Yes they can.
It's exactly what Finland said after the Soviet Union went wild over Finnish artillery shelling a Soviet position.
That wasn't us, they said. We didn't give that command.
And 60 years later the truth was told, it was Soviet agents/troops who crossed the border to fire on their own men and give an excuse for war. (Yeltsin admitted it and apologised for it)
NOW we're well into threadjack territory.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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