Dictators often use the murder of allies to begin purges.

[NNadir]

Perhaps the most famous was the murder of Sergei Kirov by a disgruntled ex-communist party member. There is some evidence and speculation that Stalin set the whole thing up. All but 4 of Kirov's NKVD bodyguards had been removed earlier, and those remaining were widely scattered. They were all tried in show trials for negligence, and convicted, but out of sight none went to prison. Instead they were all promoted.

Stalin, who made a great display of grief over the assassination of his "friend" used the event to begin one of his great purges.

Plus ca change, c'est la meme chose.

[Wounded Bear]

1. That's because "allies" of strongmen are also rivals...nt

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Hoerst Wessel

He's an interesting case study.

[TxGuitar]

3. A "night of the long knives" underway? N/T

[NNadir]

4. We're not there yet. We're at martyr manufacture, more along the lines...

...of Horst Wessel, as noted in another post in this thread.

I'm not saying that it is actually the case, but rising dictators often use "false flag" assassinations or military actions to justify further violence or war.

Democracies also participate in "false flag" types events.

We are not immune in American history. There was, after all, the Gulf of Tonkin "incident," and perhaps the explosion of the battleship Maine, and a variety of other events of a similar nature in various incursions in Latin America.

I note that the orange pedophile has already attributed the murder of the contemptible racist morally vapid freak, being lionized in the propaganda machine, to generic "Democrats." It doesn't matter whether it's true or not whether he was killed by a Democrat or a false flag Republican. What matters is how the propaganda is received.