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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/rpetty/status/1489366653058093056[/twitter][/quote]

Pretty funny how all the Russian trolls on twitter are so worked up by this. Even made "Matt Lee" the number one trending topic.

Want to know if the intelligence is true? That's your answer right there.  :mrgreen: [/quote]

Matt Lee is the Russians' useful idiot[/quote]

Seems as if when a journalist does his job, he becomes "Putin's puppet."

Washington Post reporter:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/feliciasonmez/status/1489321450251169798[/twitter]

One tweet in her thread:
It's the job of reporters to ask for proof to back up government statements. Doing so does not mean one believes propaganda put out by U.S. adversaries. I imagine these officials know that. Are they simply throwing out these accusations in an effort to deter further Qs?[/quote]

Matt Lee asked for proof and the State Dept spokesman responded that anything further was classified to prevent disclosure of sources and methods. And then Matt Lee persisted, knowing full well that he wasn't going to learn anything else. And he said something like "this is Alex Jones territory." He was being overly argumentative and it was kind of strange.

This time the pretext was to be a video of a fake attack by Ukraine on ethnic Russians

[quote]The plan — which the United States hopes to spoil by making public — involves staging and filming a fabricated attack by the Ukrainian military either on Russian territory or against Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine.

Russia, the officials said, intended to use the video to accuse Ukraine of genocide against Russian-speaking people. It would then use the outrage over the video to justify an attack or have separatist leaders in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine invite a Russian intervention.

Officials would not release any direct evidence of the Russian plan or specify how they learned of it, saying to do so would compromise their sources and methods. But a recent Russian disinformation campaign focused on false accusations of genocide and efforts in the Russian Parliament to recognize breakaway governments in Ukraine lent credence to the intelligence.

If carried out, the Russian operation would be an expansion of a propaganda theme that American intelligence officials and outside experts have said Moscow has been pushing on social media, on conspiracy sites and with state-controlled media since November.

The video was intended to be elaborate, officials said, with plans for graphic images of the staged, corpse-strewn aftermath of an explosion and footage of destroyed locations. They said the video was also set to include faked Ukrainian military equipment, Turkish-made drones and actors playing Russian-speaking mourners.[/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/us/politics/russia-ukraine-invasion-pretext.html?smid=tw-share[/quote]

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