Russophobia is the sentiment that has recently become particularly widespread in Anglo-Saxon countries. Yet those that are pushing it are pursuing a very specific goal: to justify the aggressive, expansionist policies of British and American special interests.
Today Russophobic commentators are trying to scare regular readers with the alleged uncontrolled ambitions Russia has. We are being told that Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to conquer Europe, the world and the solar system. And these so-called analysts don’t even have the courage to admit that things looks rather differently in the real world. While the West is crying “bear” yet again, NATO is rapidly expanding to the east, with the distribution of military powers so uneven that it is nearly unrealistic. One has to be delusional to believe Russia could even dream of conquering Europe.
Before the Middle East was destabilized due to a planned series of events that we know today as the Arab Spring, it was the West and not Russia that invaded Iraq, Afghanistan and then after 2011, Libya, all while fueling the conflict in Syria by creating and arming ISIS. While overthrowing secular governments and supporting all sorts of terrorist organizations, and while supporting the Nazi government it installed in Ukraine in a bid to destabilize the situation directly on Russia’s borders, the West is still trying to convince everyone that Russia is a danger to world peace, and not itself.
In recent months, Russia has been suffering vigorous verbal attacks of all sorts by British politicians, who are apparently trying to overcome American neocons in this most recent Russia-bashing competition. While local US commentators accuse Moscow of stealing the presidential election, their British colleagues couldn’t come up with anything better that saying that Russia influenced the Brexit vote. The UK Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw has gone as far as to claim that Russia’s interference allegedly predetermined the outcome of Brexit.
It seems that the BBC, Times, and the Independent have grown jealous of Russia’s RT and Sputnik, since they have collectively jumped onto the bandwagon of anti-propaganda witch hunters.
By the way, a number of Western “international media sources” have recently been quite accurately described by US President Donald Trump who called them fake news. Although he was mainly referring to US media sources, a similar statement could easily be made about the major European media sources as well.
The UK’s deceptive coverage of Russia is being supported by German media sources as well, which have gone as far as to announce that Russian special services have allegedly been sending their agents disguised as refugees for years into the EU, in a bid to destabilize it, as it’s been announced by the German TV channel ZDF.
However, Russia-bashing is more than just a pastime for highly unprofessional Western journalists and analysts, since all those accusations pursue as specific goal – to distract the attention of the European population away from the rapidly deteriorating social benefits they are being provided with, along with a string of terrorist attacks that have shaken US and European society to the core. The distribution of wealth has become so bad that in recent years, eight of the richest people in the world accumulated the same amount of resources as more than half of the world’s population.
However, Russia has nothing to do with a total of 400 ISIS militants arriving to Europe under the command of an Albanian ex-NATO soldier Lavdrim Muhakseri, as it been announced last January by Espresso. Muhakseri, can be found among the leaders of the Islamic State terrorist group, who decided to bring his fellow militants to Kosovo once ISIS began suffering one defeat after another in Syria. After joining ISIS back in 2012 under the alias of Abu Abdullah al-Kosov, Muhakseri became known as the leader of Kosovo militants in Syria. He’s been actively searching for new recruits among the Albanians and Europeans for years. He’s been featured in a number of ISIS propaganda videos where he usually executes hostages in a brutal manner. The above mentioned journal reports that he visited Kosovo back in 2013, but was not detained.
As for Britain, it has become the champion of low-quality disinformation campaigns a long time ago. One can just mention the so-called Syrian Observatory For Human Rights that is situated in London’s suburbs and has no observers in Syria whatsoever. Yet another organization that is no less provocative that operates under the guise of a human rights advocate while carrying out special missions of the British intelligence services are the so-called White Helmets.
The real threat is not to be found in Russia, but in ISIS’ territories, as it’s been announced by Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace in his interview with the Sunday Times. He has even pointed out that ISIS militants have threatened the UK with terrorist attacks in its territory with the use of chemical weapons. Wallace has noted that earlier the Islamic State militants have already used poisonous gas in Iraq and Syria.
So maybe it’s about time for European statesmen to start defending Europe from real threats along with Russia, instead of taking part in Russia-bashing contest.
Martin Berger is a freelance journalist and geopolitical analyst, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
