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Geopolitics (mostly Syrian war, Axis of Resistance, now Ukraine war) — anti-propaganda — no love for Western hypocrisy — European (but not pro EU)
Dec 1, 2021 23 tweets 10 min read
#Ukraine #Russia

As we still don't really understand what game is played, and by whom, over troop movements on both sides of the Donbass, - here's an interesting article by @IgnatiusPost (often a CIA mouthpiece) that deserves some close reading!

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… "The CIA discovered something scary in October ..."

Translation: the CIA wants us to think they are "scared" (and perhaps ourselves be scared), - but for what reason?

I find it rather unlikely the CIA has real insights into *secret* Russian troop movements (esp. in Russia) ...
Jul 13, 2021 13 tweets 7 min read
Not just on Twitter - there are serious attempts, especially in Germany, to blame the 2015 refugee crisis on Putin intending to destabilize the EU internally.

Which is preposterously counterfactual!

Thread on a forgotten chapter of the Syrian war: There were many factors contributing to the unparalleled surge of refugees in 2015, but the Syrian war was no doubt the major driver.

Russia's intervention was the reaction to military setbacks suffered by the Syrian army in 2015.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_…
Jun 3, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
Important: it increasingly looks like the Ryanair incident in Belarus was indeed a Western psyop!

@MoonofA discusses the details and presents the big picture
moonofalabama.org/2021/06/khodor… And here comes the next bit:
even Protasevich himself suspects he was set up by an angry colleague!

rt.com/russia/525562-…
Apr 27, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
Better title:
How Bellingcat produced a lot of hot air and utterly destroyed their own storyline on the Czech spy case!

bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu… The aim of the article is to bolster the rationale for why on earth would Russian intelligence blow up a munition depot in Czechia in 2014 (as the evidence-free "hypothesis" runs).

Answer: because the weapons were destined for Ukraine.
Apr 18, 2021 28 tweets 13 min read
The farce continues:
Czech police name Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov - the two alleged Skripal assassins - as the Russian agents allegedly behind an explosion at a munitions dump in 2014!
#Skripalsaga They claim they have identified "various passports" the two men carried - but the connection with those explosions sounds rather speculative and more due to the desire to join in the propaganda war against Russia!

ft.com/content/93d8c6… ImageImage
Dec 15, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
#Navalny #Navalnychok

The Navalny story now overtakes the Skripal saga in absurdity:

the Western narrative managers have decided to amuse us with exciting new versions of the poisoning, - the Times excells with a theory of a double Novichok attack!

thetimes.co.uk/article/reveal… The first attack is now tied to Novichok droplets squirted on his underwear, specifically on the elastic waistband.

IMAGINE: Novichok in your pants!
🤓🧐😳😮 Image
Oct 27, 2020 17 tweets 8 min read
#WhiteHelmets
Operation "Whitewash Le Mesurier" has started, and Western journos show their enthusiasm for this criminal fraudster: What we know about Le Mesurier:

Oct 8, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Is there a "fifth Novichok"?

An "American Novichok", as claimed by former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons Igor Nikulin?

Yes - @collapse_into has found a confirming report:

vertic.org/wp-content/upl… It's a short report on the 24th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention:

US, Canada, NL proposed to add *2* families of chemicals to the OPCW prohibited list (incl. the "Salisbury Novichok");

Russia proposed to add *5* groups! Image
Sep 17, 2020 17 tweets 10 min read
#Navalny

There we have it:
the German gov't referred to EU and NATO for a common response to the suspected poisoning of Alexey Navalny, and the European Parliament now passes a resolution calling for an international probe & suspension of Nord Stream 2!

rt.com/russia/500929-… Image The resolution has no legal bearing - it is pure political posturing intended to “continue to isolate Russia in international forums” & “to prioritize the approval of EU human rights sanctions”.

How can you call for an investigation - and already anticipate the results?
Jul 17, 2020 14 tweets 7 min read
James Le Mesurier, founder of the #WhiteHelmets, was a criminal fraudster!

There were rumours of "financial irregularities" at Mayday Rescue after his death last November, - @volkskrant now presents an account based on an official inquiry:

volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg… In short: Le Mesurier faked receipts for funds designated for a rescue op - but used the $ 50,000 as bonus payments for himself, his wife, and a third administrator!
As the case was clear he admitted the fraud.

Summary:
nltimes.nl/2020/07/17/dut… Image
Jun 23, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Guardian fabulator Luke Harding writes a ridiculous puff piece about Bellingcat and their alleged "search" for the alleged Skripal assassins:

theguardian.com/world/2020/jun… And yes! - including the incredible fable that after long online search they happened upon a photo of Russian officers one of whom "looked like" Boshirov .... Image
Oct 23, 2019 25 tweets 14 min read
A new round for #OPCWScandal:

The Courage Foundation convened a panel about the OPCW-FFM report on Douma, including a former Director General of the OPCW and a member of the Douma investigation team from the @OPCW.

couragefound.org/2019/10/opcw-p… The findings are based on the whistleblower’s extensive presentation, including internal emails, text exchanges and suppressed draft reports:

=> Key information about chemical analyses, toxicology consultations, ballistics studies, and witness testimonies was suppressed!
Jul 12, 2019 15 tweets 10 min read
Analysis: Channel 4 @Channel4News @jonsnowC4 publish a pointless and self-defeating #WhiteHelmets propaganda piece allegedly showing a ‘double-tap’ airstrike targeting "rescuers"

channel4.com/news/exclusive… It takes only 24 seconds for the first lie: since joining the WhiteHelmets 4 years ago, "almost every day has been like this".

Nope, there had been no bombing for the 9 months of cease-fire before the recent Idlib offensive!

May 22, 2019 14 tweets 7 min read
Some thoughts on the status of the Engineering Assessment leaked by the
"Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media"

#Douma #OPCWScandal

@PiersRobinson1 @Tracking_Power @Tim_Hayward_

syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers… In response to the leak, the OPCW denied Henderson was part of the FFM, and spin doctors were quick to suggest he was just "a consultant" (@ScottLucas_EA ), was working "on the sidelines of the FFM" (@Brian_Whit, -> medium.com/@Brian_Whit/le…), "a disgruntled employee" (Higgins) ...
May 15, 2019 15 tweets 8 min read
#OPCWScandal

Details of the findings of the suppressed Engineering Assessment explained by @ClimateAudit - basically confirming all doubts concerning the two yellow cylinders arising from analysis of the visual evidence: I'll confine myself to a key point: how on earth could the object that created the hole with such force as to smash apart the metal rebars end up sitting on top of the hole?
Jun 29, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
Thread that confirms everything we know about the real course of the so-called "Syrian Revolution": Contrary to the ad nauseam repeated myths of the Western Narrative, the initial protests in 2011 were *not* peaceful - they were used to provoke a reaction from the government to further escalate!

Feb 10, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
Bellingcat - Garbage alert!

While correcting the wrong claims in the Newsweek article, Higgins uses the opportunity to recycle his own shoddy analysis about the "persistence of sarin".

"Clearly"? - "Any claims"?? - Really???

bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018… Here's what the two reports which he quotes actually say:
determining sarin persistence is complex, dependent on many conditions, especially temperature:

(GB = sarin)
rapporter.ffi.no/rapporter/2013…