Wow! I never knew Australia had a Larouchist party. Far away and far behind the times...

While the USA has played an obvious, up-front role in the political and military machinations that made war inevitable, the UK government has spent most of the last decade laying the groundwork for an all-out "informational war" against Russia, by constructing a pervasive propaganda apparatus, active globally but with a special focus on Ukraine and eastern Europe, in collaboration with Britain's largest media organisations

... some of which are owned by Russian oligarchs... others slavishly follow the Conservative party, which has been funded by Russian oligarchs for decades...

It's a question of optics. These elderly conspiracy nuts imagine that Britain and its press are hugely influential.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}