New strikes on Iran were 'self-defence', say US | BBC News (youtube.com)
What might be most interesting is that any (quite a percentage of) Americans still believe any of that kind of statements, like that there's negotiations that are serious and they're making progress and they expect a peace soon. The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf would have to be rewritten for a modern audience. Citizens seem to have no limit to the amount of lies they will believe coming from their leaders, even if their leaders have lied to them countless times before and even if they know their leaders have no problem lying or even hold it to be a valid way of communicating.
Would like to see a study on what the actual limits are, if there actually even are any limits to it.
Napolean was known to be a liar, and was supported by the French and admired globally while he devastated 'his' country's finances, its empire, its civil rights, and killed so many French along with so many Europeans in what most understood to be heroism, ie patriotic war. A huge spectacle, much political bravery, and left France much weaker when he pushed till failure. Stalin was understood to be a liar, and Mao. Name a heroic war leader who wasn't?