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London’s Stoking of Crisis With Moscow Exposes Western Hypocrisy

Date: 17 March 2018 - 21:37

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats by Britain and Russia London and Moscow, following the alleged poisoning in London of double agent Sergei Viktorovich Skripal, are not related to that man who is said to be in a critical condition at Salisbury District Hospital, and neither could be called haphazard.
As a matter of fact, the timing of the whole scenario indicates that it is part of an elaborate and intricate psychological warfare by the West, especially the UK and the US, to either force Russia to halt its support for President Bashar al-Assad and the ongoing victorious operations of the Syrian army against western-backed terrorists in Ghouta, or to find a pretext for Anglo-American military involvement in that hapless country.
Sergei Skripal is a spent force. Britain and the US used him decades ago to gain vital information on what was then the Soviet Union, when this double agent opted to betray his homeland for a fistful of dollars.
Now, whether or not he has been granted British citizenship, as London claims, he is not worth anymore, and that explains why he was poisoned by a Soviet-era nerve agent known as Novichok, which the West says is possessed only by Russia and is unknown to Britain and the US.
Nothing could be far from the truth, since the evil mind that invented this nerve agent for the USSR, Vil Mirzayanov, long defected to the West and presently lives under government protection in the US.
This means, only simpletons will believe the Russian chemist has not revealed the formula for manufacture of Novichok to the US or the UK, though they do not like to disclose these facts and continue to insist that only Russia possess this nerve agent, and hence Moscow has poisoned Skripal.
If there is any truth in London’s claim, why is it trying to blow the matter out of proportion, instead of responding in good faith to Moscow’s request for samples of the poison used in the alleged attack and its offer to aid in the investigation?
The Kremlin says Skripal is a relic of the Soviet past with no relevance for Russia or the need to poison him. It also points out that the British government has failed to provide any samples of the alleged Novichok poison either to the Russians to examine it, or to relevant international organizations as required under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Moreover, London also fails to explain how it knows that Novichok agents were used on Skripal, unless it has its access to this deadly chemicals and knows both the formula for producing it and the symptoms of its use.
Russia, which is facing western meddling in Ukraine as well, has not only dismissed Britain’s accusations as sheer lies, but in retaliation ordered immediate closure of the British Council in Moscow, in addition to the expulsion of British diplomats. It means Moscow is not in the mood to back-off.
The whole world, including Russia, knows fully well that the British and the Americans are known to be preposterous liars, as is evident by the ongoing crisis in Syria and their support for bloodthirsty terrorists, in addition to what they did in Iraq.
People have not forgotten the lies of the US and Britain to doctor the dossier for invading Iraq on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction in that country, which was destroyed, but no WMDs turned up.
Now, following years of frustration in the face of Russia’s veto power at the UN Security Council where the West’s attempts to impose unjust and untruthful resolutions upon Yemen and Syria have failed, Britain and the US, it seems, have decided to kill "used-up-cared” Skripal in a painful manner, in a bid to defame Moscow and find a pretext for open military interference in Syria for saving the terrorists from extinction.
It remains to be seen, how far London and Washington are prepared to stoke tensions with Moscow, which has clearly stated its readiness to retaliate in like manner.