The week that has just ended was exceptionally rich in events. But no media
were able to report it, because they had all deliberately
masked certain of their number in order to protect the story that was being
woven by their government. London had attempted to provoke a major conflict,
but lost to Russia, President Trump and Syria.
The British government and certain of its allies, including US Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson, have attempted to launch a Cold War against Russia.
Their plan was to fabricate an attack against an ex-double agent in
Salisbury and at the same time a chemical attack against the « moderate rebels
» in the Ghouta. The conspirators’ intention was to profit from the efforts of
Syria to liberate the suburbs of its capital city and the disorganisation of
Russia on the occasion of its Presidential election. Had these manipulations
worked, the United Kingdom would have pushed the USA to bomb Damascus,
including the Presidential palace, and demand that the United Nations General
Assembly exclude Russia from the Security Council.
However, the Syrian and Russian Intelligence Services got wind of what was
being plotted. They realised that the US agents in the Ghouta who were
preparing an attack against the Ghouta were not working for the Pentagon, but
for another US agency.
In Damascus, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Fayçal Miqdad, set up
an emergency Press conference for 10 March, in order to alert his fellow
citizens. From its own side, Moscow had first of all tried to contact
Washington via the diplomatic channels. But aware that the US ambassador, Jon
Huntsman Jr, is the director of Caterpillar, the company which had supplied
tunneling materials to the jihadists so that they could build their
fortifications, Moscow decided to bypass the usual diplomatic channels.
Here’s how things played out:
12 March 2018
The Syrian army seized two chemical weapons laboratories, the first on 12
March in Aftris, and the second on the following day in Chifonya. Meanwhile,
Russian diplomats pushed the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW) to get involved in the criminal investigation in Salisbury.
In the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Theresa May violently
accused Russia of having ordered the attack in Salisbury. According to her, the
ex-double agent Sergueï Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a military
nerve gas of a type « developed by Russia » under the name of « Novitchok ».
Since the Kremlin considers Russian citizens who have defected as legitimate
targets, it is therefore highly likely that they ordered the crime.
« Novitchok » is known by what has been revealed by two Soviet
personalities, Lev Fyodorov and Vil Mirzayanov. The scientist Fyodorov
published an article in the Russian weekly Top Secret (Совершенно
секретно) in July 1992, warning about the extremely dangerous nature of this
product, and warning against the use of old Soviet weaponry by the Western
powers to destroy the environment in Russia and make it unlivable. In October
1992, he published a second article in the News of Moscow (Московские
новости) with a counter-espionage executive, Mirzayanov, denouncing the
corruption of certain generals and the traffic of « Novitchok » in which they
were involved. However, they did not know to whom they may have sold the
product. Mirzayanov was first of all arrested for high treason, then released.
Fyodorov died in Russia last August, but Mirzayanov is living in exile in the
United States, where he collaborates with the Department of Defense.
Russian ex-counter intelligence officer Vil
Mirzayanov defected to the United States. Now 83 years old, he comments on the
Skripal affair from Boston.
« Novitchok » was fabricated in a Soviet laboratory in Nurus, in what is
now Uzbekistan. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was destroyed by
a US team of specialists. Uzbekistan and the United States, by necessity, have
therefore possessed and studied samples of this substance. They are both
capable of producing it.
British Minister for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson summoned the Russian
ambassador in London, Alexandre Iakovenko. He gave him an ultimatum of 36 hours
to check if any « Novitchok » was missing from their stocks. The ambassador
replied that none was missing, because Russia had destroyed all of the chemical
weapons it had inherited from the Soviet Union, as witnessed by the OPCW, which
had drawn up a certified report.
After a telephone discussion with Boris Johnson, US Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson in turn condemned Russia for the attack in Salisbury.
Meanwhile, a debate was under way at the UN Security Council concerning the
situation in the Ghouta. The permanent representative for the US, Nikki Haley,
declared – « About one year ago, after the sarin gas attack perpetrated in Khan
Cheïkhoun by the Syrian régime, the United States warned the Council. We said
that faced with the systematic inaction of the international community, states
are sometimes obliged to act on their own. The Security Council did not react,
and the United States bombed the air base from which al Assad had launched his chemical
attack. We are reiterating the same warning today ».
The Russian Intelligence Services handed out documents from the US staff.
They showed that the Pentagon was ready to bomb the Presidential palace and the
Syrian Ministries, on the model of what it had done during the taking of
Baghdad (3 to 12 April 2003).
Commenting the declaration by Nikki Haley, the Russian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, who had always called the attack in Khan Cheïkhoun a « Western
manipulation », revealed that the false information which had led the White
House into error and triggered the bombing of the Al-Chaayrate air base, had in
fact come from a British laboratory which had never revealed how it came to
possess its samples.
13 March 2018
The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs published a Press release
condemning a possible US military intervention, and announcing that if Russian
citizens were harmed in Damascus, Moscow would riposte proportionally, since
the Russian President is constitutionally responsible for the security of his
fellow citizens.
Bypassing the official diplomatic channels, Russian Chief of Staff General
Valeri Guerassimov contacted his US counterpart General Joseph Dunford to
inform him of his fear of a false flag chemical attack in Ghouta. Dunford took
this information very seriously and alerted US Defense Secretary General Jim
Mattis, who referred the matter to President Donald Trump. In view of the
Russian insistence that this piece of foul play was being prepared without the
knowledge of the Pentagon, the White House asked the Director of the CIA, Mike
Pompeo, to identify those responsible for the conspiracy.
We do not know the result of this internal enquiry, but President Trump
acquired the conviction that his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was implicated.
The Secretary of State was immediately asked to interrupt his official journey
in Africa and return to Washington.
Theresa May wrote to the General Secretary of the United Nations accusing
Russia of having ordered the attack in Salisbury, and convened an emergency
meeting of the Security Council. Without waiting, she expelled 23 Russian
diplomats.
At the request of President of the House of Commons Interior Committee
Yvette Cooper, British Secretary for the Interior Amber Rudd announced that MI5
(Military Interior Secret Services ) is going to re-open 14 enquiries into
deaths which, according to US sources, were ordered by the Kremlin.
By doing do, the British government adopted the theories of Professor Amy
Knight. On 22 January 2018, this US Sovietologist published a very strange book
– Orders to Kill – the Putin régime and political murder. The
author, who is « the » specialist on the ex-KGB, attempts to demonstrate that
Vladimir Putin is a serial killer responsible for dozens of political assassinations,
from the terrorist attacks in Moscow in 1999 to the attack on the Boston
Marathon in 2013, by way of the execution of Alexandre Litvinenko in London in
2006 or that of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow in 2015. However, she admits herself
that there is absolutely no proof of her accusations.
The European Liberals then joined the fray. Ex-Prime Minister of Belgium
Guy Verhofstadt, who presides their group in the European Parliament, called on
the European Union to adopt sanctions against Russia. His counterpart at the
head of their British party, Sir Vince Cable, proposed a European boycott of
the World Football Cup. And already, Buckingham Palace announced that the royal
family has canceled their trip to Russia.
The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, announced that it might ban the
channel Russia Today as a retaliatory measure, even though RT
has on no occasion violated British law.
The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs summoned the British ambassador in
Moscow to inform him that reciprocal measures would soon be indicated in
retaliation for the expulsion of Russian diplomats from London.
President Trump announced on Twitter that he had fired his Secretary of
State, with whom he had not yet been in contact. He was replaced by Mike
Pompeo, ex-Director of the CIA, who, the night before, had confirmed the
authenticity of the Russian information transmitted by General Dunford. On his
arrival in Washington, Tillerson obtained confirmation of his dismissal from
White House General Secretary General John Kelly.
Ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a product of the Texan middle class.
He and his family worked for the US Scouts, of whom he became the National
President (2010-12). Culturally close to England, he did not hesitate, when he
became President of the mega-multinational Exxon-Mobil (2006-16), not only to
wage a politically correct campaign favouring the acceptance of young gays into
the Scouts, but also to recruit mercenaries in British Guiana. He is said to be
a member of the Pilgrims Society, the most prestigious of Anglo-US clubs,
presided by Queen Elizabeth II, a number of whose members were part of the
Obama administration.
During his functions as Secretary of State, the quality of his education
provided a bond for Donald Trump, considered by US high society to be a
buffoon. He was in disagreement with his President on three major subjects
which allow us to define the ideology of the conspirators –
Like
London and the US deep state, he thought it would be useful to diabolise Russia
in order to consolidate the power of the Anglo-Saxons in the Western camp ;
Like
London, he thought that in order to maintain Western colonialism in the Middle
East, it was necessary to favour Iranian President Cheikh Rohani against the
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei. He therefore
supported the 5+1 agreement.
Like
the US deep state, he considered that the swing of North Korea towards the
United States should remain secret, and be used to justify a military
deployment which would be directed in reality against the People’s Republic of
China. He was therefore in favour of official talks with Pyongyang, but opposed
to a meeting between the two heads of state.
Like
London and the US deep state, he thought it would be useful to diabolise Russia
in order to consolidate the power of the Anglo-Saxons in the Western camp ; Like
London, he thought that in order to maintain Western colonialism in the Middle
East, it was necessary to favour Iranian President Cheikh Rohani against the
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei. He therefore
supported the 5+1 agreement. Like
the US deep state, he considered that the swing of North Korea towards the
United States should remain secret, and be used to justify a military
deployment which would be directed in reality against the People’s Republic of
China. He was therefore in favour of official talks with Pyongyang, but opposed
to a meeting between the two heads of state.
14 March 2018
While Washington was still in shock, Theresa May spoke once again before
the House of Commons to develop her accusation, while all around the world,
British diplomats spoke to numerous inter-governmental organisations in order
to broadcast the message. Responding to the Prime Minister, Blairist deputy
Chris Leslie qualified Russia as a rogue state and demanded its suspension from
the UN Security Council. Theresa May agreed to examine the question, but
stressed that the outcome could only be decided by the General Assembly in
order to avoid the Russian veto.
The North Atlantic Council (NATO) met in Brussels at the request of the
United Kingdom. The 29 member states drew a link between the use of chemical
weapons in Syria and the attack in Salisbury. They then decided that Russia was
« probably » responsible for these two events.
In New York, the permanent representative of Russia, Vasily Nebenzya, proposed
to the members of the Security Council that they adopt a declaration attesting
to their common will to shed light on the attack in Salisbury and handing over
the enquiry to the OPCW in the respect of international procedures. But the
United Kingdom refused any text which did not contain the expression that
Russia was « probably responsible » for the attack.
During the public debate which followed, UK chargé d’affaire Jonathan Allen
represented his country. He is an agent of MI6 who created the British War
Propaganda Service and gives active support to the jihadists in Syria. He
declared – « Russia has already interfered in the affairs of other countries,
Russia has already violated international law in Ukraine, Russia has contempt
for civilian life, as witnessed by the attack on a commercial aircraft over
Ukraine by Russian mercenaries, Russia protects the use of chemical weapons by
Assad (…) The Russian state is responsible for this attempted murder ». The
permanent representative for France, François Delattre, who, by virtue of a
derogation by President Sarkozy, was trained at the US State Department, noted
that his country had launched an initiative to end the impunity of those who
use chemical weapons. He implied that the initiative, originally directed at
Syria, could also be turned against Russia.
Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya pointed out that the session had been
convened at London’s request, but that it is public at Moscow’s request. He
observed that the United Kingdom is violating international law by treating
this subject at the Security Council while keeping the OPCW out of its enquiry.
He noted that if London had been able to identify the « Novotchik », it’s
because it has the formula and can therefore make its own. He noted Russia’s desire
to collaborate with the OPCW in the respect for international procedures.
15 March 2018
The United Kingdom published a common declaration which had been consigned
the night before by France and Germany, as well as Rex Tillerson, who at that
moment was still US Secretary of State. The text reiterated British suspicions.
It denounced the use of « a neurotoxic agent of military quality, and of a type
developed by Russia », and affirmed that it was « highly probable that Russia
is responsible for the attack ».
The Washington Post published an op-ed piece by Boris
Johnson, while the US Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, established
new sanctions against Russia. These are not connected to the current affair,
but to allegations of interference in US public life. The decree nonetheless
mentions the attack in Salisbury as proof of the underhand methods of Russia.
British Secretary for Defence, the young Gavin Williamson, declared that
after the expulsion of its diplomats, Russia should « shut up and go away »
(sic). This is the first time since the end of the Second World War that a
representative of a permanent member state of the Security Council has employed
such a vocabulary in the face of another member of the Council. Sergueï Lavrov
commented – « He’s a charming young man. He must want to ensure his place in
History, by making shock declarations […] Perhaps he lacks education ».
Conclusion
In the space of four days, the United Kingdom and its allies have laid the
premises of a new division of the world, a Cold War.
However, Syria is not Iraq and the UNO is not the G8 (from which Russia has
been excluded because of its adhesion to Crimea and its support of Syria). The
United States are not going to destroy Damascus, and Russia will not be
excluded from the Security Council. After having resigned from the European
Union, then having refused to sign the Chinese declaration about the Silk Road,
the United Kingdom thought to improve its stature by eliminating a competitor.
By this piece of dirty work, it imagined that it would acquire a new dimension
and become the « Global Britain » announced by Madame May. But it is destroying
its own credibility.
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