Deception has become the order of the day. The old adage is that “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”. This is called “The Illusion of Truth Effect”. It is useful for establishing and entrenching propaganda.
You don’t steal an entire country, buddy up to China, give terrorists your weapons, force your top fighters to step down, destroy your production of energy and the supply chain, open your country to invasion, and it not be a treasonous act of war on your own people.
We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know we know they are lying.
We know they know, we know they are lying.
But, they are still lying!
