By Larry Romanoff, February 28, 2022
"This is the largest, and most shocking, display of a centrally-controlled media flood of vicious invective that I have ever seen."
I made that comment to myself after reading thousands (and I don't exaggerate; I mean thousands) of articles in all the Western world's media about Kamila Valieva and Russia at the Olympics. But I'd hardly gotten the words out of my mouth when Kamila fell to second place, replaced by Vladimir Putin and Russia (again).
For background, I generally peruse 30 or more publications each day, in 15 or 20 countries, to learn what different countries are saying on important topics, and I save all webpages with useful content. With these Western attacks on Russia, I stopped. I've been doing this for many years, but in this case I could no longer stomach the rubbish I was reading, and I quit.
The intensity of the attacks on Russia are breath-taking. The false and twisted reports are finding new highs of dishonesty, and the range of items assembled to "punish" Russia would have been beyond the limits of my imagination only a week ago. Looking at the entire landscape, it is obvious this is all being tightly orchestrated from a central source, the usual suspects who benefit most from all wars, but it is astonishing to see how wildly they are grasping and how useless many of their actions must be. There seems almost a desperation to inflict pain, no matter how trivial, and to give the impression of an international consensus of inflicting pain. Some of the Western actions are serious, some almost comical, and others absolutely ridiculous. I have attempted here to give you a small sample of what I have collected. The main thread through all of it is the intensity of the attacks and the lies being told.
On the serious side, Switzerland, of all countries, suddenly abandoned its history of neutrality to claim it will impose "EU-like" sanctions on Russia, which means freezing or seizing all Russian bank accounts in the country. That is almost unbelievable. How could such a thing happen? Who put what kind of pressure on the Swiss government to effect this? (1) Everyone is joining in. The UK now "fast-tracks law to tackle Russian 'dirty money'", the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel claiming, "Time is up for Putin's cronies hiding dirty money in the UK", and Boris Johnson stating "there will be nowhere to hide your ill-gotten gains." (2) No evidence the gains are ill-gotten, but it seems none is necessary. The West appears unanimous in wanting to simply seize all assets owned by Russia or Russians, having convinced itself that laws no longer apply, that to punish disobedience you simply steal all of another's property and bankrupt him.
