[noosphr]

And 60 years ago the US got into Vietnam on a completely fabricated incident.

People reading many books doesn't help when a few entities control all the information people get.

This is why the internet is so important and why people who want to save us from disinformation have more blood on their hands than every false news peddler outside the government.

[ethbr1]

If we want to be precise, the US got into Vietnam because the French left Vietnam (and someone made the argument that it couldn't possibly be left to the USSR and China).