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Donald Trump recently joked that the US should attack Russia using Chinese flag to set China and Russia into war with one another. Is there any historical example of a successful or unsuccessful false flag operation by a third country to set two countries into war with one another?

by /u/Chancelor_Palpatine in /r/AskHistorians

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