US propaganda: “Russian airlines are unreliable and are making some questionable maintenance decisions.”
IE: Russian airlines can't even afford/acquire new brakes -> sanctions are working and their economy is crumbling -> the war will soon be over and Putin will be lose power.
Both methods take a tiny kernel of truth and spin it to be much more meaningful than what it is, but allowing the reader to make the final connection is much more inception-like and thus much more effective.
https://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/what-russians-think-when...