LA PISTA SHARBAF

En medio de las atrocidades que Israel sigue cometiendo en Gaza surgen a luz los elementos extremistas judíos que hoy apoyan a Netanyahu han tenido gran participación en el terrorismo dentro como fuera de Palestina ¿Hasta dónde han llegado para influir en la política israelí?

 

Por Charles H. Slim

Un evento que en occidente paso fuera del radar de los medios fue la “Conferencia para la Victoria de Israel” y ello no fue casual. Celebrada hace unas semanas en Jerusalén y a la cual concurrieron Benjamín Netanyahu y 12 de sus ministros supremacistas se hizo una exhortación a la destrucción de los palestinos, pero eso no es lo más preocupante. En la misma fue orador nada menos que el rabino Uzi Sharbaf, un criminal convicto por varias masacres, heredero del extremismo sionista con el cual operaba en la Palestina bajo el protectorado británico, la llamada “pandilla Stern”.

En un artículo muy interesante del periodista francés Thierry Meyssan se aborda la oscura historia de este personaje y el peligro que hoy representa para EEUU y Gran Bretaña en momentos que buscan detener las atrocidades del régimen de Netanyahu (https://www.voltairenet.org/article220420.html ).

En medio del genocidio y los incontables crímenes de guerra que el estado de Israel está cometiendo contra la población palestina de la Franja de Gaza y contra la propia Naciones Unidas, emergen a la luz del día quienes son los inspiradores histórico-ideológicos de estos crímenes y lo mejor aún, su líder más destacado.

Como buenos herederos de los asesinos del “Leji” o “pandilla Stern” que operaron en Palestina hasta la instauración de Israel en 1948, Sharbaf y sus seguidores preparados desde niños para hacer valer la supremacía judía por todos los medios posibles y entre los que se halla el asesinato y el terrorismo, fueron durante toda la década de los ochenta activos muy útiles para las agencias de inteligencia occidentales durante la Guerra fría. Esta célula de extremistas judíos fue creada en 1980 por Menajem Livni, Yehoshua Ben-Shoshan y Yehuda Etzion y a la cual se uniría más tarde Uzi Sharbaf quien hoy es el sucesor de todo ese terror.   

Durante esos años estuvieron contenidos por Washington pero tras la caída del Muro de Berlín en 1989 y la posterior implosión de la URSS en 1991 la gente de Sharbaf y el mismo quedaron por su cuenta y libres para desplegar sus talentos en donde quisieran.

Muchos de los seguidores que operaban en los territorios ocupados habían sido encarcelados en Israel no por matar palestinos sino, por violar el Decreto de Prevención del Terrorismo de 1948 pero fueron liberados en 1990.

Es precisamente en ese espacio de tiempo (comienzos de la década de los 90) cuando se establecen los contactos secretos entre Yasser Arafat y la representación israelí tratando de llegar a un acuerdo. Esto sulfuraba a los sectores de la ultraderecha laica y religiosa israelí con Yitzack Shamir al frente de este desagrado, pero estos no eran lo únicos enfurecidos. Atrás de las estructuras políticas y de seguridad israelíes estaban (y hoy están en el gobierno) los colonos extremistas de los asentamientos ilegales quienes estaban dispuestos a cualquier cosa antes de reconocerles derechos a los palestinos.

Justamente eran los colonos extremistas liderados por Menachem Livni quienes estaban dispuestos a lo peor para frenar ese proceso. Entre los talentos de Livni estaba el armado de coches bomba y trampas lapa contra los árabes palestinos, táctica que emplearían también otras latitudes. Esta parte de la historia es algo desconocido en Argentina, aunque son entendibles (pero no justificables) los motivos para ello. Por ejemplo, nunca se ha contado al público cuales eran las acciones de estos grupos (que no eran de caridad, por cierto), sus alcances y sus consecuencias. Como bien señalamos al comienzo, la gente de Livni y Sharbaf colaboró con la CIA y el MI6 en actos de terrorismo (incluyendo el que se cometían desde el estado) en lugares tan distantes como África y Latinoamérica y los cuales quedaron en la impunidad por estar bajo el ala de Washington.

En la década de los ochentas asesinaron con disparos, trampas explosivas y coches bomba a muchos palestinos (incluyendo mujeres y niños) alimentando así el círculo de venganzas entre árabes y judíos. A pesar de que los principales cabecillas fueron encarcelados, sus acciones nunca se detuvieron.

Al ser liberados de la cárcel en Israel, se pusieron a trabajar en lo único que sabían hacer, pero esta vez con un objetivo central: Impedir que se llegara a un acuerdo de paz con la OLP.

Con contactos en todo el mundo y con ayuda de sectores del Shin Bet y el Mossad, la gente de Sharbaf contaba con información privilegiada de cuáles eran los potenciales “puntos blandos” alrededor del mundo para generar un ataque que diera por efecto la conmoción política y social que boicoteara el posible acuerdo entre Tel Aviv y la OLP. Para financiarse recibían fondos de asociaciones en EEUU y Europa, algo que costeaba sus operaciones y aseguraba su subsistencia. No sabemos si Shamir estaba al tanto de esto pero es muy posible que sí, ya que él también además de ser partidario del revisionismo sionista, había sido miembro del “Leji” y como tal, participe entre otros crímenes, del asesinato en septiembre de 1948 del conde Folke Bernadotte, mediador de paz de la ONU.

La Argentina de inicio de los 90 era el escenario ideal ya que, además de la gran comunidad que alberga, con una sociedad desconocedora de estas realidades y más preocupada por dilemas internos, estaba prácticamente desmantelada su seguridad e inteligencia siendo incluso muy fácil colarla mediante sobornos a los funcionarios públicos. En todo el lapso que duraron las conversaciones entre la OLP y los representantes israelíes se produjeron muchos asesinatos, atentados (entre ellos el 1992 en Buenos Aires) y provocaciones que intentaban mostrar que no valía la pena la paz.

Casualmente, al no producirse ese efecto y potenciado por los acuerdos de Oslo firmados en Camp David en 1993, se produce al año siguiente otro cruento atentado en Buenos Aires que fue utilizado inmediatamente por la ultraderecha israelí y las organizaciones sionistas del mundo -y que el mismo Netanyahu suele recordar- como una prueba del error de llegar a un acuerdo con los palestinos. Pese a ello y sin caer en la provocación esperada, el entonces primer ministro Yitzack Rabin prosiguió con la profundización del acuerdo y en noviembre de 1995 es asesinado por uno de estos extremistas judíos.

Hubiera sido muy interesante develar cuáles eran los nexos locales de estos extremistas supremacistas.Pese a todos estos antecedentes y las inconsistencias que se comprobaron en las investigaciones, las autoridades judiciales argentinas omitieron investigar esta línea, yendo por el camino que les señalaría el Departamento de Estado norteamericano y Tel Aviv.

Hoy estos mismos extremistas que acompañan a “Bibi” Netanyahu en el gobierno y que participaron en la conferencia, son los que (por las advertencias de occidente) amenazan a sus anteriores benefactores y es por eso que la administración Biden ordeno el corte de los fondos provenientes de donaciones que se giran desde Sinagogas en Brooklin y otras ciudades que están destinados a financiar las operaciones de la gente de Sharbaf. Esta misma medida ha sido imitada por la mayoría de los gobiernos de la Unión Europea y no sabemos si desde el gobierno argentino se ha tomado la misma medida con cuentas similares en el país, con lo cual habrá que ver cuál es la reacción de estos sectores.

TIME OUT?

The current global geopolitical instability for which the Anglo-Saxon West, led by the US, is primarily responsible, will not necessitate a renewal within the political family in Washington? Throw Biden a towel!

 

By Sidney Hey

The best description that can be given of the administration and the person of Joseph Biden is a knock out. Biden doesn't even know where he stands anymore, he forgets details and facts about the issues he has to deal with every day, and he goes so far as to confuse the president of Egypt with the president of Mexico, man, the state of the Union is really in serious trouble and the Americans urgently need a new social contract with their government.

There are many in Washington and within the neoconservative camp itself who see Biden as a real danger to national security, and they have every reason to do so. Some even suggest removing him so that Kamala Harris can replace him for his remaining term in the White House, an idea that does not sit well with the “hawks”.

Biden is a problem rather than a solution and the issue of uncontrolled migration has filled the cup, opening the door for Donald Trump and the whole gang of Republicans who follow him.

He is the same guy who got the USA into new wars, who reinforced the aberrant policy of information censorship -led by the military and intelligence- against the Russian media and against all those who try to get information from those sources (throwing away freedom of speech), and as if he were in a tavern after drinking a few beers his tongue does not tremble to insult other presidents. How much longer can a president in this state of mind continue to run the affairs of the country?

The US, and especially its citizens, are in deep shit and those responsible for this are none other than the same politicians who are part of the corrupt elite serving the Establishment and who for decades have enjoyed the publicity given to them by all the media, including the entertainment media. This situation is now a globalised issue and that is why politicians (Republicans, Democrats and so-called independents) are so interested in continuing to do business in other latitudes.

The case of Ukraine is paradigmatic and serves as an example of how US political corruption is so pervasive that it runs through even President Biden's own family. Why do you think Washington supported the 2014 Maidan coup: to fight corruption? Absolutely not. To put in place a puppet to sell the country to them, not because they cared about Ukraine's institutionality. On top of that, have they forgotten about the business dealings in Ukraine of Hunter Biden and his business partner Christopher Heinz, John Kerry's stepson, which involved parties with expensive prostitutes and drugs to the financing of laboratories where dangerous biological agents were produced? Imagine how many parties with prostitutes and drugs of the highest purity can be paid for with the proceeds of those dirty deals.

That's why politicians want to continue funding a war in a country that is already lost. But if it is lost, why continue financing it? The only explanation seems to be: hard cash.

The corruption of the Ukrainian political class is politically functional for Washington and a beneficial asset for the same US politicians who have no qualms about agencies like the CIA and government assets being found cooperating with the Ukrainian mafias who have shown that they have no qualms about selling the arms and materiel that the West gives them. Have people forgotten about the war material that got into the hands of “Hamas” with which they attacked the Israelis last October 7? How will US citizens shake off this filth that eats away at their country and spills over to the rest of the globe?

This is undoubtedly the key to the change of tenant in the White House, but of course, this alone is not enough.

What is needed is a 180 degree change in the hegemonistic policy that the US has been forcing with disdain for the last three decades on its citizens and the peoples of the nations it has ruined and which has only sunk the state into a quagmire from which it is getting harder and harder to extricate itself every year. It is a part of this political elite that has pushed this madness under the most colourful rationale but which in reality only seeks to create and secure fabulous business for the lobbies they serve and from them, receive their due.

These are the neoconservatives, who, let us remember, are on both sides of the two-party system. They have been the forerunners and responsible for the criminal actions against other sovereignties and the humanity of all those peoples ravaged, and all for what? Oil, gas and control of both legal and illegal trade routes. They have not hesitated to use every possible strategy and dirty tactic (including False Flags and terrorism) to realise their plans.

The abuse of power in which they have engaged in the past, and with which they are currently driving behind Joe Biden's administration to realise those plans, have been the enablers of creating geopolitical realities that the old fox Zbigniew Brzezinski in his work "The Grand Chessboard" had warned that Washington should avoid. To make matters worse, the Biden administration has not only failed to avoid them but has enabled them to such an extent that Brzezinski's fears have materialised in war in Ukraine and preparations to provoke China. Worse still, the government in Canberra is being led by the nose in these plans. The heavy blows to the US and British navies in the Red Sea are lessons that the Australian government should be evaluating before investing (in a business that involves the British) in its plans to expand the fleet (with “Hunter” class frigates).

But it is the Americans themselves who should be asking the question: Who got the US into this big mess?

Biden is only the visible face of a corrupt system that has infected everything. It is clear that in addition to being corrupt and criminally ruthless, the political elite in Washington is brutally irresponsible and lacking in realistic vision, and to make matters worse, they know nothing about geopolitics. Biden once he walks through the door of the White House will be absolved of all his bungling as incapable, but what about the rest of the political elite?

  

 

A PLEASANT VISIT

James Cameron's arrival in the Falkland Islands poses a troublesome dichotomy for the Argentine government: will we continue to be pro-British?

 

By Sir Charlattam 

There is no doubt that Argentina has radically changed its geopolitical stance, which some believe is much bolder and more dangerous than the one adopted in the 1990s by the neoliberal government of Carlos Menem. In just a few hours the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Buenos Aires as a way of counterbalancing the working tour of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who is in the region; the year is just beginning and it is a very hot one.

Today in the Casa Rosada there is an administration that has become obsequiously and obscenely aligned with US geopolitics and especially with that of Israel, so much so that they have wasted no time in condemning the courage of Brazilian president Lula Da Silva for calling things by their name with regard to what is happening in occupied Palestine. A separate chapter deserves the role of the ass-kissing journalists (very similar to those of the BBC) who ardently insult and belittle those who, like Lula, denounce the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian population.

The Argentinean population seems to be zombified and has not yet realised the danger it is in with such a government. Oh, you are probably wondering if, because of these comments, I approve of the previous populist government of Alberto Fernandez and believe me, in foreign policy both are as bad as they are unconscious.

What Milei's government is hiding from its people is the close military and intelligence cooperation it has begun to extend individually with some NATO members, especially France and Britain, to see how Argentina can (in exchange for economic and commercial benefits) help in the Ukraine affair. But Javier Milei seems to be ill-informed about the degraded economic situation of the EU and especially of these two countries for getting into the eleven-legged shirt put on them by Washington.

In the midst of an unstoppable economic recession the rebellion of French and also British farmers is cornering both Macron and the shoddy banker Rishi Sunak and preventing any grain deal with Mercosur.

But despite these complications, Milei seems to be persistently intent on pandering and meddling in what is happening in Ukraine, especially inspired by his admiration for Volodymyr Zelensky as a Jew, a figure placed by the Jewish oligarchs of Odessa ideologically close to war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and sponsored by the White House.

In short, there is nothing to be astonished about this and even less so, with the alignment that Milei is also carrying out with the openly racist and Islamophobic European ultra-right (such as the Spanish) which (coincidentally) aligns itself in support of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and the pro-Nazi regime in Kiev under the umbrella of NATO led from behind by Washington.

It is all a circle and the relations that Milei is forging with the Atlanticist power will lead him like the yellow road of "Alice in Wonderland" to the main centres of global power that in reality (and perhaps without him knowing it) put him where he is today.

In this context, one cannot be surprised that anything to do with Argentine sovereignty and self-determination is off the agenda of this government, let alone when such issues upset its admired role models. If you had the chance to ask any old coal miner or steelworker in Sheffield to tell you what "Maggie" did with their lives they might not talk the way they do. To any Argentinian she is an old bitch from hell, though she doesn't look like one to the Anglophiles who second Javier Milei. But in Argentina, obsequiousness is a national sport and does not distinguish between parties. How could the foreign ministry of this openly Atlanticist government criticise one of its members?

The sudden arrival in the Falkland Islands of British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is the most graphic example of this. Despite the fact that it was already known in diplomatic circles that Cameron and a group of his advisers were making an incursion, the Argentine representation in London said nothing. If there is one thing that for Argentine Anglophiles takes precedence over the interests of their own country, it is not to lose face with the Foreign Office, and that is why they kept their mouths shut.

This is how it went almost unnoticed by ordinary Argentines, for the simple reason that the Anglophile media in Buenos Aires took it upon themselves to make it almost unnoticeable. But is there something else behind this trip? Cameron certainly did not make such a long trip for a sightseeing tour. Nor are the apparent intentions to grant the Kelpers some political autonomy sincere. For London, these forgotten inhabitants of these islands are a guarantee of British interests and that means Britain's and no one else's. There are certain movements that have been detected in the UK.

There are certain movements that have been detected in the region, especially over mainland Patagonia, that are linked to the Mount Pleasant air base that have not been aired to the public.

According to reliable sources before Milei arrived at the Casa Rosada, the US Navy fleet under Southern Command was already moving in the South Atlantic alongside the Royal Army, something that in a country with a defence and strategic interests state would have raised alarm bells, but that is not the case in Argentina.

Perhaps the Argentinians do not know it or perhaps their representatives are not interested in them knowing it, but in the current and very complicated circumstances of the war that NATO is waging against the Russian Federation, that sector of the South Atlantic and especially the Mount Pleasant base is of high strategic value as it would play a critical role in a possible nuclear war. That would be the reason why Cameron came to the islands. The problem with this is, do they know all this in Buenos Aires?

 

 

 

EXTREMISMO

PRAGMATICO

¿Cuál es el verdadero núcleo ideológico del poder político de Israel que está llevando a la región a una escalada de la cual no sobrevivirá?

 

Por Charles H. Slim

Por algún motivo o causa, se producen los eventos de nuestra realidad. Los hechos no surgen de la nada. Es una cuestión de sentido común que se traduce en el principio de causa y efecto. Esto obviamente se aplica a la vida política sin que haya excepciones a este principio. En lo sucedido el 7 de octubre pasado en Palestina y que ha desatado la espiral de violencia actual, existe una cadena de causas que nos retrotrae hasta comienzos del siglo XX y que desde 1948 han estado siendo omitidas por los medios occidentales, algo que le interesa a Israel y a sus partidarios.

Relegar 76 años de una ocupación sangrienta y sus consecuencias parece muy difícil de justificar, pero contra todo razonamiento y el sentido común eso es lo que han estado llevando a cabo los intereses sionistas que apoyan al estado de Israel. Para ello, los medios han jugado un papel central en ocultar y desinformar esta parte de la historia. Hoy a la luz de lo ocurrido el 7 de octubre volvemos a ver el intento de recortar la historia intentando hacer creer que las acciones de la resistencia palestina surgieron de la nada y solo con el objeto de asesinar judíos.  Incluso y de forma inmediata los partidarios sionistas en occidente comenzaron a tratar de hacer creer que los palestinos buscan crear otra “Shoa”.

No hace falta hacer intrincados argumentos para señalar estas canallescas falacias. No hay lógica humana que justifique matar a unos es malo y matar a otros no lo es. La opinión pública en general sabe la verdad, aunque siga mostrando temor en involucrarse.

Si partimos que el estado de Israel fue erigido sobre la base del terrorismo y la conquista militar ¿Cuál es la legitimidad y mucho menos su legalidad?

Precisamente y a la sombra del genocidio ampliamente documentado que el ejército israelí (apoyado como nadie por EEUU) esta llevando sobre la población palestina de la franja de Gaza, es que la opinión pública mundial ve con claridad cuáles son las respuestas.

A la luz de esta macabra realidad, el relato victimista con el cual el sionismo ha tratado de tapar los crímenes de su estado representativo, se cae a pedazos y no solo ha revelado los espíritus de los palestinos que resisten con una fiereza nunca vista o de los pueblos árabes que se han lanzado con decisión a una lucha en la que la muerte está asegurada sino también de una parte del judaísmo que no aprueba los crímenes que el nacionalismo judío lleva a cabo bajo la excusa de representarles.

Las incoherencias históricas ya no pueden ocultarse. Ya son muy pocos los que creen las editoriales de esos “grandes” medios angloestadounidenses que supieron marcar la pauta de qué es lo bueno y que es lo malo de una determinada situación o suceso de la historia. Son los mismos que trataron de ocultar las masacres de civiles, las torturas y los abusos en Afganistán e Iraq, las apoyadas en Siria, el ominoso campo de concentración de “Guantánamo”, todos estos lugares con una cosa en común, la mayoría de sus víctimas, musulmanes y por tal motivo, según su punto de vista no tan humanos como los occidentales y que los sionistas han blanqueado últimamente calificando a los palestinos como “animales humanos”.

En el caso de Israel el trabajo de esos mismos medios, ha estado dedicado a mostrarlo como el “bueno”, la “víctima” bajo el asedio de los árabes e islámicos “malos”, una visión simplona pero efectiva en épocas de monopolio del relato informativo, pero eso ya es historia.

Hoy ya se está sabiendo quiénes eran con mayor detalle los fundadores del estado de Israel y cuáles fueron sus acciones. Asesinos y ladrones agrupados en bandas como “Leji” (Pandilla Stern), “Irgun” y las “Palmach” fueron los creadores e incluso fueron mandatarios del actual estado que hoy el extremismo judío quiere ampliar con una sola idea: judeizar toda Palestina. Es el mismo extremismo que realizó (con la complicidad del Shin Bet y el Mossad) toda clase de atentados terroristas y termino asesinando en noviembre de 1995 a Yitzak Rabin por buscar la paz con los palestinos. Pueden apostar lo que quieran que los buenos judíos (religiosos o no), como personas simples e iguales a cualquier otro ser humano que pisa este mismo mundo no los celebran ¿Cómo podrían celebrarles cuando sus métodos y políticas son tan aberrantes como la de los fascistas y los nazis?

Precisamente esa historia ocultada por los medios y de la cual el sionismo ha hecho hasta lo imposible por enterrar, es la que hoy se carnifica en el actual gobierno de extremistas judíos liderado por el primer ministro Benjamín Netanyahu. Son los herederos del Sionismo revisionista fundado por Vladimir “Zeev” Jabotinsky y que por la década de los veintes en el siglo XX se alió con los ultranacionalistas ucranianos Simón Petliura y Dimitro Dontsov quienes a su vez colaborarían con el Tercer Reich para perseguir y asesinar a miles de húngaros, judíos ucranianos y gitanos ¿Cómo es posible eso?

Sumada a esta inconfesable realidad político histórica hay otras facetas más negras del sionismo (si es que puede haber algo más oscuro) que dejan pesimamente mal parado a ese relato victimista con el cual los extremistas del revisionismo mediante los medios y sus empleados, tapaban sus crímenes. Muchos ex “SS” del nazismo terminaron siendo reclutados para usar sus talentos en inteligencia y torturas al servicio de ese proto estado judío ¿Quién puede explicar esto?

Otro escenario donde se ve muy bien como estas viejas y oscuras alianzas que los medios y los historiadores del Establecimiento occidental han ocultado es Ucrania. Con un payaso como Volodymyr Zelensky apoyado por el circulo de oligarcas judíos de Odessa, quien ha tratado de influir con su ascendencia judía askenazi para crear un relato épico similar al fabulado para instaurar el estado tapón en Eurasia tal como Israel en el Medio Oriente, se puede ver ese entretejido entre nazis, ultranacionalistas eslavos y los sionistas que siempre estuvo y sigue estando vigente.

Con este trasfondo por qué asombraría que los israelíes adherentes a esta ideología venenosa, estén festejando las masacres en Gaza e incluso haciendo fiestas posteadas en sus redes donde bailan y sonríen por la desgracia de los palestinos bajo las bombas. Simplemente macabro.

Ello pone de manifiesto que dentro del sionismo hay núcleos más extremos y peligrosos que en el pasado atacaron a sus beneficiarios angloestadounidenses y que hoy, ante la oportunidad de hacerse de la franja de Gaza no dudaran de volver a hacerlo si no se cumplen sus planes. Precisamente son los supremacistas que hoy acompañan a Netanyahu los sucesores de esa línea extremista que no ha dudado en asesinar mediante simples pistoleros o mediante atentados sangrientos a quienes se les opongan, judíos o no.    

 

 

SIGNS OF THE END - OR THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER WAR?

The definition of war in Ukraine is near. Zelensky's regime cries ammunition shortage and the frontline in Donetsk crumbles How does Washington try to avoid the inevitable?

By Sidney Hey

The death of Alexei Navalny in Russia's high-security K3 prison at the Arctic Pole has been used by Western governments as a new argument to try to smear and demonise the image of the Russian government and especially that of its president. But who are these declamators and what is their political and moral legitimacy?

To begin with, and recalling the command of Jesus of Nazareth, these bombastic accusers should be reminded that “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. Perhaps this teaching does not interest them or is meaningless, since most of them may call themselves Christians, but in reality they are deep down supporters of that Pharisaic ideology called Zionism.

Alexei Navalny, who was a lawyer and an opponent of the Russian government, was not a convinced democrat, a humanist or a fighter for the independence of the individual from the jaws of an oppressive state led by a “Tsar”. Nor was he a supporter of the Kiev regime, or at least not that. As his past reveals, because of his proven lack of scruples and known approval for the brutal intervention in Chechnya, he was not exactly a democrat (except in the American sense). This made him a highly useful element for the West and it was therefore worth inflating him against the Kremlin.

In that role, Anglo-American governments gave him all possible support to try to create and lead an opposition movement that will lead Russia to political collapse. In doing so, he focused on criticising the management and person of Vladimir Putin as corrupt, something that the bureaucrats in Washington and their Western media reporters saw as earning him a poisoning attempt in 2020 allegedly ordered by Vladimir Putin.

In reality, if that had any semblance of veracity, the FSB's executors would not have failed, as Putin himself claimed in response to a journalist's question. Moreover, London's embarrassing and unsuccessful attempt to frame Putin for the attempted poisoning in the Skripal case is still not forgotten, remember that?

Navalny was presented by Westerners as a “liberal hope” in the midst of a depressed Russian society besieged by a “repressive regime”, a description clearly novelised by the CIA's psychological warfare specialists.

But that was not what led to his arrest, trial and 19-year prison sentence. His activities began to go beyond mere public criticism and organising street demonstrations. There is a good part of this “liberal's” activities that the Western media will never tell. Because of his interest in Washington and London, he was supported in every possible way -albeit very cautiously- to complicate Putin's governance. He was a useful pawn in subverting the Russian Status Quo. Precisely his contacts with US and British agents (who devote their time to such matters) for the purpose of operating within the Federation put him at the centre of the Russian authorities' observations.

Although there is no diagnosis of the cause of death, the Anglo-American governments are accusing him, without evidence, of murder. It was to be expected that his wife Yulia Navalnaya would come out in support of the Western accusations.

But the first thing that needs to be addressed is who are the accusers? The world witnessed the persecution of the researcher Julian Assange, whose assassination was demanded in Washington and after he was granted asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the brutal raid to drag him to the scaffold to be in the hands of the specialised “interrogators” of the CIA and MI6. And what was his crime? Ah yes. Showing the truth of what the US and its British partners were doing in Iraq. No doubt a great demonstration of respect for freedom and democracy.

The same with Guantanamo, a double aberration since, besides being a territory occupied from Cuba, its facilities have become a detention centre to carry out all kinds of tortures to “suspected” terrorists, all of them Muslims. The use of terrorist tactics inside Russia (supported by the CIA and MI6) is another of the opacities of Western “democracies”. And the list of the West's inconsistencies goes on and on, and Russia is well aware of this, so the Kremlin is rightly asking itself who are these gentlemen to come here and insult us with these falsehoods for free?

These accusations are (in addition to supreme hypocrisy) the sign of an undeniable desperation in the face of imminence. While Zelensky was strutting around at the Security Conference in Munich, his troops were already beginning to flee in disarray in all directions from the front in north-eastern Donetsk, leaving the way clear for Russian troops who have found several cellars where ethno-politically motivated torture of local citizens was taking place. Zelensky was obviously being informed of this but the clown had to keep on smiling.

The fall just a few hours ago of the strategic town of “Advidka” is undoubtedly part of the desperation not only of Zelensky's regime but of its Anglo-American backers and the death of Navalny is a desperate card to try to cover this up.

It is now up to the Biden administration in Washington and NATO to decide whether they want (without dirty tricks) to sit down and talk or to double down with the risk that this might entail.