The Latest Blue Team Crisis Fodder: TH' ROOSKIES R COMIN'!!!

Could be.

OTOH: we know the blue team is a bunch of hysteriacs who use fake and exaggerated crises to achieve their political ends. So...

The red  team did the same thing with WMDs in eye-rack. They're not above it. And they rely on the same crappy intelligence agencies that the blue team relies on...

But the blue team is a bunch of hysteriacs, and their addiction to and manipulation of crises is a matter of high principle--a feature not a bug.

Sure. Of course. Vlad ain't no nice guy. The Rooskies may, indeed, be coming. To, y'know, Ukraine...

But you've gotta be pretty credulous to believe anything the blue team says anymore.

And we've got particular evidence in this case that they're so desperate for the appearance of a win that they're exaggerating specifically in order to be able to claim victory when it doesn't happen.