Originally Posted by Bladewire

Well it's more than that:

Russian military deception, sometimes known as Maskirovka (Маскировка), is a military doctrine developed from the start of the twentieth century. The doctrine covers a broad range of measures for military deception, ranging from camouflage to denial and deception.

Deceptive measures include concealment, imitation with decoys and dummies, manoeuvres intended to deceive, denial, and disinformation.

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I think we're in the psychological deceive/disinformation arena on American sociology with Putin right now. He threw a got after his failure at the Sochi Olympics but he's over it and wants back in with the U.S. and is using his relations with Trump and the above methods to a achieve that.