déclencher

Ils seraient ravis, eux, que nous ayons déclenché un puissant mouvement national de réclamation de la base, pour pouvoir ensuite avoir un prétexte facile pour se lancer dans des aventures, berner l'opinion publique nord-américaine et mondiale, dire que nous les avons attaqués.
They would have loved it if we had started a strong national movement claiming the base in order to have an easy pretext for their adventures, to deceive US and world public opinion, to say that we have attacked them.
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