Casus belli machine needs a tune up if we wanna gonna get a high end product like the Gulf of Tonkin, Lusitania, or blowing up the Maine. But I think it still works well enough to meet our needs. The news around this is Dean Scream mid-2000s levels of terrifying disingenuousness and stupidity. I fully expect that a chain of events is already in motion that will lead to the deaths of at least 1 million people.