A serious problem is now occurring within the Russian senior leadership and inside the Russian FM---when you spin up a massive propaganda or disinformation campaign and then you yourself start believing you own propaganda and disinformation then you are in serious trouble and it becomes more and more difficult to recognize "actual reality" and that is dangerous.

This is actual a single point of failure or COG point inside the Russian UW strategy--never believe your own propaganda.

It then becomes virtually impossible to actually conduct diplomacy as the Russian side is so fixated on the disinformation ---ie Debaltseve--Putin kept on stating over and over during Minsk 2 that it had been taken and the UA had to lay down their weapons thus the 70 hour long wait to implement the ceasefire--Merkel virtually gave up attempting to show him he was wrong.

Today from the chambers of Russian “altered state of reality”: It is extremely striking just how Russian FM members bash the Ukraine for not implementing Minsk 1 and 2 but Russia has not implemented a single point in the two agreements-not a single point.

Russians at NATO @natomission_ru
A.Grushko: Russia will remain a global actor. Our eagerness and openness to dialogue is there. In… http://twishort.com/h9Hhc

Russians at NATO @natomission_ru
A.Grushko: The main task today is to settle the crisis in Ukraine, to start implementing the polit… http://twishort.com/f9Hhc



Notice how it “is the fault of others—Russia did nothing wrong”???????? And this after a barrage against the West strating with Crimea “that is all about the NATO humiliation of Russia”---that broken record has not been replayed for a number of months now”. The recently leaked document from yesterday definitely killed that Russian myth.

Russians at NATO @natomission_ru
A.Grushko: Russia has never walked out of cooperation with NATO. On April 1, 2014, NATO decided to… http://twishort.com/e9Hhc

Russians at NATO @natomission_ru
A.Grushko: NATO is concentrating on non-existent threats based on false perceptions of security th… http://twishort.com/d9Hhc

Now he goes off the deep end on disinformation—again ignoring Russian acitvities mentioned in yesterday’s leaked document:

Russians at NATO @natomission_ru
A.Grushko: The Ukrainian crisis was not a result of the Russian policy, but a consequence of the a… http://twishort.com/Z8Hhc

And off the deep end again with this rehashed old myth—even Gorbi from that period openly stated months ago the West had never given such assurances---the only thing anchored was in the 2+4 treaties concerning the reunification of Germany.

A.Grushko: Assurances that NATO would not expand eastward—which had been given to the leadership o… http://twishort.com/Y8Hhc