Pentagon spokesman Kirby pressed on Russian false flag intel, ISIS comeback
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"America's Newsroom" co-host Bill Hemmer pressed Pentagon spokesman John Kirby Friday on intelligence pointing to a Russian false flag operation that would serve as a pretext for invading Ukraine.
"I don't know that there's been a video produced yet, if that's what you mean, but we certainly have intelligence that indicates that this is something they're thinking about doing. I don't know that they've actually created it yet, but we know that they're thinking about doing it as just one of the other things that we know they're trying to do to create a pretext for an invasion," Kirby responded.
The United States has intelligence that Russia is likely to "fabricate" a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon said Thursday. The Washington Post on Thursday morning first reported that Russia has developed a plan to create a pretext for a Ukraine invasion by falsely pinning an attack on Ukrainian forces. The U.S. believes "Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video" to serve as justification to move forces into Ukraine.
Co-host Dana Perino then questioned Kirby on the proximity of Russia’s military buildup in Ukraine to the U.S.’s turbulent withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"Is there a connection there, that Putin made a calculation seeing how we left in Afghanistan and his thinking about how the U.S. might respond...
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