Russia might be duping the United States and its allies in the NATO alliance through skillful deception operations involving its military, which could allow it to win the war in Ukraine.

The United States’ support of Ukraine with massive top-notch military supplies and aid, already surpassing $50 billion, has become vital to Ukrainians’ attempts to liberate their country from Russian occupation.

Yet, while the US and its Western allies are supporting Ukraine, they seem to be focusing overwhelmingly on information warfare through social media, thus entirely ignoring deception operations.

Russians have proven themselves to be good at these operations and might be massively engaging in them, reveals a report by The Gateway Pundit.

As a result, the US and the greater West failure to appreciate the importance of deception or “maskirovka,” as is the Russian term. This may allow Moscow to prevail in what could then become a total disaster for the West, warns author Larry Johnson.

In a far-reaching article delving into the long history of military deception operations, Johnson stresses that deception attempts are a much bigger challenge today in the age of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR).

Western leadership and media might be missing much of the picture of what the Russian military is doing, Johnson notes.

He’s pointing to the recent case in which Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch in charge of the Wagner mercenary army, nearly committed a coup d’etat on June 24 by setting his troops on a march to Moscow.

This was done to topple not the tyrant himself, but Russia’s unpopular Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.In this case, Western media seemed to have totally ignored what the rest of the Russian military was doing and where they were doing it.

The author concludes that since US and Western leaders and journalists fail to pay attention to Russian deception operations, NATO is left “struggling” to guess Russia’s next military move.