I just don’t understand the end game. “Deliberately piss on the west to force their media to cover for you… in order to… profit?”

If even the BBC are finding it hard to make up lies to cover up these actions, surely it means that they’re losing powerful friends by doing (horrific, but) embarrassing things like this. I wonder if these are the flailing end-game actions of a swimmer about to drown, or the beginning of a whole new level of terrible.