Russia accused Ukraine … “mirror imaging”: “Putin Accuses Ukraine of ‘Dirty Bomb’ Plans, Says Risks of World Conflict High,” Reuters, October 26, 2022; “Ukraine Says Russian Troops Will Fight for Key City as Proxy Government Flees,” New York Times, October 24, 2022.

XREF: Mirror imaging — accuser denouncing in the other party exactly what they themselves are doing or planning — connects to Cold War propaganda patterns and general frameworks of psychological projection in conflict rhetoric.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1364