🧩 BND Motif Index · M933
Might makes right
A power is said to take land, waters or resources because it can, and to call its strength a right: the 51st state, the Strait of Hormuz, the settlers' harvest.
- 7claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Monroe Doctrine
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
🎙️ The Take (Al Jazeera)
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Greenland disputes trump's claims of imminent oil and gas exploration 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-16
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “Israel is stealing land by maintaining security zones in southern Lebanon.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Tucker Carlson Show - 2026-10-23 “The Israeli government is a psychotic, genocidal state attempting to steal land in Gaza and Lebanon.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-22 “Putin is attempting to recreate the Soviet Union by reclaiming Ukrainian territory.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-18 “Israeli settlers believe stealing olive harvests is a right.”
🎙️ The Take (Al Jazeera) - 2026-10-16 “Donald Trump says Canada will end up being the 51st state.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “Trump claims the United States owns the Strait of Hormuz.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-15 “Donald Trump claims the U.S. will begin massive oil and gas drilling in Greenland, though others argue this is an inaccurate claim about ownership and scale.” 🧶 people online
M933 · first seen 2026-10-13 · last 2026-10-23 · what this is · how the index works