Putin will stage a 'false flag' attack on his OWN troops to set up a pretext to invade Ukraine after talks between the US and Russia collapsed

Daily Mail ^

[algore]

The US has intelligence that Russia is planning a 'false-flag' operation on its own forces in eastern Ukraine to create a pretext for invasion.

Officials on Friday also said they believed Russia was mounting a social media disinformation campaign to portray Ukraine as the aggressor.

The update, making the prospect of military conflict more immediate, came as Ukrainian government websites were taken offline in a 'massive' cyberattack, talks between Washington and Moscow collapsed and Russia held a combat readiness inspection of their troops.

Meanwhile, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia had 'run out of patience' with the West as Moscow demanded assurances that NATO would not expand closer to its territory.

The United States has evidence that operatives trained in urban warfare and sabotage will carry out these attacks on Russian proxy forces, officials told journalists on Friday, possibly weeks before an invasion.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki warned of human rights violations and war crimes if diplomacy failed and the Russian government went ahead with its plans.

'We have information that indicates Russia has already pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false flag operation in eastern Ukraine,' she said.

'The operatives are trained in urban warfare and using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces.'

She said it mimicked the playbook used when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula, and included social media disinformation to show Kyiv as the instigator of violence.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the intelligence was 'very credible.'

The Kremlin quickly denied it was preparing a provocation. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the reporting was based on 'unfounded' information, according to the TASS news agency.

[GraceG]

[ US Intelligence assumes Putin will do the same thing they have done so many times. ]

All these govt swamp rats can do IS TO PROJECT!

[Thunder90]

1. This is a dupe

2. Biden wants Ukraine gone because his son had connections with the former pro-Putin government there, and the current started releasing things damaging to the Biden family.

3. Russia pays Hunter better, which means that Joe’s 10% cut is bigger.

[pierrem15]

I read CIA has operations teams training Ukrainian special forces in black ops in case of invasion.

How many other agencies are doing what in Ukraine? My guess is the senile sock puppet of the Deep State and his handlers in the White House clown show have no idea.

We know now how State and DOD were lying to Trump: there's no reason to believe they're lying less to a senile old codger whom they know has no real authority. The real danger is that State will give away the farm, Putin will move and suddenly find Russian forces whacked by US special ops or weapon systems he didn't even know were in country.

Then the SHTF it will really be time for one of those Biden "I did that" stickers.

[Rusty0604]

Good one.

[MercyFlush]

“Officials on Friday also said they believed Russia was mounting a social media disinformation campaign to portray Ukraine as the aggressor.”

Indeed, plenty of pro-Putin trolls have been pounding FR hard and heavy to try to pave the way for a Russian invasion and annexation of Ukraine.

Meaning the propaganda campaign is already under way.

[Ancesthntr]

This is what happens when you have a POTUS with o mind and, even when he had one, was an unserious, modern-day Chamberlain.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

The fact that Pedo Joey is an useful idiot is perhaps the only reason that Russia hasn’t started unloading all the dirt they have on them . . . with videos. I would bet that what they have on them will make the fake Trump dossier look like a children’s story.

[353FMG]

Talks between US and Russia did not collapse.

Biden collapsed.

[pierrem15]

I doubt Blinken is going anywhere no matter what failures occur: he exemplifies the left-leaning foreign policy consesus of talking big and negotiating away everything with extensive "monitoring" or additional "negotiations" that require myriads of former State and DOD officials to act as highly paid consultants.

Every foreign power knows that US policy is for sale: it's just a matter of the price and finding the right pockets.

[skeeter]

Yep. You’d think they’d learn to be more clever about it.

[kawhill]

Greetings, if the Ukraine is a vitally important ally of the USA, then if I am in charge, 20 Ten Megaton Nukes are prepared and deployed to the Ukraine. Come and get my country Vlad., and oh by the way, Kiev, Moscow, and Leningrad no longer exist as we have known them. We reap what we sow. Sweet dreams Comrade.
Kawhill

[Skywise]

So… similar to what Biden and Obama have done to the US?