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May 2014 +
Strategy of tension +
<font face="{{{font}}}">“It is proba … <font face="{{{font}}}">“It is probably fair to say that of the roughly seven billion people who live on our planet today, far less than one percent has ever heard of the "strategy of tension." And only a very few of these could illustrate the strategy with specific historical examples. It is indeed a strategy of a shadow world, known only to a few [[soldiers|military]] and [[intelligence officers]] (and some [[criminal]]s) who have carried it out, a few [[police officers]] and [[judges]] who fought against it, and a handful of [[journalists]] and academics who have written about it.</br></br>In its essence, the strategy of tension targets the emotions of human beings and aims to spread maximum fear among the target group. “Tension” refers to emotional distress and psychological [[fear]], whereas “strategy” refers to the technique of bringing about such distress and fear. A [[terrorist]] attack in a public place, such as a railway station, a market place, or a [[school]] bus, is the typical technique through which the strategy of tension is implemented. After the attack — and this is a crucial element — the secret agents who carried out the crime [[false flag|blame it on a political opponent]] by removing and planting evidence.</br></br>It must be noted that the targets of the strategy of tension are not the dead and the wounded of the terrorist attacks, as many might assume. The targets are the political opponents, who are discredited through the attack, and those who remain unharmed but learn of the attack, thereby coming to fear for their lives and those of their loved ones. Since the aims of the strategy are to discredit opponents and to create fear, the real targets are not the people who were killed, whether they number in the dozens or even thousands, but the millions of people who survive physically unharmed but emotionally [[distressed]].”.” +
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