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The Kremlin's False Flag Operation
The images are such a potent symbol of Russia's vulnerability. I sort of don't buy the suggestion that this was some kind of way of justifying a more virulent attack by the Russians. The theory has been explained to me is that, you know, well, it's not necessarily the Russian audience that the Kremlin are playing to. It's countries of the global south. And so the false flag, if it is that, would be aimed at sort of smoothing the way creating political justification for military action against Ukraine.