What Happens When a Journalist Comes Back From the Dead
There is a word, beloved by the Kremlin and all its representatives, that has yet to cross into an American lexicon that longs for such Russian transplants: provokatsiya. Literally: a provocation. Figuratively: a false-flag operation.
The poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain? Provokatsiya!
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine? Provokatsiya!
The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential race? Provokatsiya, obviously.
Before Wednesday, it was easy to deride Kremlin cries of provokatsiya as a cynical way of directing our gaze away from the facts and past them — onto the highly improbable and the flat-out conspiratorial.… Seguir leyendo »