the truth is well hidden around the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the time, I understand why they saw it as necessary to manipulate the public perception to engage the US directly into the war in Europe, but that doesn't exculpate the repeated abuse of that tool in the time that has followed since.

https://mises.org/library/how-us-economic-warfare-provoked-japans-attack-pearl-harbor

https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/did-the-us-provoke-japans-attack-on-pearl-harbor/

https://thenewamerican.com/pearl-harbor-hawaii-was-surprised-fdr-was-not/

Bless the real history researchers. Very few people know about this. The manipulation of public perception in the past was more easily performed because of a lack of person 2 person information exchange. It is only obvious today because of modern information exchange. The manipulators have adapted to the new tech and developed tools to try and control the narrative, but we are all proof that it is failing. Hiding the provocation of the US against the Japanese was expertly done at the time. Even today, the truth is well hidden around the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the time, I understand why they saw it as necessary to manipulate the public perception to engage the US directly into the war in Europe, but that doesn't exculpate the repeated abuse of that tool in the time that has followed since.