UK Column News False Flags and Fallen Republics: Iran, 9/11, and the Architecture of Manufactured Enemies
Mar 26, 2026
Matt Ehret, Canadian historian and geopolitical analyst, gives a short tour of false-flag playbooks from ancient Rome to today. He maps intelligence sponsorship of radical Islamist movements, the framing of Iran as an enemy, and detailed anomalies around 9/11. The conversation also covers bioweapons concerns, staged cyber or biological threats, and ways to resist manufactured narratives.
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Citizen Soldier Versus Permanent Warrior State
- The Roman Republic's citizen-soldier ideal contrasts with the modern preference for a permanent militarized state that emulates the Roman Empire.
- Ehret argues founders valued Cincinnatus-style civic duty while neocon thinkers favor a careerized praetorian military.
Occult Priesthoods Shape Empires And Elites
- Mystery cults and secret priesthoods historically shaped empires by initiating elites and undermining conscience, per Ehret's reading of Roman and occult continuity.
- He traces links from Isis and Mithraic cults to modern secret societies like Skull and Bones and Scottish Rite.
Radical Islamist Currents Were Often Engineered
- Extremist strains like Salafism were historically cultivated and weaponized by intelligence services and occult influencers, not purely grassroots faith movements.
- Ehret cites Jamal al-Afghani's links to Blavatsky and British bureaus as early engineering of radical Islam.
