Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Political Misdirection: A Case Study In Public Manipulation Left to right: G. David Schine, Roy Cohn, and Joseph McCarthy. Neutral Denmark and Germany’s laying mines off their coastal waters in the international waterways that constitute the Danish Straits in August 1914 and Great Britain and the Allies remain silent, inclusive of the deafening silence from the press, even though access to the Baltic Sea is critical for the Allies to roll up Germany quickly by (a) closing the Baltic Sea to all German surface/subsurface vessels; (b) denying German access to trade with Sweden; (c) bringing the Royal Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy together; (d) forcing Germany to relocate critically needed infantry divisions and heavy armaments away from the Western Front for the new Baltic Front; (e) allowing British and Russian troop landings across the Baltic coasts, pr...