“Attack on Valdai”: How Russian Propaganda Rewrote Physics for One Purpose

The story about the “vile attack of the Kyiv regime on Putin’s residence” is important not for its details, but for the question behind it. Will Donald Trump fall for it? Everything else is noise intended for internal consumption.

To understand the scale of the absurdity, you don’t need to be the President of the United States or a military expert. Basic logic is enough. The Russian version suggests that at the moment when Ukrainian drones were allegedly over the Bryansk region, the Russian military already knew for sure: the final target was Valdai.

A simple question arises. Since when has Russia learned to “read” the flight missions of foreign UAVs in real time?

If this is true, then we are talking about a technological breakthrough of planetary scale. This is no longer just electronic warfare, but a discovery on the level of “the invention of the wheel” or “gunpowder.” New physics, new laws, new possibilities. But for some reason, there is not a single confirmation, except for statements from propagandists.

Some commentators have found an “explanation” that they themselves consider logical. They say drones fly in a straight line. Take a ruler, draw a line — and there it is, neatly passing through Valdai. True, along the way there are also the Smolensk and Tver regions, where there are more than enough targets. But who cares about such trifles when it comes to “state terrorism” and “assassination attempts”?

The detail that drones do not fly in a straight line is superfluous in this worldview. As are any technical nuances. They only interfere with the beautiful version.

The numbers don’t add up.
The timing doesn’t add up.
Even the basic facts don’t add up.

But this, as they say, is not the point. Such things have long been ignored in Russian propaganda. It is also symptomatic who was entrusted to voice this story. Sergey Lavrov increasingly acts not as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but as a replacement for the Ministry of Defense’s press service — with the same set of theses and the same level of credibility.

In fact, the question of “why all this” doesn’t even require an answer. It is obvious. It is necessary to disrupt any negotiations and come up with a formal reason to continue the war, presenting it as a “forced” and “legitimate” measure.

That is why the key is not Valdai, not the drones, and not even another portion of absurdity. The main question remains the same: will Trump believe it — or at least pretend to believe it?

How information falsifications turn into a tool of big politics and an attempt to manage external decisions is closely monitored by NAnews — News of Israel | Nikk.Agency.