Russia is making propaganda as pretext for invasion

[SmCaudata]

Obviously this isn't surprising. I hope this circulates since Tucker and Co are already siding with Russia...

U.S. Exposes What It Says Is Russian Effort to Fabricate Pretext for Invasion https://nyti.ms/3AW1wdE

 

[Amused]

link with no paywall:

U.S. says Russia is developing video of fabricated attack as pretext for invading Ukraine

U.S. officials fear video could provide the spark that Putin needs to initiate and justify military operations against Ukraine.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Lezunto]

I was wondering why Putin is hesitating.

 

[iRONic]

Waiting for the director's cut!

 

[theeedude]

This BS just keeps getting better and better.

 

[SmCaudata]

This BS just keeps getting better and better.

Are you saying the claims are BS? We know that Russia engages in propaganda all the time. We know they lie to their people and the world. They shot down an airliner and flat out claimed, "wasn't me..."

Or are you saying the guy asking the question was BS? Because he was. You can't prove something that has yet to happen. You can only come to conclusions based on past and present information that has been gathered by intelligence. A smoking gun would mean it's too late. I mean, I guess we the US could have waited for Russia to release some fake news and then try to prove it was false. I think if that happened, this guy asking questions would then ask, "if you knew this was going to happen, why didn't you say something earlier?"

 

[theeedude]

At this point it's just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

 

[SmCaudata]

At this point it's just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

Probably some of that. I'd rate the credibility on this to be higher than the WMD claim in Iraq though. Frankly, whatever can be done to discredit Russia on the world stage makes them less likely to take action and more likely to have resistance when they do. I'd rather not see conflict so I'm all for this posturing before hostilities start. It's much more useful than talking about it after the fact.