They like to say it's complicated but in reality it's just facts if you can get them straight. But there's the rub: despite all the bloodshed, the chief weapon is *not* guns and bombs. The chief weapon is narratives, whose effects distort, reframe, or memory holes facts, along with manufactured information blended in, what was the media before, and now, increasingly, social media. The mediums over time differ but the intention is always the same, to the point that there is very little reliable data on how we got to this place where the people committing literal genocide in plain sight, are somehow the victims, investigating it is heavily suppressed, and public criticism of these "victims" can lead to the gravest of consequences to ones livelihood.