Comment by JasonFruit
4 years ago
Chemical and biological weapons are very useful in warfare as a way to demonize one combatant. False or doubtful claims of chemical weapons deployments have an effect on the response of the public and international organizations that is entirely out of scale with the damage that could be inflicted.
Relevant if you want real life cases of military impersonation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
In general, a wikipedia link with no additional comment does little to advance a discussion in any direction.
It might be relevant, but it's an extremely low-value comment. A good chunk of the people reading the comment (and caring about it) will already know it's describing false-flag operations.
A good way to think about good HN comments is "is there a specific point I'm trying to make". Anything that doesn't try to articulate a point is likely to be downvoted.
Thank you.