It's absolutely an intentional metered roll out to ease the public into it. I give it two years max before they start writing about fascist elements in Ukraine (again) and wringing their hands over "nobody could have seen this coming". Minus all of us who saw it coming.

Once they got people used to that, they can just scapegoat Ukraine for everything else too. They already did for the nordstream bombing.

Considering this has happened a dozen times by now, no they won't analyze things a bit more closely.