Why Don't They Just Apologise For Their Incompetence?

Rather than trying to start a war to distract from it.

https://us.cnn.com/2022/01/24/europe/nato-deployment-eastern-europe-ukraine-intl/index.html

You really don't have to spend long on the Internet. Or speak Russian.

To see that is the US/UK led NATO nations who are preparing their publics for war. A war they're clearly desperate to start.

While Russia really isn't.