"Either this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country. Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others."The British government's line has been chorused uncritically by the entire global press corps, with little scrutiny of its plausibility.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - 12:44 PM - 13 Mar 2018According to the anti Russian propagandists (vid) Tillerson got the job because Trump loves Russia and Tillerson was in good standing with Putin. The same people now claim that Tillerson was fired from his job because Trump loves Russia and Tillerson was not in good standing with Putin.
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!
Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world-leading experts at Porton Down, our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so, Russia's record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations, and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations, the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal....
Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country. Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others...
[I]t is absurd to conclude that it is "highly likely" that Russia was responsible.The head of the FSB has injected some logic into this nonsense by pointing out the obvious - that the UK intelligence may be complicit in this whole sordid affair. Sergei Lavrov has also responded by saying Russia won't respond May's absurd ultimatum until evidence of chemical samples have been received by Moscow.
The real likeliness for that is just as high as the likeliness that Saddam could hit the UK with a chemical weapon missile within 45 minutes. That was a fraudulent claim another British government once made.
May's claims today are just as believable as the all nonsense Tony Blair said about Saddam.
Way more likely is an involvement of Skripal in the Steele dossier and the CIA/MI6 operation against Donald Trump. Was he assailed because he threatened to talk about it?
Theresa May, Prime Minister - appears to have concluded the investigationAnyone with two firing neurons will recognize the above statements as purely propaganda aimed at demonizing Russia with no basis in reality. But that doesn't stop politicians from opening their mouth and letting lies spew out. See our SOTT Focus editorials:
"There are only two plausible explanations for what happened in Salisbury on March 4. Either this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country. Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others."
Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative MP - a subtle reference to appeasing Adolf Hitler
"Russia is as close to being a rogue state as any. It occupies Crimea, it has helped occupy eastern Ukraine, it has created a hell on earth in Syria and is, even now, overseeing worse action. This is a country locking up its members of the opposition. We've learnt this lesson before, if we appease a country like this, then we [can] expect even worse."
Chris Bryant, Labour MP - used terrorist attacks against Russia as evidence of Putin's bloodlust
"I don't suppose there's a single member of this house ... that is surprised President Putin would resort to violence because he's done it so many times before. 334 killed in Beslan massacre, 170 killed unnecessarily in the Moscow theatre siege, 299 killed in the M17 airplane that was brought down by the Russians. Countless journalists, countless people who've stood up to him as political opponents in other countries around the world, murdered by him, and yes, Sergei Magnitsky."
Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MP - begged NATO and the soon-to-be-abandoned EU to step in
"This, if not an act of war, was certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation and this is not the first we've seen... Now is the time to call on our allies, to call on the EU which has worked with us so well on sanctions, on NATO and particularly on the US, to ask what they will do to assist us when we are in need?"
Rupa Huq, Labour MP - if the time for Bond clichés is not now, then when?
"Business cannot go on as usual. Can the Prime Minister take this opportunity to tighten the loopholes that do exist in the system, concerning money laundering, so that From Russia with Cash, doesn't turn into From Russia with Blood?"
Comment: US establishment which had spent millions of tax dollars in investigating Trump over "Russian Collusion" fiction has no problem in using Hollywood or fake humanitarian organization called White Helmet. See also: