Knowledge Fight’s #891 (April 2–5, 2004) dissects Alex Jones’ misrepresentations: Philip Dean’s inflammatory yard signs (ignoring prior judge clashes), Miami police corruption framed through racist lenses, and a "SWAT raid" over a stolen chicken (Speckles) killed by an unrelated teen. Jones also peddles a debunked WWII lighthouse conspiracy—Japanese subs I-25 and I-26 shelled it in 1942, not U.S. orchestration—while conflating custody battles with Nevada’s obstruction laws. The episode reveals how Jones weaponizes half-truths to paint systemic oppression, exposing his "Infowars filter" as a tool for sensationalism over facts. [Automatically generated summary]
Which is to say I figured out how to make a PDF, which is great, at almost 40. I think it's interesting that you've been putting Excel on your resume for all these years.
I had planned a joke where my bright spot was going to be the awesome Games Done Quick because I knew it was going to be yours and I was going to steal it from you.
There's a part we're not going to listen to at all where Alex gets really mad at a guy for not giving specifics about how there's another son that's going to crash into the Earth.
Two years ago, I told you that I saw Governor Ridge, even before Homeland Security got funding in late 2002, on C-SPAN with a whole bunch of corporate chieftains.
Two-hour press conference or meeting, and I taped it.
Got it in the big stacks here.
Someday I hope to put a clip of it in a video.
And Governor Ridge said to have a job, your ID card, your national ID card through the driver's license will have your four levels of security clearance.
You'll have to be federal approved to have a job anywhere.
And with the new national sales tax, that will bring federal enforcement into every business as the overseers.
Well, the Washington Times reported on this five days ago.
And I just learned of it, and I have the article.
So you can tune in here and hear it two years before, or you can just read the mainstream media and find out later.
It says, if you're on the list, no job for you.
That's the headline.
And if you end up getting on the list, how do you do that?
Well, bad credit.
You go from a green to a yellow, and you have to go...
Work off the debts to be able to get a job.
I mean, the government's going to have the new national civilian draft to work domestically for them.
In environmental land-grabbing programs, gun-grabbing, Stasi title-tail squads, it's all been announced.
The Washington Times article that Alex is talking about is actually about the, if you have people who hire things for positions in infrastructure-critical roles, there is a database that they can check people who apply for those jobs on to see if they have any flags that come up.
So this has to do with a fella named Philip Dean who had just gone through a particularly nasty divorce in which his ex-wife got custody of their kids.
So, it is true that he posted a sign on his yard that said, quote, our court system is a joke.
But what Alex fails to mention is that there were three other signs.
One said, quote, Judge Harrelson said my minor children 13 and 15 need to be with her mother even though she let them smoke pot, take drugs, and run wild.
And he had a sheriff bring Philip in where he was held for about 26 hours before appearing for the judge and being released and he got an apology for the whole mess.
Yeah, this one is a whole big mess because on some very basic aspects, I agree with the underlying point that Alex is trying to make, which is that it's wrong that this guy got arrested for putting up a yard sign.
If you present the image that the guy was just a concerned citizen and put one sign up saying the courts are a joke, then he was arrested, it seems comically tyrannical.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
However, if you present the story with all its details, like how he was embroiled in a nasty divorce and custody battle, how there were four-yard signs, one of which directly named the judge, you get a slightly different picture.
If you consult the relevant information and read up on his later unsuccessful attempts to sue the officers who arrested him, you come away with the impression that Philip Dean is kind of an asshole.
Right.
He sucks, but that does not mean that he should have been arrested for something that's more or less his free speech.
Right.
he needs to paint this guy as like a blameless hero who's just sick of the corruption.
He might be just like you, random InfoWars listener, sick of the corruption to the point where he decided to take action by putting up a single innocent sign.
But the state was too threatened by this that they had to illegally crush this dissent, small as it may have been.
It's an oversimplification that I think hurts the audience's ability to engage with the story as it actually is in the real world.
You can have figures that you stand by because of principle, but who suck.
Not everyone has to be a blameless hero in order for you to have their back, but I suspect that that nuance is difficult for Alex's brand of narrative to cope with.
Like, you have to deal with this guy kind of sucks.
Miami cops found guilty in gun planting conspiracy, closing a chapter in the city's biggest police corruption scandal in decades, the Sun Sentinel.
A federal grand jury, federal jury, excuse me, convicted three Miami police officers Thursday of conspiring to cover up questionable shootings by lying about guns planted near suspects' bodies.
Lieutenant Israel Izzy Gonzalez, Sergeant Jose Pepe, that's his name, Plinterio, and Officer Jorge, nicknamed Termite Garcia, showed no emotion as the jury returned its verdict after days of contentious deliberations and...
A dismissed juror who disagreed with the majority said she was told by another juror, go back to Cuba.
So these specific cops were pieces of shit, and they planted evidence to justify things like a 1997 shooting of an unhoused person who the officer thought had a gun, but it turned out it was a Walkman.
So she very well may have just not reached the point of being beyond reasonable doubt based on the evidence that was presented.
But the racist comment that she was subjected to paints her disagreement as being based in an unwillingness to say any Hispanic person is guilty of anything.
When Alex reads that someone said this to her, he doesn't think, wow, that's a shitty thing to say to someone who's clearly a U.S. citizen since they're on a jury.
He does a good job of not throwing around slurs, but if you pay attention to the framing around stories that deal with race, or you notice these little throwaway moments, it's really clear.
If you're playing first-person video games where you can jump into whose point of view is who, Alex is always in the point of view of the person who's like, racism's right.
Yeah, Alex, pertaining to the man arrested for erected design, contempt the court may apply in a courtroom, but the First Amendment applies everywhere else.
Lawsuits filed by Philip have all failed on the merits in this case.
Also, you can tell by this conversation that these guys are having that they either don't know the facts of the case, or they're just lying about it.
Yeah.
Alex is saying that he had nothing to do with this judge's court, when, in fact, the judge had presided over his custody hearings, and the judge's name was on Philip's...
Yeah.
Why would Alex want to obscure that information?
Is it possible that he doesn't know?
Has he not read that deeply into paragraph three of any story about this?
It's not because it changes the hero or the villain here.
It's because if you're listening from the point of view of an Alex Jones listener circa early thousands, right?
Then your point of view changes not from, oh, this is government overreach, to this judge is a whiny loser, he should have challenged that man to a fight, fisticuffs would have solved these problems.
You know what I'm saying?
Put my name on a billboard, we fight, the name comes off!
And, I mean, look, I think it's silly to scold people for saying damn on air or something like that, but at least it's in line with his puritanicalness.
I mean, you know, now I really think it is, like, I don't want to go back in time and stop the show.
I want to go back in time and make the show better.
You know, like, if it was legit funny, if early on Alex was rewarded for being good at learning things or being funny or expressing talent in any way other than the ability to just fucking talk.
From the Masons, and there are four pictures in it, four different illustrations.
One of them is a skeleton wearing a fez, and everyone wearing the fez is stepping on, it's like people, and there are these demons with clips and scepters, and there are people being decapitated, ones being...
One's hanged, one is being sawed into.
And the people who are doing this are all wearing the fez.
And then we found a track record of them accidentally blowing people's heads off in these rituals, and it's always an accident when the Mason cops arrive.
Very serious.
And all the Masons are into this.
It's the higher-level ones, and it's been taken over by the Illuminati.
According to George Washington, it wasn't always like this.
George Washington went public against it.
John Quincy Adams and others.
And Skull and Bones is a higher level of this.
They get in coffins.
I'm not going to say the prayer on air.
It's very blasphemous.
They asked Lucifer, who they call God, Hey, Satan.
Oh, how they love it when they come to the schools to register your children with the face scans and thumb scans, and they smile with the little red herring fizzles, though.
That book has a sort of ominous name, but it's just the history of the Shriners, which explains the fezes.
They all wear fezes.
It was a cute impression that Alex did, but in the real world, the biggest impact they have is opening children's hospitals and driving around in funny cars that are too small.
I do have a couple of bones to pick with you, though, and I hope you give me a couple minutes to speak about it.
Basically, a bunch of my friends and I have been supporting you for a couple years now, and we drove up to San Francisco just this last weekend for the international inquiry about 9-11.
Yeah.
I kind of feel like you dropped the ball a little bit, man.
They were doing a mock government proceeding about 9-11, and Alex was, I guess, advertised that he was going to be on it or something.
But here's the thing I don't quite understand about that.
When he says you don't find out that you're booked to be on something because you find out you're on a list, this implies to me one of two things.
It can either be that you're on the list of attendees, and that's how you find out, or if you're on a government list and you got on it because of being invited to be on this thing, which would imply that the people who are running it are feds.
I don't know which he's trying to imply, but it could be either or both.
That's why it makes sense to me for him to find out that...
That's what makes sense to me, is that they're having a stupid mock trial or a thing, and they're like, oh, Alex is going to be there, and he's like, I just...
I just found out about this when you screamed at me.
So, you know, it's on 6th Street during South by Southwest, so there's a bunch of people with cameras around.
So the reality of the situation came out pretty fast, particularly that the police acted inappropriately and that Yamaguchi wasn't trying to hit this cop with his drum.
I think, yeah, no, it's a good decision all around on everybody's part, because they should be putting public pressure onto the fucking cops, for sure.
And remember the story Friday out of Alabama in their local newspapers and television stations reporting that a man put a sign up in his yard saying that our court system is a joke and proving that point, the local judge had him arrested and said, disrespect to government is illegal.
Came out and said, you're not allowed to criticize us.
This is what they think.
And sounds unbelievable, but it's actually happening.
And then we got a call Friday from a listener claiming that in Oregon, he saw a local news story, and I had seen a blurb about it, that a man saved a homeless chicken that lived on the street in front of a grocery store.
So he got a vicious SWAT team raid and was beat up and is now being charged himself of very serious crimes.
He probably wasn't a malicious person in this act.
Maybe just delusional.
Because after he stole speckles, he bought a hen and a rooster so that none of the birds would be lonely.
At some point it became known that he was the one who had taken the chicken, so the police contacted him and asked him to give speckles back, which he refused to do.
Things turned a little bit ugly when the police came to his house and wanted to retrieve this stolen chicken, and he threatened them, which led to him going to jail for theft as well as threatening officers.
So this guy decided to kidnap a mascot chicken from a grocery store because he thought he could raise it better.
It's being reported by Alex as a case where the government just oppressed a good Samaritan who wanted to help out a chicken experiencing homelessness.
This is what we call the Infowars filter, where a real-life story gets turned into complete bullshit designed to make the audience feel like they're under attack.
What if you just thought you could help this chicken out, but you'd get raided by the swap team and they'd all beat you up?
In the present, though, because he doesn't get those cool stories and he just goes off headlines from, like, regular mainstream media, we don't get to find out the interesting, all of a sudden, this weird divorce guy stories.
They entered the war in September 1939, a good two years before Pearl Harbor, which Alex also thinks is a false flag that the globalists pulled to get the country into war.
Now, I know that I hear Alex saying that he's not into the Nazis, but man, he sure seems to think that everybody who fought them was tricked into doing it.
Oza Motley, the Grammy Award winning band, and it's not some heavy metal band, it's not Janet Jackson, it's...
one nipple on tv and the world went fucking insane um band music and caribbean music i mean i'm not the connoisseur sure of music but just a tame band never been in trouble never had any problems and the fire marshal came in and said during south by southwest a few weeks ago you need to get a lot of these people out of the building will you help us and they said sure we'll do a moringa you know i'm I'm sorry, that's the story we're going with?
I mean, it's a big party down there.
And then the black ski mask guardians that take good care of us ran up and said, get back in the club.
They said, okay, tried to turn around and had the police behind them yelling at them.
And one of the band members had his big drum up above his head, because that's how you get through a crowd, and he's trying to carry it.
And the police thought that that was threatening and ran in and jumped on him, and then they fell over.
And this is the new America.
They assault you on video.
I mean, that'd be like watching a pro football game and somebody sticks the quarterback after the ball's not in play, and you watch the linebacker break the ribs of the quarterback, blood sprays from the quarterback's mouth, and then the police come and arrest the quarterback and say, you devil, you assaulted them.
First of all, I can find no indication that the fire marshal told Ozo Motley to help get people out of the Exodus Club, which is the name of the bar they're playing at.
They would likely never be put in that situation, since bars have staff that handles that kind of thing, and they would never need to rely on a band like Pied Piper-ing the crowd out of the building.
That's nuts.
Also, in an interview they did with Pitch KC, they said, quote, we always end an Ozo show with a conga line.
We had gone outside with it when we'd played Austin before, so we didn't know that it would be a problem.
It's not enough that the police outside told them to stop it.
They needed to only have gone outside because some other agent of the state had told them they needed to.
This way, Alex can create the impression of a trap being set by the state, where they get you to do something with one hand and then punish you for doing it with the other.
The other thing Alex is misrepresenting is the issue with the drummer.
He did hit an officer with his drum, but it was totally an accident.
Alex is pretending this isn't the case because it makes it easier for him to sell his story when the party you're supposed to be pulling for didn't even do the thing that they're accused of.
It's really easy to side with Osamotli and see this as an instance of overzealous police response without rewriting any of the story, and yet Alex does just that.
There's a couple of reasons he does this.
The first is just narrative simplicity.
He wants to make this super easy for the audience to get on board with and not have pesky questions in their head like, why would they do a Congo line out into the streets at 2.30 in the morning?
To sidestep any of the possible audience response like that, Alex includes the preemptive answer in the form of the story about the fire marshal imploring them to do the Congo line.
The other reason is that Alex isn't up to the task of arguing a sticky point.
If it's possible that the members of the band made some mistakes themselves, it's so much harder for Alex to make his argument because he's lazy.
They have to have done nothing wrong, and the state oppressed them anyway.
You can use the wrong equation and get the right answer sometimes.
But it's unreliable.
And I just, I resent it.
It is fascinating that when you look at these things, like from 2004, it is more common that we come up with a, like, well, yeah, I mean, Alex is saying that it's wrong that they arrested these members of Oza Motley, and like, yep, that's true.
By the way, in England, ID cards to be compulsory by 08. Tony Blair says after the latest bombs they supposedly found and saved everybody from, the same British government that's been caught blowing up their own buildings, the same British government that's been caught running a fake Ryerson scare last year, everyone in Britain can be forced to have identity cards within five years under a fast-track plan by David Blunkett, which is backed by Tony Blair and gaining support within the Cabinet.
And it says that the public is very angry.
They say this is Nazi Germany, Big Brother.
But you see, in England, they're more honest about it.
I'm a logging contractor, self-employed, and I went through a bad divorce, and the mother was letting the children run wild and take drugs and into all kinds of trouble, so I took her back to court on June the 23rd of last year to try to seek custody of my two daughters.
I have three kids, but I have custody of my son.
Okay, when we went back to court, I hired an attorney that wasn't no good, and he never got it into court, so I had to get another attorney, paid another attorney, supposed to have been the best attorney in Scottsboro.
We go to court, my ex-wife shows up without an attorney, and the judge gives the kids back to her.
This is just supposed to be a guy with a political message to get out and a judge with no connection to him punishing him for daring to criticize the state.
Because I know the story.
When I hear Dean get into this, I'm not surprised.
But if I were an average InfoWars listener, I might be confused as to why this brave patriot is starting off his story complaining about custody hearings.
It doesn't seem on message or on point because the point is Yeah, it is one of the things where we do consistently see him running up against people who do not know what the game is in the past.
He has a lot of guests on who are suddenly surprised to be like, wait, wait, wait, you didn't want me to say the thing that you did?
But as long as Alex was laying the groundwork of this storyline, he's not giving the audience a window in until it's forced in by the subject of the story itself.
Similar sign that says Judge Harrelson said my minor children aged 13 and 15 need to be with her mother even though she let some smoke pot, take drugs, and run wild.
Okay, so now instead of simply going after you or something else, he believes he's got, he has to take your property, no zoning violation, you're on a county road, 107.
They're trapped in the country, and these are little signs.
You stick them in your yard, but they don't come up with some little technicality to try to get you.
They just take your signs, take your property in America, something our veterans have fought and died for.
Well, all these lawyers told my sister not no, but hell no.
Okay.
One of the attorneys I was friends with in Scotchboro that I've known for a long time, he called my sister back on the phone and told her, said, I didn't tell you this, but you need to get out of Scotchboro and get your brother a lawyer because...
Everyone in Scotchbur is as scared to go up the god against the god, Judge Harold.
Hey, I don't, believe me, I don't discount the insane power of a municipal court judge out of control.
You know, you read stories about the, you know, the ones that are like, ah, I judge you to blah, and then you're like, you can't really do that, and they're like, apparently I can't!
You get the sense listening to this interview that Philip Dean is primarily focused on his family.
This whole thing started because he had a belief that his children were not being raised in a safe environment with his ex-wife.
He put up the sign primarily because he lost the custody hearing, and then he couldn't afford what it would cost to pay a lawyer for an appeal, which convinced him that the court system is a joke.
He did seem to target the judge in the case more than really expensive lawyers, but I'll leave that to the side.
The point is, he mostly just cares about his family.
He seems pissed off at the court, and this judge in particular, but he's mad because their decisions left his kids with his ex-wife, who he thinks is not keeping them safe.
Yeah.
all he just wants to use dean's story as a prop to incite the audience against the prevailing power structure he just wants to do all this shit about how judges are selfish and vain gods meeting out justice on their petty whims it's an interesting dynamic because i don't think that dean is that politically inclined but he has a story that's very useful to be exploited by alex who is deeply politically inclined it doesn't feel like dean is an unwilling participant in this whole thing and he's definitely going along with whatever alex's story is
is laying down, but I get a strong sense that if someone had just agreed to represent him in his custody appeal pro bono, none of this would be happening.
So in that clip, you have Alex doing something that you very rarely see, which is presenting stories that he's able to provide connective tissue for in order to build a theme.
The case of Oza Motley involves a band ending their show with a conga line at 2.30 in the morning, which police told them they needed to stop.
At which point the crowd got a little heated and the drummer accidentally hit an officer with his drum.
The police overreacted in response to the entire thing, which was remedied by a compromise in scaled-down charges.
It was a police overreaction and resolved.
The case of Philip Dean is one of judicial overstepping, but it's also a case that it's a bit more debatable than Alex wants you to think.
Dean had previous business in front of the judge and directly attacked him in one of the yard signs that Alex tried to pretend didn't exist.
There's a possibility that when the judge ordered Dean to be brought in for contempt, he thought that Dean still had business in front of the court, like he may not have known that the time limit for his custody appeal had left.
That doesn't make this okay, but it makes it more understandable why it would possibly be considered contempt by the judge.
Sure.
The police overstepped, but only because they were following the orders of the judge.
So this really isn't similar to the Ozomotli case.
And then we have the case of the Nicholas Gombos, where a guy steals a chicken because he thought he could raise it better than the grocery store for whom it was a mascot.
It was somebody else's, and he refused to return it and then threatened the police when they came to retrieve someone else's property that he'd stolen.
He wasn't SWAT teamed, and he has memory problems, which is going to call into question a lot of the stuff, like his claim that someone told him it was okay to take speckles, or that he called to give them updates.
Yeah, if you wanted to put connective tissue between all of these things, it would just simply be that if you send people with guns to somewhere, they're going to make someplace worse.
But as it stands with gombos, this isn't a case of the police or a judge overstepping.
It's a case of a man stealing a chicken and thinking it was his right to do that because he felt he could treat it better than its owner.
It's a case of a crime being committed and the police arresting someone for that crime.
But, by subtle finesse, Alex is able to wrap all these cases into a neat little bow, making them appear to be a part of the cohesive whole.
But if you examine these cases more closely, that cohesive whole is just based on vibes.
Alex wants you to feel a certain way about these cases, and that is the connective tissue.
They're not all cases of police brutality.
They're not all cases of judicial impropriety.
They're not all cases of people's rights being infringed.
There's nothing that holds them firmly together other than they each have good optics for Alex to use to make the listeners scared that the man is coming for them so long Alex is able to fudge some of the details in order to build that vibe up.
For instance, in that clip, Alex says that Nicholas asked people if he could take the chicken, and they said it was fine.
That never happened.
And if you read the source that Alex himself is citing, they make it very clear that he visited the store after hours.
There was no one there to get permission from, but Alex knows that if he lies about that, it makes his subject seem more blameless, and that helps him build the vibe of outright Somewhat comical police oppression.
Because he can make it look like this is all about completely out of the blue, just the state wanting to do this to you, as opposed to just some people who make some bad reactions to people being dicks.
So much of this is just like, listen, if you are a judge, you need to understand that if you act like an asshole like this, Alex is going to convince a million people that all judges are full of shit and evil.
Like, that's on you.
That's on every single fucking one of you because you get to wear a pretend robe that makes you powerful.
Every time you put it on, you have to be better than the people who are not wearing the robe.
Now, at the same time, as a judge, he's a public figure, so the bar for what you can and can't say about them is a little wider than if he was just a private citizen.
But, you know, these instances, except for the chicken one, all have, like...
Now, they couldn't charge him with stealing a chicken, so what they do is then they claim that he didn't follow their orders, that he obstructed an officer, a failure to follow an officer's order.
Because he didn't let them in without a warrant.
See, that's how it works now.
And they got a Supreme Court ruling on last Monday, seven days ago.
The Supreme Court ruled in a Nevada case of an old rancher on the side of the highway at his own fence, mending a fence.
The police officer pulls up and says, answer my questions, give me your ID.
And he says, son, don't be rude to me.
You know, I don't have to answer your questions.
I don't have to, well...
So now you've got to have your national ID card, you see, and he was charged and convicted of obstructing justice and resisting, which would be assault, and he got convicted of that.
They admit he didn't touch him.
This was in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, folks, in a headline, The Road to the Police State.
He didn't touch him, but it's now resisting to not answer their questions.
And so that's the same thing now that Nick Gombos is facing.
Alex said that they couldn't charge him with stealing the chicken at the beginning of the clip, but they very much did.
I was going to say, that seems like...
He had a third degree theft charge that he was hit with, and Alex is pretending that didn't happen because it works better for this police state nonsense.
So there had been a report to the police of a woman being assaulted, and the description of the perpetrator was that he was driving a red and silver GMC truck.
They found a truck fitting that description, seemingly hastily pulled over to the side of the highway, and Larry Heibel was outside of it smoking a cigarette.
When there's something being investigated and the police have a reasonable suspicion about you, you are required to identify yourself to them in the state of Nevada.
That is a law that is on the books in Nevada.
Heibel didn't do that, and he was charged with obstructing an officer over it, and then he took it all the way to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled that Nevada's stop-and-identify law was not unconstitutional, which has literally zero bearing on how the Oregon police handled a guy who stole a chick.
I could assume, if she wasn't saying it was a long conversation and that this was the end result of it, I could see them calling and some low-level employee who didn't know anything.
Also, in the article that Alex is using as a source from the Mail Tribune, Kathy is quoted as saying she and her husband, quote, were not regular shoppers at the store as a way of claiming ignorance that the chicken that they'd taken was the store's mascot.
Well, see, there is one interesting wrinkle to this story, and that is in the aftermath of them stealing the chicken and this becoming a big public to-do, there was the local animal folks chimed in that it was like, this is not...
It's a sanitary or safe thing to have a chicken as a mascot.
They get done with the billboard slash chicken interviews, and Alex decides he's going to go to calls.
And, oh my lord, what a mistake.
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Well, I'm not quite sure if this is the right time to talk to you about this, but you know how the New World Order is always hiding things in plain view?
This is a great encapsulation of most conspiracy theories, where there's basically zero evidence of something, but you found a potential motive for a certain act to have been carried out, so you skip over the lack of evidence, and you just arrive at the conspiracy conclusion.
Conscription was unpopular in Canada, but after this attack on the lighthouse, people were more open to it.
Thus, it must have been a false flag in order to sway the public towards conscription.
Unfortunately for someone like Alex, imagining a motive isn't the same thing as solving a case, and in this case, there's tons of evidence that Japan did the attack.
For one, there are pieces of shells that hit the lighthouse that have been found and are on display publicly, and they're Japanese.
Second, Japanese military documents have been discovered that prove that two submarines, the I-25 and I-26, were responsible for the attack, as well as one on the American Fort Stevens in Oregon.
And a single entry in the then-lightkeeper's notes, which said that the attack was carried out by warships, when in reality, it had been done by submarines.
People who want to see a conspiracy insist that the lightkeeper must have been right, whereas the more likely explanation was offered by Canadian naval historians Michael Whitby and Bill Rawling in an article in the Ottawa Citizen.
Quote, The witness testimony cited to support the conspiracy theory in the article is also flawed.
Rather than coolly watching the attack, the lighthouse keeper ran down the stairs of a 125-foot structure, found his wife to warn her to take cover, and then ran all the way back up the stairs to douse the light.
Presumably, this took some time and effort and impaired his ability to observe the relatively short attack.
As for identifying warship types, trained military personnel consistently make errors along the lines of aircraft attacking whales, Yeah.
But again...
Alex needs to come up with sneaky explanations for how everyone got tricked into fighting the Nazis.
But don't worry, he's not a fan.
He's not a fan of those Nazis.
Just everyone should have been minding their own business.
Not gotten sucked into or tricked into fighting World War II.