John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Senior MPs join forces to counter Russian threat
“Powerful committees to look at 'Russian malign influence, including dirty money and propaganda”
What threat?
This is ridiculous.
The only "threat" Russia poses is a threat to British and American unchallenged manipulation of truth.
It's unbelievable, just on the basis of facts we already know, that the press and governments are pressing the "Russian threat" scenario.
I feel infinitely more threatened by high officials who feel free to lie and distort even in the face of contradictory evidence, who feel free to launch missiles before there is a scrap of evidence, who have felt free, covertly, to work for the destruction of Syria for a half dozen years, and who support mercenary thugs abroad.
And every time I hear the word, "oligarchs" from America or Britain, I can only think of the heads of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, the Gates' Foundation, Apple, Soros, and quite a number of others. The effort to use this term as a pejorative one for Russia is joke, a not very funny joke.
