"Russian denials over Salisbury and Douma reveal a state uninterested in cooperating to reach a common understanding of the truth," the article's author complains on behalf of the empire he serves, "but instead using both episodes to try systematically to divide western electorates and sow doubt."
Western mass media outlets everywhere have been sounding an increasingly shrill alarm about "Russian disinformation" regarding the Salisbury Skripal poisoning and the alleged Douma gas attack in Syria, and this Guardian article by Patrick Wintour forms a new step along the same trajectory. No attempt is ever made to describe why it is so dangerous to "sow doubt" about unproven allegations long before investigations into either event have run their course. More curiously, no attempt to address Iraq is ever made.
Wintour spins a narrative about the US, UK and their tight network of allies having a complete monopoly on truth and facts, taking it as an obvious truism that the Russians could only be lying about the sudden deluge of unproven accusations the west has been piling upon them ever since late 2016. The western empire is plainly just and virtuous, so nobody questioning its assertions could be anything other than deceitful and evil. Even though this same empire lied us into a war with Iraq fifteen years ago.
Comment: Heartbreaking. And to think all this decades-long suffering has been caused by the superstitious belief that a tribal god supposedly gave the right to a certain group of people to steal the land of others.
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