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Tom Clancy's wrote a fictional book about lone mentally disturbed Japanese pilot flying a plane into the pentagon. I read it that book maybe a few weeks before 9/11. Was shocked that the US intelligence didnt see something like this happening when a fiction author did.
Trying to recall the name, but I believe it was a decapitation strike on the Capitol during the State of the Union.
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On a tangent: more countries named like that: Rhodesia. Bolivia. Colombia. Liechtenstein. Swaziland. Uzbekistan. Denmark. Russia and Belarus.
Not really even close to fair, unless you're going to claim that Cecil Rhodes' family runs "Rhodesia", Bolivar's family, Columbus, etc. presently .
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"There's a fair bit of political analysis" You mean propaganda?
Well, as they say, the first casualty of war is truth, but there are a number of factual events that fit the narrative of Russia under Putin being willing to flex its muscle and encourage instability in its neighbour to the west while inspiring Russians to dream of days of yore when they ruled half of Europe... There's the numerous videos and reports from organisations like Amnesty International, accusing Russia of b…