Sergei Skripal spy-murder concoction — flying nukes would not be all that bad, would they?

© 2018 Peter Free

 

30 March 2018

 

 

Government lies — and the oligarchical profits and personal advancements that they generate

 

Briefly stroll with me. The point will quickly establish itself.

 

Most of the public is too young to remember the Gulf of Tonkin lie that escalated the Vietnam War.

 

That untruth paralleled Nazi falsities that pretended that Poland had attacked a radio station in Germany. What was called Operation Himmler justified Germany's invasion of Poland. Which, in turn, began World War II.

 

Similarly bold untruths have characterized American propaganda since Vietnam. Daniel McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, made a representative observation in this regard just yesterday.

 

Addressing Western tale-telling about the Russian Federation's alleged responsibility for the attempted murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal in England, McAdams said:

 

 

We haven't seen the alleged victims of the poisoning. We haven't seen any evidence whatsoever.

 

In fact the High Court in the UK contradicted what Prime Minister Theresa May said when she said she was certain that [Skripal and his daughter] were poisoned with a military grade nerve gas and certain that it was of the Novichok variety.

 

The Court itself in their investigation of the blood contradicted that.

 

What reason would Putin have for poisoning a has-been, washed up former double agent who was living out his retirement in the UK, having not only served his time in a Russian jail, but been sent to the UK by Russia?

 

The whole thing is that it doesn't make sense and it's not supposed to make sense.

 

So this is a well-coordinated attack, probably by the US and the UK.

 

[W]hat the media is doing is propagandizing the population in favor of the madman theory.

 

That's critical to do when you're trying to start aggression against a country. We had it with Gaddafi, we had it with Saddam Hussein, with Assad, with Kim Jong-un. 'These are madmen who are irrational. We cannot do business with them. We cannot make a deal with them. They do crazy things that make no sense.'

 

© 2018 Daniel McAdams, Russia's Mistake in Skripal Case Is Hoping to Deal With Honest Players, Russia Insider (29 March 2018) (excerpts)

 

 

What has a little surprised me . . .

 

. . . is how quickly many European nations (and their allies) climbed aboard this provocatively unproven nonsense. Diplomats being expelled all over the place. Unfounded claims of Russian dangerousness. And so forth.

 

It is as if we do not mind emulating how mistakenly both World Wars began.

 

 

The moral? — Insofar as generating deadly conflict remains Fat Cat profitable, we will keep enduring it

 

Indolent Western sheep are too sleepy — or too herbivorously thirsty for other people's blood (to craft a fractured metaphor) — to recognize what is going on.

 

Perhaps they will wake up, when it looks like nukes are going to fly. The possibility of actually losing one's own red stuff is always immensely alerting. Especially for critters that run in nitwitted, frequently hysterical flocks.

 

By then, history being witness, it will be too late.

 

On the bright side, I am certain that surviving American and European corporatists will find ways to market radioactive fleece.

 

What's good for the dollar (or the pound and euro) is (presumably) good for humanity.