We are celebrating this month the US Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. You may recall this action from your history. An outnumbered US Navy aircraft carrier force ambushed the Japanese fleet, sinking four carriers at the loss of only one, and taking out many of Japan's planes and most experienced air crews. It was a blow from which the IJN would never recover and turned the tide in the Pacific to the Americans. It is considered by many to have been the turning point in the Pacific War.

At the end of the Hollywood film made of this battle, it is said that Admiral Yamamoto (who had planned both Pearl Harbor and the Midway campaign) was told of the disaster by one of his officers, who added "What shall we tell the Emperor?" Yamamoto was said to have replied. "You can leave that to me."

After the war, military historians recovered the official IJN report on the battle (see link below). Reading it today, it is really difficult to find any evidence that the Japanese Navy suffered its most disastrous defeat in history, and that it had essentially snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It is a masterpiece of spin.

I suspect something very much like that is now going on at EPA, NASA, and the White House.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/j/japanese-story-of-the-battle-of-midway.html