USA RUSSIA MASS HYSTERIA JUMPS POND INFECTS UK

USA RUSSIA-MASS-HYSTERIA—JUMPS POND—INFECTS THE UK

A FALSE FLAG ATTACK?

US  leaders are in quandary—they want us to be frightened of  “super wise and evil ” Mr. Putin—but also believe he is stupid enough to leave his name on the Salisbury UK poison victims. . 

On March 3, 2018, former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found comatose on a Salisbury park bench in the UK.  They were helped by a passing police officer and first responders who moved them to a hospital.  There it was discovered that the Skripals had been poisoned  with a military grade nerve agent called  Novichok (“newcomer” in Russian).  The British citizens who came in contact with the Skripals were contaminated as well. The Skripals remain in comas. The  police officer is in stable but critical condition.  

Skripal was jailed in Russia in 2006 for selling state secrets to British intelligence officers, but was released in 2010 as part of a high profile spy-swap between Russia and the UK. He moved to the UK where he was supposedly living in retirement. 

We know that the nerve agent Novichok was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1980s in designated chemical weapons plants in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.   Kazakhstan, was a major center for Soviet era chemical weapons development and  is, at present, cooperating with USA agents who are engaged there to clean up the site under an international grant.  So both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and other cooperating nations, as well as elements of the US government had access to samples of this weapon prior to the March 3rd attack in Salisbury in the UK. 

British Prime Minister Theresa May, stated that the poisoning of the former Russian spy, Mr. Skripal and his 33 year old daughter, was an assault on UK sovereignty and a violation of the Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty of 1993. She stated that “either Russia was directly involved, or it had lost control of a chemical weapon.”  President Trump when asked “did the Russians do it” responded with: “It looks like it.”  There seems to be no proof that Russia was involved. 

However, in  retaliation for the attack, which was attributed to the Russians (with only circumstantial evidence), British PM May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats, claiming they were involved in espionage, and also suspending  all high level meetings between British and Russian individuals.  

The Russians have denied they had anything to do with the attempted assassination.  Foreign Minister Lavrov stated that the allegations were “boorish and unfounded”.    Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that Russia had ceased weapons development after joining the Chemical Weapons Convention Ban  in 1993.  Immediately after that date they began to destroy their chemical weapons stockpiles as per the convention and have completed that process, as per the Treaty agreement.  He reiterated that Russia has not developed the nerve gas Novichok and claimed the pretext for the US and British claim that Russia was responsible was an effort to delay the US final destruction of its own (US) chemical weapons stockpiles which the USA has not completed as of this date.  The US states that it will have completed its destruction by 2023.  

Nations which could have had small stocks of this chemical weapon, aside from Russia are: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,  as well as the USA which is presently aiding Kazakhstan to “clean up” the stockpile of chemical weapons in that nation.  The Russians have requested a sample of the poison used so as to help identify its source..but the British have not complied. 

If the Russians wanted to assassinate Skripal they had better opportunities while he was in their custody.  If they had reason to “take him out” later on, while he lived in the UK,.why would they use Novichok—a well-known USSR military grade weapon, which would immediately lead investigators to Russia?  Furthermore, Novichock is claimed to be tens of times more virulent than other known poisons..The fact that the Skripals are still alive and will probably survive suggests that the dosage used was sub lethal.   Why?   The facts around the poisoning seems uncharacteristically dumb, for Putin who the same USA-hysterically-anti-Russian folks want to attribute to Putin the characteristics of an evil genius and super spy.  According to the the anti- Putin crowd—the Russian leader has unimaginable powers to destabilize nations, control multi state USA election processes, and muster unknown cyber powers permitting him to hack  into national electrical grids, water treatment plants  and nuclear sites.  These folks can’t have their myths both ways.  its either Putin is a genius,  or that he is dumb enough to leave his calling card behind in the form of a nerve agent with a Russian sounding name—Novichock. 

The timing seems odd as well. Why would such a high profile attempted assassination be planned by super-intelligent spy-chief Putin to occur only a few weeks or so prior to his re-election.  The event was timed perfectly so as to create a massive news media stir  just prior to the Russian federal elections on March 18.  This also does not seem to fit the character of Mr. Putin who our leaders want us to believe is the master of cyber warfare, international election tampering, and world strategy games. 

So who is responsible?  This attack smells to me of a “false flag” operation. That is a nation who commits a crime and then leaves evidence to suggest some one else did it.  If this is so, who would prosper?  The enemies of Mr. Putin by encouraging more sanctions and economic penalties.  The enemies of Mr. Trump, as well, perhaps to help “smoke him out from his unwillingness to come down hard on Mr. Putin.  And then there are some Arab enemies of Mr. Assad of Syria —who is a client of Mr. Putin—who would like to keep the “chemical weapons” story on the mast head of newspapers. It’s a complex story line, too complex for me,  perhaps it is best left to a master spy author like John Le Carre and his inimitable character  George Smiley to work out.  

Like Jeremy Corbyn the unconventional but insightful Labor Party leader of the UK, I remain unconvinced that the Russians did it.  

Sadly, the dangerous Russian-mass-hysteria-pushed by the Democrats (for base domestic political purposes) and with the mindless collusion of our main stream media continues unabated to carry us closer to real conflict with another superpower. .