Instead, it's a strategy.
They are very conscious of their sins, which they consider justified either out of pure ambition or taqqiya or in many cases they are have a purely sociopathic relationship to those affected by the aims and actions.
But the point is, projection is a strategy. If you are robbing a store, get the media to accuse the store owner of embezzlement. Make it complex, interesting and tawdry ... and plausible.
Nobody is looking at what you are doing.
So it's a strategy when it comes to the leadership, and that is EXACTLY why SO OFTEN you see projection. It's not 'a common psychological phenomenon' ... it's part of the plan. Hence, you see it on almost everything they are doing.
I think you are right, probably 95% of the time it is strategy.