"Wag the dog" nghĩa là gì?

"Wag the dog" = vẫy chó -> nghĩa là đánh lạc hướng sự chú ý khỏi vụ bê bối chính trị, nhất là thông qua hành động quân sự.

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“This is not some Wag the Dog situation. To even mention the Durham probe in the same sentence as what we know, and what we can see with our own eyes in terms of the military buildup and knowing what Vladimir Putin is capable of…”

“This is just too bizarre (kỳ lạ) for words,” Franken said. “The mushroom cloud, though, is still the vision you want to think of with a tactical nuke. Nagasaki, Hiroshima, the size of those weapons was rather miniscule compared to what is capable today.” Franken is concerned about a “wag-the-dog” scenario in which Putin unleashes a nuclear weapon in Russia itself, and blames another nation for it.

Griffin has pushed back on comments made by Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, Harris Faulkner and Greg Gutfeld during appearances on their own shows. After Hannity criticized President Joe Biden on Ukraine policy, Griffin noted that every president since the fall of the Soviet Union has made mistakes there. Doocy argued on “Fox & Friends” that sanctions haven’t worked against Russia; Griffin said it was too soon to say that. When Faulkner similarly questioned whether sanctions were a sufficient step, Griffin said that sending troops to the area would have given Putin an excuse to invade. She said it was “not some wag-the-dog situation” when Gutfeld suggested on “The Five” that the Ukraine crisis had been manufactured.

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