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Career politicians always divert the public's attention and engage scaremongering to hide the fact that they are in fact incapable of managing the economy. They do this to stay in power. If nothing else works, blame the <insert other country, ethnic or religious minority here> and start a war.

Just look at Turkey's Erdogan. He's blaming an expat preacher and his followers for the coup in order to tigthen his grip on institutions and the media, arrest HDP (Kurdish moderate left wing party) MPs and leaders, ultimately leading to PKK (Kurdish commie extermists) reemergence. Putin is a role model for him.