Base supporters weaponized job-loss fears to sway Vicenza opinion

Evidence

Around this time, the city’s major newspaper—whose controlling interest belongs to the equivalent of the city’s Chamber of Commerce—began running stories suggesting that the U.S. military would close the Caserma Ederle if prevented from building at Dal Molin. FROM EDERLE A DESPERATE SOS: “SAVE OUR JOBS,” read one headline. The reports fueled fears that rejecting the base would damage the local economy. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 911

Categorization

• XREF: Runaway-scare tactic of threatening closure connects to similar economic-threat rhetoric documented domestically and in the broader base-economy literature.