Agitprop ops are part of the psychological warfare spectrum, and part of the terrorism framework insomuch as they are intended to push public opinion toward a mass psychosis of fear, malleable to the responses needed by the perpetrator. But are Europeans “crying wolf” too much for their own good?
Unintended consequences: The June 28, 1914, assassination in Sarajevo of Austria’s crown prince, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the Archduchess, Sofia, planned by the Russian secret service, but blamed on the Serbs, triggered World War I and, in turn, World War II. Assassination illustrated in the Italian newspaper La Domenica del Corriere, July 12, 1914, by Achille Beltrame