We could go back further... Spanish-American War? Same. exact. pattern. of affairs over a hundred years ago.
Begins with a bang up false flag:
"The
United States Navy battleship
Maine was mysteriously sunk in
Havana harbor;
The anti-war president is goaded into war:
"...political pressures from the
Democratic Party pushed the administration of
Republican President
William McKinley into a war that he had wished to avoid."
U.S. backs the rebels:
"Revolts had been occurring for some years in Cuba against Spanish rule. The U.S. later backed these revolts upon entering the Spanish–American War."
Mainstream Media arouses popular support:
"In the late 1890s, U.S. public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propaganda led by newspaper publishers such as
Joseph Pulitzer and
William Randolph Hearst which used
yellow journalism to call for war." "You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish the war." -Hearst
The popular intelligent empathetic cynics rage... Mark Twain:
"We have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world."
The leaders exhibit schizophrenic justifications simultaneously admitting the war was about resources and empire while hypocritically claiming a humanitarian need to stop the devastation and destruction... Theodore Roosevelt:
"Our own direct interests were great, because of the Cuban tobacco and sugar, and especially because of Cuba's relation to the projected Isthmian [Panama] Canal. But even greater were our interests from the standpoint of humanity. ... It was our duty, even more from the standpoint of National honor than from the standpoint of National interest, to stop the devastation and destruction. Because of these considerations I favored war."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish–American_War