While Americans are clearly targeted for psyops, psyops have existed as long as there has been a profit motive.
Far longer than a century, and not just in America. The Boston Tea Party was a classic false flag op, as the perpetrators dressed so as to look like their enemies (at the time indigenes were being stripped of their resources by folks that wanted everything they had).
It's important to note the difference between rhetoric and action. Thos. Jefferson said 'It is the polity of the Indians I admire most, as there is the least of it.' , but he owned slaves, became the President of the United States, and effected a great deal of polity contrary to his anti-polity statement.
Not picking on Jefferson. Just using him to point out the difference between rhetoric and action.
Nero, the Roman Emperor, is said to have used false flag operations to become rich and powerful, as the owner of a private fire department. The source of the old adage 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned.' is the accusation that his firemen set fires and then he seized the properties after putting the fires out when the property owners wouldn't pay.
Sounds exactly like Monsanto's use of courts to seize the farms of those whose crops were wind pollinated by Monsanto's GMOs.
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