Proposing a conspiracy theory, is it not best to present a list of seemingly unexplainable "anomalies" and a plausible objective? Sure, there are a lot of things that don't make sense with the invasion of Ukraine and shelling of its nuclear power plants. But in the end, it is reasonable, from Putin's point of view, to take over Ukraine without sanctions being imposed. Is nuclear blackmail plausible here? It is also reasonable for the Ukrainians, from the Ukrainian's point of view, to elicit as much help as they can get. Is a false flag operation plausible here? Regardless of the "fireworks", it does not seem NATO feels compelled to lift sanctions against Russia under threat or give Ukraine additional help via restricted airspace and or troops. As the sayings go... Truth in war... or Honesty in Russia...
It is interesting to note Putin did not completely take out Ukraine's air force at the beginning of the war, a fundamental opening move. Other than mostly tight cropped photos of Ukraine, there does not seem to be that much damage as far as I can tell. A burnt out armored vehicle here and there, an old wrecked helicopter, a couple of holes of varying sizes in buildings, near perfect framing of pictures involving missile strikes and a presumably unexpected explosion on a communications tower. A single bullet hole in a window with some blood on the ground to represent a successfully repelled Russian attack by armed civilians with no other casualties being mentioned. Russia with 40 miles of military hardware seemingly doing relatively little. All weird, certainly. Motivation(s) unclear. However, Global sanctions against Russia seem to have whatever game he (they) might be playing, covered. Various intelligence agencies of the major powers should know exactly what's going on in Ukraine through satellite imagery and base decisions accordingly.
Games can be fun until someone gets hurt.
