Russia's 'assassination attempt' claim puts Putin's desperation in full view.
"I can assure you there was no involvement by the United States. Whatever it was didn’t involve us,” Kirby said in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” early Thursday. “We had nothing to do with this, so Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple.”
Why is Russia making these kooky claims? Why are they blaming the U.S.? There can really be only one reason: to rally more Russian support for the war. That Putin is OK with such unhinged accusations being made by his team says a lot about how desperate he has become, how much he needs to invent new arguments to rally the public’s support for the country’s war on Ukraine.
Of course, this is not the first time that Putin and propagandists have twisted reality to generate public support for Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The biggest myth they’ve pushed is that Russian soldiers are carrying out their “special military operation” to rid Ukraine of the Nazi regime oppressing the Ukrainian people.That myth includes the fiction that Russians living in eastern Ukraine needed to be liberated from Kyiv’s repressive fascist dictatorship. President Zelenskyy is Jewish.
A second notable lie is that the United States and NATO aim to destroy Russia and Russians. That falsehood was recently given voice by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who said that “.” Yet a third lie is that Russian critics of the war are terrorists and agents of the West. Russian officials have also been lying about how their military is faring in Ukraine.
Despite the mystery that continues to surround it, the most important aspect of the story of the drones that crashed into the Kremlin is not who flew them. The most important aspect is how the Kremlin has decided to describe this event.
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