Instead of being "asians believed in superstitious stuff about vampires"(kinda racist), it easily could have been people being scared of getting picked up in the middle of the night by American and Phillipine soldiers and ending up dead.
Another example of how ghoulish the US military has been throughout history. I hope they all sincerely die a horrible death.
TBF, lots of people believed in superstitious stuff about vampires. Vampire belief in Europe caught fire in the 18th century, the so called Age of Enlightenment, and though the reports originated among illiterate peasants, government officials and doctors sent to investigate were unable to refute them, and spread the belief through official channels and scholarly publications.
That doesn't mean when a bunch of the guerillas they supported show up in their village, murdered, that they didn't think it was the US. The article doesn't actually interview a single person. All it does is repeat whatever the CIA said.
Well yeah, it happened. But the CIA perspective is of course "haha we did this thing where we spooked people with superstition" where what actually happened was "we murdered people and dumped their bodies in sympathetic villages and that terrified people and stopped them from supporting the rebels." Like why would "vampires" decrease support for rebels? I doubt people thought the Aswang or whatever just hated rebel guerillas. That's just the CIA psychopath explanation. Yeah turns out murdering people and marking people for death makes people's self-preservation kick in.
Instead of being "asians believed in superstitious stuff about vampires"(kinda racist), it easily could have been people being scared of getting picked up in the middle of the night by American and Phillipine soldiers and ending up dead.
Another example of how ghoulish the US military has been throughout history. I hope they all sincerely die a horrible death.
TBF, lots of people believed in superstitious stuff about vampires. Vampire belief in Europe caught fire in the 18th century, the so called Age of Enlightenment, and though the reports originated among illiterate peasants, government officials and doctors sent to investigate were unable to refute them, and spread the belief through official channels and scholarly publications.
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That doesn't mean when a bunch of the guerillas they supported show up in their village, murdered, that they didn't think it was the US. The article doesn't actually interview a single person. All it does is repeat whatever the CIA said.
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Well yeah, it happened. But the CIA perspective is of course "haha we did this thing where we spooked people with superstition" where what actually happened was "we murdered people and dumped their bodies in sympathetic villages and that terrified people and stopped them from supporting the rebels." Like why would "vampires" decrease support for rebels? I doubt people thought the Aswang or whatever just hated rebel guerillas. That's just the CIA psychopath explanation. Yeah turns out murdering people and marking people for death makes people's self-preservation kick in.
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