As I remember it, almost every single FBI expose over the past several decades has been the result of undercover agents promoting or inciting some members of a group to commit some sort of action... Every group of humans always has a few who are far more susceptible to manipulation than others...
Few FBI headline operations have been the result of good "detective" work to solve a crime committed or an independently (free of FBI influence) developed plan stuck to the blackboard...
This operation is just another communist deep-state attack...
Maybe Russia and China need to arrest those groups of DOD planners who are always developing or updating plans for attacking China or Russia... After all, a "plot" is a "plot"...
Won't even mention the groups who plan and commit riots, chaos, and destruction across the Nation...
Back in the 90's, almost every time I rolled out of a gun show with 6-8 cases of ammo on a cart, there would be some guy who would come up to me while I was loading the truck... It always led to this approximate manipulation sequence:
The problem is every group has 'low hanging fruit' who are easy to identify and exploit.
They have no idea they're being set-up.