Aside from the fact that this is almost certainly not a false flag, by your logic there should never be a reason to have a false flag or some other trigger. Why do they go through with something that is objectively somewhat risky if it just doesn’t do anything? Were WMDs and the Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident just fabricated for a jape? Did the actual Reichstag fire precede those “emergency powers” by coincidence? Were the false flags in Gladio just sort of a hobby? There are more examples but you get the idea, along with real incidents like this one or – and this is much more extreme, I wouldn’t say they are remotely comparable in scale – 9/11, which was instrumental in manufacturing consent for the Patriot Act and the War on Terror. Again, you get the idea and I’m already sort of bloviating, so sorry about that.

My point is that this sort of “nuanced” take is reductionist to the point of fantasy and idealism. Obviously the Patriot Act wasn’t spawned directly from 9/11, there was more going on that was effectively in preparation for it, but for the actual passage of something as extreme as the Patriot Act on the truncated time frame that we saw, you need something like that to stoke public fear.