One of the most powerful tools the Kremlin has in its secret arsenal of Special War is provocation, what they call provokatsiya.
While Moscow cannot claim to have invented this technique, which has existed as long as there have been secret services, there’s no doubt that Russians have perfected the art and taken it to a whole new level of sophistication and deviousness. At times, it can become a strategy all on its own (not always, mind you, with edifying results).
Provokatsiya simply means taking control of your enemies in secret and encouraging them to do things that discredit them and help you. You plant your own agents provocateurs and flip legitimate activists, turning them to your side.
When you’re dealing with extremists to start with, getting them to do crazy, self-defeating things isn’t often difficult. In some cases, you simply create extremists and terrorists where they don’t exist. This is causing problems in order to solve them, and since the Tsarist period, Russian intelligence has been known to do just that.
While this isn’t a particularly nice technique, it works surprisingly well, particularly if you don’t care about bloody and messy consequences. ..."
http://20committee.com/2014/03/29/understanding-provocation/
The lies by Putinistas are shameful and disgraceful, they repeat lies with no foundation dredged up from Iranian propaganda or joke sources like Consortium news, Seymour Hersch etc.
They have to do this to keep up face for Putin, who may be the world’s richest man. Not bad for a KGB man.
O]World’s 1st trillionaire; Vladimir Putin or Jeff Bezos?
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/money/2017/08/23/worlds-1st-trillionaire;-vladimir-putin-jeff-bezos/104882540/
https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/08/24/some-moscow-schools-reportedly-plan-to-delay-start-of-term-festivals-to-avoid-clashing-with-muslim-worshippers
Some Moscow schools reportedly plan to delay start-of-term festivals to avoid clashing with Muslim worshippers
We’ve got to do this dance because Russia attacks a Christian nation in Ukraine but Russia itself may well become a Muslim nation itself.