Russian ‘False Flag’ Ukraine Plot Wouldn’t Be Its First

Putin’s been there, done that before, to justify Chechnya war

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We have to be very careful when it comes to weighing U.S. intelligence reports on foreign threats. Remember the CIA’s “slam dunk” case for nuclear weapons in Iraq? North Vietnamese attacks on an American warship in the Tonkin Gulf?

Both false, it would turn out many thousands of deaths later.

But if it’s true that Russia has an “extremely elabora…