United States Officials Admit They Are Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-04-08 at 02:52:41 )

United States Officials Admit They Are Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous United States officials, humorously titled "In a break with the past, United States is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel is not rock solid".

The officials say the Joe Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out "intelligence" about Russias plans in Ukraine that is "low-confidence" or "based more on analysis than hard evidence", or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against President Putin.

The report says that toward this end the United States government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about President Putins advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China.

-Psyops in the United States targeting the public used to be illegal, even though the way they got around it was to plant stories in the foreign press. But over the last five years beginning with Russiagate & now Ukraine, it is clear that the United States public is fair game:-Ajamu Baraka (ajamubaraka) April 6, 2022

Excerpt, emphasis mine:

It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the world: United States officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden later said it publicly. But three United States officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the United States released the information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions.

It is one of a string of examples of the Biden administrations breaking with recent precedent by deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has done so even when the intelligence was not rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance.

So they lied.

They may hold that they lied for a noble reason, but they lied.

They knowingly circulated information they had no reason to believe was true, and that lie was amplified by all the most influential media outlets in the western world.

Another example of the Joe Biden administration releasing a false narrative as part of its "information war":

Likewise, a charge that Russia had turned to China for potential military help lacked hard evidence, a European official and two United States officials said.

The United States officials said there are no indications China is considering providing weapons to Russia. The Biden administration put that out as a warning to China not to do so, they said.

On the empires claim last week that President Putin is being misled by his advisors because they are afraid of telling him the truth, NBC reports that this assessment "was not conclusive - based more on analysis than hard evidence."

I had actually made fun of this ridiculous Central Intelligence Agency press release when it was uncritically published disguised as a breaking news report by The New York Times:

Breaking News: The most influential newspaper in the English-speaking world routinely passes off CIA press releases as "Breaking News".-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 30, 2022

We had also had fun with State Department Spokesman Ned Prices bizarre February impersonation of Alex Jones, where he wrongly claimed that Russia was about to release a "false flag" video using crisis actors to justify its invasion:

United States Again Tries To Pass Off Government Assertions As Evidence

"This is the kind of evidence you can not see. The evidence is invisible."-
Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 4, 2022

Other United States government lies discussed in the NBC report were less cute:

In another disclosure, United States officials said one reason not to provide Ukraine with MiG fighter jets is that intelligence showed Russia would view the move as escalatory.

That was true, but it was also true of Stinger missiles, which the Biden administration did provide, two United States officials said, adding that the administration declassified the MiG information to bolster the argument not to provide them to Ukraine.

So the Biden administration knew it was sending weapons to Ukraine that would be perceived by a nuclear superpower as a provocative escalation, sent them anyway, and then lied about it. Cool, cool, cool.

This NBC report confirms rumors we have been hearing for months. Professional war slut Max Boot said via The Council on Foreign Relations think tank in February that the Biden administration had ushered in "a new era of info ops" with intelligence releases designed not to tell the truth but to influence President Putins decisions.

Former MI6 chief John Sawers told The Atlantic Council think tank in February that the Biden administrations "intelligence" releases were based more on a general vibe than actual intelligence, and were designed to manipulate rather than to inform.

Amazing interview with of the former MI6 chief with the Atlantic Councils B_judah (the whole gang present) where the intel goon "admits" that many western "intel leaks" media outlets are dutifully conveying are not real leaks but propaganda messages designed to undercut President Putin.-Glenn Greenwald (ggreenwald) February 17, 2022

And in case you were wondering, no, NBC did not just publish a major leak by whistleblowers within the United States government who are bravely exposing the lies of the powerful with the help of the free press.

One of the articles authors is Ken Dilanian, who in 2014 was revealed to have worked as a literal CIA asset while writing for The LA Times. If you see Mr. Dilanians name in a byline, you may be certain that you are reading exactly what the managers of the United States empire want you to read.

So why are they telling us all this now??

Is the United States government not worried that it will lose the trust of the public by admitting that it is continuously lying about its most high-profile international conflict??

And if this is an "information war" designed to "get inside President Putins head" as NBCs sources claim, would openly reporting it not through the mainstream press completely defeat the purpose?

Well, the answer to those questions is where it gets really creepy.

I welcome everyones feedback and theories on the matter, but as near as I can figure the only reason the United States government would release this story to the public is because they want the general public to know about it. And the only plausible reason I can think of that they would want the public to know about it is that they are confident the public will consent to being lied to.

To get a better sense of what I am getting at, it helps to watch the televised version of this report in which Dilanian and NBC anchor Alison Morris enthuse about how brilliant and wonderful it is that the Joe Biden administration is employing these psychological warfare tactics to mess with President Putins mind:

The message an indoctrinated NBC viewer will get when watching this segment is, "Is this not awesome?? Our president is pulling off all these cool 3D chess moves to beat President Putin, and we are kind of a part of it!"

It has been obvious for a long time that the United States empire has been working to shore up narrative control to strengthen its hegemonic domination of the planet via internet censorship, propaganda, Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation, and the normalization of the persecution of journalists.

We may now simply be at the stage of imperial narrative control where they can begin openly manufacturing the consent of the public to be lied to for their own good.

Just as the smear campaign against Julian Assange trained mainstream liberals to defend the right of their government to keep dark secrets from them, we may now be looking at the stage of narrative control advancement where mainstream liberals are trained to defend the right of their government to lie to them.

The United States is ramping up cold war aggressions against Russia and China in a desperate attempt to secure unipolar hegemony, and psychological warfare traditionally plays a major role in cold war maneuverings due to the inability to aggress in more overt ways against nuclear-armed foes.

So now would definitely be the time to get the "thinkers" of Americas two mainstream political factions fanatically cheerleading their governments psywar manipulations.

A casual glance around the internet at what mainstream liberals are saying about this NBC report shows that this is indeed what is happening.

In liberal circles there does appear to be widespread acceptance of the worlds most powerful government using the worlds most powerful media institutions to lie to the public for strategic gains.

If this continues to be accepted, it will make things a whole lot easier for the empire managers going forward.

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