{"id":61767,"date":"2022-02-03T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61767"},"modified":"2022-02-03T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:32:19","slug":"oil-spikes-on-white-house-report-russia-planning-false-flag-against-ukraine-using-graphic-video-crisis-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61767","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spikes On White House Report Russia Planning False Flag Against Ukraine Using &#8216;Graphic Video&#8217;, Crisis Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-claims-russia-planning-false-flag-against-ukraine-using-graphic-video-crisis-actors\">Oil Spikes On White House Report Russia Planning False Flag Against Ukraine Using &#8216;Graphic Video&#8217;, Crisis Actors<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>The Washington Post is reporting Thursday bizarre and sensational claims by US intelligence saying that Russia planned to stage a false flag to justify a massive invasion of Ukraine. Specifically Russian intelligence is being accused of\u00a0<strong>producing a fake video showing a Ukrainian Bayraktar<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>TB-2 drone attacking pro-Russian separatists<\/strong>\u00a0in Ukraine&#8217;s eastern regions, which was to\u00a0<strong>&#8220;fabricate a pretext for an invasion.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oil surged as the bombshell claims against Moscow quickly grabbed world headlines, emerging as the NY Times and CNN top story by early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2022-02-03_0.png?itok=gEOUSvpJ\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2022-02-03_0.png?itok=gEOUSvpJ\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2022-02-03_0.png?itok=gEOUSvpJ\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7c82ad27-2f27-4b2e-a498-56b14d11f39f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_desktop__1kLtW AdvertisingSlot_tablet__2K3QE AdvertisingSlot_mobile__1_gOm AdvertisingSlot_placement__1gQtj AdvertisingSlot_align__32LUS\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__39vIl\" data-google-query-id=\"CMax_bi25PUCFQXuswod2IYJ5A\">\n<div class=\"ac-widget-placeholder ac-reset\" data-loaded-pid=\"zerohedgecom\" data-loaded-wid=\"0011r00002RYAhn_1419\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-player-ph-ext-f27M4oeqXSYGh5T5UU02HRKp4tosjReq\" class=\"ac-lre-player-ph-ext ac-lre-ph-playlist-hide-scroll-bar ac-lre-carousel-horizontal ac-lre-carousel-legacy\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-player-ph-f27M4oeqXSYGh5T5UU02HRKp4tosjReq\" class=\"ac-lre-player-ph ac-lre-desktop\">\n<div class=\"ac-lre-wrapper luminous-theme is-floated-outer-title\">\n<div class=\"ac-player-ph\">\n<div class=\"ac-player-wrapper ac-floated-player\">\n<div class=\"ac-lre-player\">\n<div id=\"ac-lre-vjs-f27M4oeqXSYGh5T5UU02HRKp4tosjReq\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin ac-lre-vjs-f27M4oeqXSYGh5T5UU02HRKp4tosjReq-dimensions vjs-fluid vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v7 vjs-has-started vjs-waiting vjs-layout-x-small ac-lre-small-player vjs-user-inactive vjs-playing lx-size-0\" lang=\"en-us\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">\n<div class=\"vjs-control-bar\" dir=\"ltr\"><button class=\"ac-as-button playback-speed-icon vjs-control vjs-button \" title=\"Playback Speed Settings\" type=\"button\" aria-disabled=\"false\"><\/button>The accusations are positively staggering, especially given how\u00a0<em>over the top<\/em>\u00a0the detailed claims are &#8211; all while sourced to US intelligence assertions &#8211; but\u00a0<strong>lacking completely in any specific evidence<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are the details an unnamed senior Biden admin official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/03\/politics\/us-alleges-russian-false-flag-ukraine\/index.html\">told CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A senior administration official told CNN that the US has intelligence suggesting that the Russian government, with the help of Russia&#8217;s intelligence services, has been planning to produce a propaganda video\u00a0<strong>depicting graphic scenes of a &#8220;staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0the official said. The US believes Russia has already recruited actors to be involved in the fake attack.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This video, if released, could\u00a0<strong>provide Putin the spark he needs<\/strong>\u00a0to initiate and justify military operations against Ukraine,&#8221; the official added. It follows claims last month that Russia could be plotting false flag attacks against its own proxies in Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; which was the first to report the story &#8211; alongside other like CNN has introduced some level of doubt within\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/02\/03\/us-russia-planning-to-use-faked-video-as-invasion-pretext\/\">their own reporting<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil Spikes On White House Report Russia Planning False Flag Against Ukraine Using &#8216;Graphic Video&#8217;, Crisis Actors The Washington Post is reporting Thursday bizarre and sensational claims by US intelligence saying that Russia planned to stage a false flag to justify a massive invasion of Ukraine. Specifically Russian intelligence is being accused of\u00a0producing a fake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[296,592,694,821,827,14907,862,5228,4318],"class_list":["post-61767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-false-flag","tag-oil-price","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-white-house","tag-war","tag-washington-post","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61768,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61767\/revisions\/61768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}