Here is another idea: the point of Russia invading Ukraine is to DESTROY RUSSIA.
What if our Deep State fed Russia disinformation both about our biological warfare labs and INTENTIONS, as well as with respect to Ukrainian capabilities?
Specifically, what if they led Putin to believe a large scale biowarfare attack was on the horizon, on the one hand, and that the Ukrainians would give up immediately on the the other?
You KNOW we have been feeding a steady stream of SigInt to the Ukrainians, but we have also presumably been buying air time for them everywhere.
The Russians cannot communicate a move using any form of electronic anything without us, and then the Ukrainians, knowing about it immediately. The NSA and allied agencies can be assumed to be all in. We are the best in the world at that sort of thing.
What labs may have existed could EASILY have been cleared out and cleansed long before they were occupied. This was the opposite of Blitzkrieg.
What if tricking Putin into destroying the ruble and the Russian economy was a more clever alternative to waging war directly with him?
The people running all this don’t give a flying fuck about anyone’s life anywhere, other than their own, and perhaps those of a few individual allies.