they're manufacturing consent.

Step 1. Make "Peace" summit

Step 2. Don't invite Russia

Step 3. make a bunch of outrageous claims about how the people you didn't invite are preventing peace by not attending the thing you didn't invite them to

Step 4. a bunch of people believe your bullshit and repeat it

Step 5. those people include the entire western media and military industrial complex

Step 6. this trickles down to civilian voters and they repeat it as if it were gospel

Step 7. it is now "common knowledge" that you are a small bean who wants hecking peace but the big bads just won't participate in the peace making process