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Any False Flag Operation can be used to generate a PretextForWar. If a False Flag Operation is perpetrated by an individual villain or group start a war for private benefit, it's a case of WarForFunAndProfit. If the attack is directed against the guys you're posing as (as opposed to your own), it's DressingAsTheEnemy. When done on an individual level to justify a killing, it's a SelfDefenseRuse. When they disguise ''someone else'', it's DisguisedHostageGambit. If the intent is to incite two villainous groups to wipe each other out, it can either be EvilVersusEvil or EnemyCivilWar. Thus, it is the third of UsefulNotes/TheThirtySixStratagems.

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Any False Flag Operation can be used to generate a PretextForWar. If a False Flag Operation is perpetrated by an individual villain or group to start a war for private benefit, it's a case of WarForFunAndProfit. If the attack is directed against the guys you're posing as (as opposed to your own), it's DressingAsTheEnemy. When done on an individual level to justify a killing, it's a SelfDefenseRuse. When they disguise ''someone else'', it's DisguisedHostageGambit. If the intent is to incite two villainous groups to wipe each other out, it can either be EvilVersusEvil or EnemyCivilWar. Thus, it is the third of UsefulNotes/TheThirtySixStratagems.
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* In the epilogue of ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'', Ewan finds a safe deposit box key in the jacket of the man he killed earlier. He discovers a folder and video camera. He watches the tape, which identifies the man as Hussein Malik, an undercover SIS agent. Ewan, after seeing the file and recording, deduces that Charlotte engineered Malik's death, Ewan's assassination attempt, and framed Scott for being corrupt to cover her tracks.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': Some Lamanites who have deserted to the Nephites conceal their change of allegiance, pretending to be escapees, in order to get close to the guards over the city of Gid.
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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident Mukden Incident]] provided the pretext for the invasion of Manchuria by Japan.

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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident Mukden Incident]] provided the pretext for the invasion of Manchuria by Japan. Two officers of the Imperial Japanese Army staged an act of sabotage on a railway under their control, then blamed it on the Chinese.
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* Happens on ''Website/GoAnimate'' when a bad user false flags an innocent user's video from Website/YouTube and giving them a community guideline strike. The innocent user would call the police to arrest the bad user for false flagging.

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* Happens on ''Website/GoAnimate'' ''Platform/GoAnimate'' when a bad user false flags an innocent user's video from Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube and giving them a community guideline strike. The innocent user would call the police to arrest the bad user for false flagging.

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