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Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:01

RUSSIAN POISON AND RUSSIAN LIES: PUTIN'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE AND BRITAIN

Michael MacKay, Radio Lemberg, 15.03.2018 
 
Caught red-handed attacking Britain with the nerve agent Novichok, Russia is responding with a campaign of disinformation not seen since Russia was caught red-handed shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a BUK missile.
 
Russian propaganda TV (there is no other kind) is propagating numerous conspiracy theories in a disinformation campaign around Russia’s nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England. Prominent among these conspiracy theories is Ukraine. The precedent for this level of “deza” (disinformation) is the propaganda Russian TV put out after Russia’s armed forces shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a BUK missile on 14 July 2014. Now, as one of many attempted misdirections, Ukraine portrayed as a villain in the Skripal attack. Russia’s state TV had reserve Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Colonel Vladimir Koshelev proclaim: “Ukraine’s special forces did it, based on a suggestion from MI5/MI6.”  In one breath, he told lies about Ukraine and Britain – the two greatest objects of Russian fear and hatred at the moment. Other panelists on the TV program smirked at Koshelev’s preposterous ‘blame Ukraine’ accusation, but they all understood the central role Ukraine plays as a bogey-man and object of hatred to justify Russian armed aggression against its neighbour.
 
Seamus Milne is the spokesman for the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, Jeremy Corbyn.  Milne is a long-standing apologist for the Soviet Union and Russia. On 4 March 2015, three years to the day before Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal were attacked by Russian agents with a chemical weapon in Salisbury, England, Seamus Milne wrote an editorial in the Guardian called “The demonisation of Russia risks paving the way for war.” Right off the bat, Milne talks about “the rise of Ukrainian fascist militias” – and the hate propaganda against Ukrainians and in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flows on from there. Every Kremlin talking point is echoed by Milne. In response to Russia’s chemical weapons attack against Britain, Seamus Milne is amplifying the conspiracy theories that are coming from Russian propaganda TV. He speculated that stockpiles of Novichok were ‘lost track of’ in the break-up of the Soviet Union, and that Ukraine could be the source of the nerve agent attack. Milne also ruminated about CIA and MI6 involvement in the attack. Blame Ukraine, blame the United States, blame the United Kingdom – that’s his game. Seamus Milne blames anyone except Russia for an attack against a Russian man who is an enemy of the Russian president, that was made using a Russian nerve agent.
 
Many Labour Members of Parliament roundly condemned Seamus Milne. Anna Turley wrote on Twitter: “I’m afraid Seumas doesn’t speak for my Labour or British values.“ Chuka Umunna said: “Mr Milne’s comments do not represent the views of the majority of our voters, members or MPs.” Unfortunately, Labour leader Corbyn did not join his fellow MPs in standing up for Britain. While Corbyn did not join Milne in his anti-Ukraine views, he shared Milne’s refusal to condemn Russia for attacking Britain.
 
Ukrainian journalist Myroslava Gongadze reminded everyone that Russia always prototypes its attacks in Ukraine. She wrote on Twitter: “Russia is testing its tactics in Ukraine. 2018 -everybody talks about Skripal poisoning in London. Let’s not forget about the poisoning of the presidential candidate Yushchenko in Ukraine in 2004.” In an assassination attempt, Russian agents poisoned Viktor Yushchenko with a potent dioxin known at TCDD. He suffered facial disfigurement but lived. In the repeat second round of an election which Viktor Yanukovych and some Ukrainian oligarchs and Russian agents had falsified, Yushchenko became president.
 
In fact, the use of a nerve agent in Salisbury follows a well-established pattern of Russian state aggression, as Britain’s Foreign Office said succinctly on Wednesday.
 
An attack with poison, carried out in Britain on 4 March 2018 against Sergei Skripal and his daughter, was done much earlier in Ukraine, on 5 September 2004 against Viktor Yushchenko. A disinformation campaign against the facts of Russian aggression against Britain in 2018 has been done against Ukraine at least since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on 20 February 2014 and the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 by Russia on 14 July 2014.
 
Russia is at war with the West. Russia starts all its attacks against Ukraine, and then expands its attacks to other countries like the United Kingdom. Putin’s War is global war.
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