Sorry to bring up godwin's laws but the "false flag operation" phrase that's now become associated with conspiracy theories comes from the nazi's dressing their own soldiers up as polish soldiers and pretending to attack themselves as an excuse to attack poland.
The recent(ish) russian invasion of parts of the ukrain went with "we need to protect russian citizen in the ukraine".
The vietnam war started with the US lying about being attacked first by the vietnamese.
I could list more I'm sure if I wanted to put the time into it but it's very common for undeserved self-serving to cook up an excuse that makes it sound like they're the victims.
It's always this way honestly.
Sorry to bring up godwin's laws but the "false flag operation" phrase that's now become associated with conspiracy theories comes from the nazi's dressing their own soldiers up as polish soldiers and pretending to attack themselves as an excuse to attack poland.
The recent(ish) russian invasion of parts of the ukrain went with "we need to protect russian citizen in the ukraine".
The vietnam war started with the US lying about being attacked first by the vietnamese.
I could list more I'm sure if I wanted to put the time into it but it's very common for undeserved self-serving to cook up an excuse that makes it sound like they're the victims.