This reminds me of a month before the invasion, when Russia was making the same kinds of denials that their totally innocent forces on the border were just doing military exercises and warnings of "imminent invasion" was all a mean hoax by other countries.
I suppose this particular set of lies might mainly be for their own domestic audience.
> Forcing victims to compromise themselves is part of the strategy. Even as a lie, it demoralizes them, binds them to your organization, and isolates them from one-another. [...]
> "Bob wants to join the resistance. He says he was lying about the loyalty oath [to] the oppressors."
> "I dunno, even if Bob was always lying about that, it still makes him the kind of person who would deceive people in order to keep his job, so I'm not sure we can trust him either."
There are plenty of fascists who support russia around the world, including here on Hacker News, so this reply is targeted towards all the fascists around the globe.
Also check out the etymology of the Molotov Cocktail. While Finland was bombed by the Russians, Molotov was saying on Soviet state radio that the bombing missions over Finland were actually "airborne humanitarian food deliveries" for their "starving" neighbors.
Americans, especially some of the pro-Russian republicans should pick up a history book or two, to figure out why they're cheering for. It's a 'same shit, different assholes' type of situation, an expansionist cruel society which has evolved very little over the past centuries.