Probably war is the only response.
Based on literature, of course
The Greatest Man in the World, by James Thurber
https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Thurber_Greatest_Man.pdf (pdf)
Wag The Dog (movie) Old Shoe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
The film centers on a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal.
The President of the United States is caught making advances on an underage girl inside the Oval Office less than two weeks before the election. Conrad Brean, a top spin doctor, is brought in by presidential aide Winifred Ames to take the public's attention away from the scandal. He decides to construct a fictional war in Albania, hoping that the media will concentrate on this instead.
But when the CIA—in collusion with the president's rival candidate—reports that the war has ended, the media begins to revert its focus to the president's sexual misconduct scandal. To counter this, Motss invents a hero who was left behind enemy lines in Albania.
yada yada
When the team goes to retrieve Schumann, they discover that he is actually a criminally insane Army convict.
(more at the Wikipedia spoiler article ....)
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