What makes you think one op cannot be disguised in another?  The people acting on these issues are not like you and me. For us, most things if not all, are really straight forward in an either/ or situation. They grey area is reasonably small. You need a certain twist in your brain. This is about appearances, manipulation, entrapment, etc.  Even Q said, not all they were doing would be clean. War is dirty. It necessitates disguise. Information, being a piece of data or an act, may be true or fake. If fake, then it still can be true, as it value is in the reason why the fake was done. This is the world of shadows.  Then there is another, may be even disquieting thought: if you wanne win, you want to win with full spectrum domination. It means you will time each and any piece of data, so it works to your advantage. If you want your enemy to fall, you want to have them fall from as high up as you can manipulate them, in the nick of time.  Consider a tennis match. If the opponent is too strong from the get go, it simply is game set match. But a more enticing and entertaining match is one where the tension regarding a win is in play.  I play this game while playing tennis. It is fun. Especially, when I play against opponents who claim to be people not having a problem with losing..... hahaha, you should see their frustration. And the more frustrated they get, the more mistakes they make, the easier the game gets. But ... the game must be played, till the arbiter declares: game, set, match.  A tennis match is just small stuff, compared to what Q+ is doing.  As towards LV: people react to noise (sound of shots) and what they see: the appearance of wounds .... Another thought: what if there was a mix: one or two were actually wounded, surrounded by crisis actors to provoke an effect? How do you escape best? When things are orderly? Or when things are in disarray and panic?  What happens when one op goes south? How do you stop-gap that? How do you tie off?  When an operator turns out to be a [C]lown, which side is he on? Does he even know which side was manipulating him? What was the op really about?  I have many questions, and suspicious as to any official narrative, because there are too many pieces not fitting in place.