In the long shadow of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Moscow has leveled accusations that Kyiv engineered a scheme to draw Britain into direct military confrontation — a claim London swiftly reframed as itself a weapon, part of Russia's deliberate campaign to splinter the international coalition sustaining Ukraine. The exchange reveals something older than this war: that the contest over truth is never separate from the contest over power. When disinformation becomes strategy, the battlefield extends into the minds of allies, and confusion itself becomes a form of conquest.