One thing that I've seen is "preemptive whataboutism" - essentially, when Russian state media make a wild unreasonable claim, one that's not merely false but in

One thing that I've seen is "preemptive whataboutism" - essentially, when Russian state media make a wild unreasonable claim, one that's not merely false but invokes a "WTF how and why would someone even think of something like that??" feeling, then sometimes it turns out that this is something that they are planning or doing at the time, and that is why they have considered that this is a plausible thing that others might do as well and can be reasonably accused of actually doing.