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Operation Popeye and Artificial Rain
The roots of the Vietnam War go back to the Second World War and before, but it's something that happened in the 1960s and 1970s. The objective was to defeat communism and bring in democracy and human rights. Ramalakshmi: Can you talk about Operation Popeye and did it really affect the environment? In contrast, what would be the difference between it and creating artificial rain?Operation Popeye. So this is something that goes back to the Vietnam War, 1960s, 1970s. And they apparently did something called a false flag operation, the Gulf of Tonkin incident,. They used that to precipitate the war, trigger the war.
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