That 3 AM Wikipedia dive on Operation Northwoods changed how I see everything

I was reading about JFK assassination theories and stumbled on Operation Northwoods, the 1962 plan where the military wanted to fake attacks to start a war with Cuba. For years I thought all conspiracy stuff was just crazy talk from people on YouTube. But then I saw the declassified documents from the Pentagon archives and realized the government actually plotted to blow up a plane and blame it on Castro. Am I the only one who's had that gut check where a specific document flips your whole view on what's possible?

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faith_king17d ago

Hold up. You're reading one thing and jumping to a conclusion that just doesn't hold up. Operation Northwoods was proposed, sure, but it was NEVER approved or carried out by anyone in power. The entire plan got shut down hard by the civilian leadership because it was too crazy and illegal. That's actually the SYSTEM working, not breaking down. If anything, the fact that we have those declassified documents PROVES that transparency can happen and whistleblowers exist. It's way more comforting to think there's a secret master plan than to accept that sometimes incompetent people in government just think up dumb ideas that get stopped. Most of the "conspiracy" world relies on taking proposals for ideas as if they were actually done, which is just bad history.

king.robin17d ago

My buddy found declassified docs about a fake alien invasion plan. Never happened.