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"Last week an extraordinary article appeared in, of all places, NBC News, reporting that the US intelligence community is knowingly feeding information it does not believe accurate to the US mainstream media for the American audience to consume.
"In other words, the article reports that the US 'deep state' admits to being actively engaged in lying to the American people in the hopes that it can manipulate public opinion
"According to the NBC News article, 'multiple US officials acknowledged that the US has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes it has used low-confidence intelligence for deterrent effect…'"
I'm pretty sure most Americans don't know (or care) about when the CIA first began fighting for regime change in Russia by using Ukrainian nationals (and nationalism):
"In
September, 1949, two Ukrainian agents working with the C.I.A. landed near Lviv, in what was then the Soviet Union.
"They were the vanguard of an operation that would acquire the code name Redsox. Its aim was to connect with anti-Soviet insurgents fighting by the tens of thousands in Ukraine, as well as in smaller numbers elsewhere on Russia’s rim."
The Complexities of the Ukraine Dilemma