The president of the United States of America, in a recent press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused the visiting diplomat of wanting a third world war. Zelenskyy rejected that notion, and his disbelief of the comment was self-evident given his response - his faced looked of shock. The behavior from the American president was unbecoming of any world leader, but what the behavior exposed was the American president's call for World War III by using a tactic called Accusation In A Mirror.
Accusation in a mirror is defined as a false claim that accuses the target of something that the perpetrator is doing or intends to do. It's kind of like a preemptive accusation. It's a way to start a war and try to place blame on the target. In this case, the American president falsely accused the Ukrainian president of wanting a war. When a war starts, he'll blame Ukraine with hope that the general population will support his efforts to end the war when in fact the goal is to profit from it - monetarily and geographically. This tactic isn't new for the American president. His strategy has always been to accuse others of what he is doing and plans to do. But this is dangerous. This could mean the deaths of millions of people worldwide. War could come to American soil.
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