How do we know what countries supported others in wars?

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I just saw a video about the Nigerian civil war and I started wondering about this. What do we do if a country is trying to support a side and not tell the world. On top of that, if the country does not tell the world will it come out in time or will we just never know?

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Supporting a war effort isn’t the kind of thing you can keep secret. Thousands of public sector workers would be involved. You can’t allocate government resources to a foreign war without people noticing. It’s too big not to notice.

You can apply this common sense to a lot of other subjects too, especially conspiracy theories. Take the flat-earthers for instance, their belief hinges on the fact that the supposed secret of the Earth’s shape has been kept tightly for thousands of years despite requiring the complicity of every physicist, every nation, every satellite TV provider, and every airline on Earth. Obviously that’s ridiculous and if such a secret existed it’d be impossible to hide at such a scale. The same thing applies to your question, war support involves too many people and too many resources to ever be completely 100% hidden.

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