Lies

 Based on the reports it looks like Russia is going to invade the Ukraine any time now.  They are apparently creating false events to convince their own people that the invasion was justified, similar to what the Nazis did before invading Poland.  It didn't convince anyone except Nazi followers in Germany.

Still, what we do know is that repeating a lie often enough works.  Despite all the evidence we see people will just believe a lie repeated often enough.  People who seem to be intelligent fall for that tactic.

Shows how little we still understand about the human psyche.  

So we will watch the invasion and know that Putin is lying about the reasons it started.  We should apply that lesson in this country.