actors playing mourners, that is dep ny national security adviser john finer speaking today with andrea mitchell here on msnbc, a truly surprising turn in the news today, when the biden administration put out this news that u.s. intelligence say they have learned of a plot by the russian government to fake something terrible in ukraine. now, as you know, russia has over 100,000 troops massed on the ukrainian border, menacing ukraine and threatening to invade for weeks now and u.s. intelligence has apparently uncovered evidence of an elaborate false flag operation that russia was apparently working on to fake some supposed atrocity to blame on the ukrainian government and justify russia invading. and as insane as that sounds, it is exactly the kind of thing russia has done in the past in ukraine. in july, 2014, a few mons after the last time putin invaded ukraine, russian state