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a crime staged to look like someone else did it, so blame lands anywhere but home.
means an attack, incident, or act of sabotage carried out by one party but deliberately disguised as the work of another, to justify retaliation or shift blame.
from from naval warfare, where pirate and warships literally flew another nation's flag to sneak within firing range before revealing their true colors.
literal originships hoisted enemy flags to deceive before attacking
modern usagenow covers staged terror, cyberattacks, disinformation
overused onlineoften wrongly slapped on any inconvenient tragedy
for instance
gleiwitz incident 1939 — nazi germany staged a polish attack to justify invading poland
gulf of tonkin — disputed 1964 naval clash used to escalate vietnam war
operation himmler — fake polish raids nazis fabricated alongside gleiwitz same night