The False & Imaginary Enemy
One of propaganda tactics is to create a false and imaginary enemy that fuels the people's fears and leaves them powerless to the whims of those who lead them.
It makes people trapped and hostages to those who create such concepts and theories.
People cancel their thinking abilities, they stop using their minds and just let the leader think instead of them because he knows better, he is the saviour or why else had he proposed to lead them if he is not the only one who knows everything!
Those who use such tools inform their people that they are under a threat & if they don't strike first they will be vanished from the face of the earth.
All is fair against that false and imaginary enemy, so that false and imaginary enemy is deprived from all rights and is not regarded as human anymore.
The media and every other institution that should was supposed to act as check and balance to prevent the misuse of power and all other forms of atrocities and tragedies to occur just repeats what is being dictated by those who announce X and Z as an enemy.
We tend to forget that despite the many tragedies of wars, to those who advertise for war; it is a profitable business that enriches those who have called for and engaged in wars.
As the saying goes 'You can fool some people for some time but can't fool all people for all time' is very true. Those who went along with you will discover your lies eventually, and the empire of lies you built will fall apart, and then in history books you will be marked as another Nero who burned his own Rome, and the rest of the world as well.
Leaders have a chance and can decide what they want to become and be remembered for; another Nero's or one who made the world a better place for all and worked on making sure that equality, equity, justice, brotherhood, prosperity, peace and all the great virtues that humanity has ever known has prevailed during their time.