“Further, if the CIA was trying to pull one over on Moscow, they wouldn’t have preemptively warned the Russians that an attack was coming. “
Of course they would. And they didn’t, that is their cover story.
Just like Nordstream, predicted it before. It’s part of the CIA destabilization effort. BTW, ISIS was literally created, funded and supplied by the CIA to overthrow Assad.
Plausible denial. It could never be the people who provided the warning. They must be innocent!☺
It is telling the west had all these canned statements, mostly defending Ukraine, before Putin addressed Russians....
ISIL/ISIS predates the Syrian Civil war.