reverse confirmation might be the suspicion here following the larry johnson review of the same subject;

Kremlin officials say the American president is getting bad information. They claim his reports being filtered by people who want to “draw the United States into more aggressive action against Russia” — a problem they will try to correct.

Over the last few days, President Donald Trump has been harder than usual on the Russians. On Tuesday, he said Russian leader Vladimir Putin is “playing with fire.” He posted on his Truth Social account: “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!”

These comments came days after Trump said Putin was going “absolutely CRAZY!” because he struck Kiev for “no reason whatsoever.” Russia launched a blistering attack on Ukraine over the weekend, which included heavy strikes on its Capital, killing at least a dozen civilians and injuring a lot more. In response, Trump rattled off a social media post accusing Putin of needlessly killing people in a quest to take all of Ukraine. His special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, accused Russia of violating international law with that attack.

Drone Attacks

But missing from Trump’s high-profile scoldings was any mention of the fact that Russian strikes followed almost an entire week of Ukrainian drone attacks deep within Russia. From where the Russians stand, they had 700 reasons to strike.

Trump’s seeming ignorance of this is especially interesting considering that even the mainstream media reported on it. Left-wing British newspaper The Guardian reported on Saturday that  “the [Russian] strikes followed several days of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia, including Moscow, which prompted the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, to vow retaliation.” A day earlier, on Friday, The Washington Post published an article detailing how Ukrainian drone attacks “rattled multiple Russian regions for the third consecutive day, grounding flights, disrupting internet access and stretching the country’s air defense systems thin.” The strikes reached deep into Russia, the Post reported, “disrupting day-to-day life in a jarring reminder to Russians far from the front lines that the war is not confined to the trenches.”.........more........