US officials admit they're literally just lying to the public about Russia

Posted by freedomforall 2 years ago to Politics
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After the 2020 election theft, lying from the federal government should be expected, not surprising.

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"NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously titled “In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn’t rock solid“.

The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out “intelligence” about Russia’s plans in Ukraine that is “low-confidence” or “based more on analysis than hard evidence”, or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin.

The report says that toward this end the US government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about Putin’s advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China."
SOURCE URL: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/07/us-officials-admit-theyre-literally-just-lying-to-the-public-about-russia/


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  • Posted by 2 years ago
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    "So why are they telling us all this now? Is the US government not worried that it will lose the trust of the public by admitting that it is continuously lying about its most high-profile international conflict? And if this is an “information war” designed to “get inside Putin’s head” as NBC’s sources claim, wouldn’t openly reporting it through the mainstream press completely defeat the purpose?

    Well, the answer to those questions is where it gets really creepy. I welcome everyone’s feedback and theories on the matter, but as near as I can figure the only reason the US government would release this story to the public is because they want the general public to know about it. And the only plausible reason I can think of that they would want the public to know about it is that they are confident the public will consent to being lied to."
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    • Posted by TheRealBill 2 years ago
      I think the way can be explained using their framing. They are trying to justify it as a means to prevent that which they lied about. They know they're unable to keep the lid on it at this point, so they think if they can convince us "the ends justify the means" it doesn't become a liability this fall.

      But looking deeper, I suspect they plan to make the media the scapegoat. I can see it now "Peter, we never said this was true, just that this was what we were being told - and we don't control how the media reports things as you know." The media is starting to turn a bit and we know how these ideologues react to such things - blaming the person turning away.

      We've already seen the administration blaming the media for things they said and wanted the media to push, making essentially the claim I imagined above.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 2 years ago
    There are no bioweapon labs in Ukraine. Oops
    Victoria Nuland to Congress we are very concerned about Russia accessing dangerous pathogens from our bioresearch facilities.
    Then the news comes out that the Pentagon spends $200 million on biolabs in Ukraine and Putin is bad. Next Hunter Biden’s Rosemount Seneca partners works with bio company and gets darpa to help fund them for work in Ukraine. Wow from no biolabs to that.
    There are not Neo Nazi’s in Ukraine ,Zelenskyy is a Jew, ofcourse he wouldn’t have NAZIS.oops
    Claim: “Putin has the gall to say he’s ‘de-Nazifying’ Ukraine. It’s a lie."
    Claimed by: Joe Biden
    Fact check by FactCheck.org: Experts Agree

    2 days ago — Azov began as a military infantry unit made up of civilian volunteers drawn from far-right, neo-Nazi groups that were active in Ukraine,
    Founded and funded by Oleg Kolomoiskyy who through his Privatbank owns BURISMA.
    Ok but Putin is bad.
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