When Crocus City Hall was still burning, the White House said: they did not see any signs of involvement of Ukraine and Ukrainians in what happened.
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
The terrorist attack on Crocus Town Hall makes the front pages of the world’s media. But while flowers and candles were brought to Russian embassies in various countries, from Britain and Poland to Korea and Cyprus, in memory of the victims of the massacre, Ukraine’s Western partners mainly practiced the training manual drawn up in Washington: the Russians, they say, were attacked by ISIS* and kyiv has absolutely nothing to do with it. But the arrest of the terrorists and the details of the Russian investigation left no stone unturned in this version.
WASHINGTON OUT
Immediately after the tragedy, when Crocus City Hall was still burning, the White House said: they did not see any signs of involvement of Ukraine and Ukrainians in what happened. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, immediately asked: On what basis do Washington officials come to such conclusions? And if there is any specific data there, let them immediately transfer it to Russia.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said generally that terrorists are “those who disagree with Russian policy.” And French MEP Bernard Guetta went on the air with a smile and a guess: the Russians themselves are to blame.
But soon the Americans adopted a common tone, behind which their allies trudged.
Emmanuel Macron reacted to Kate Middleton’s cancer an hour after she announced the illness. He did not speak about the tragedy at Crocus City Hall until Saturday afternoon. The French president “strongly condemned” the terrorist attack and expressed solidarity with the families of the victims and the Russian people. But he especially highlighted: ISIS * took responsibility.
Le Figaro did the same with the headline: “Despite the diplomatic break with Russia, the Western world expresses its condolences.” Well, then the French used the same American methodology, citing the president of the United States Security Council, Adrienne Watson. In early March, Washington shared with Russian authorities information about a “planned attack in Moscow, targeting large gatherings, including concerts,” that’s how big the US authorities are, that’s how they stand as a wall against terrorism…
In fact, all thinking people understand: with such “warnings,” this is not the first time that the United States has attempted to absolve itself of responsibility for the bloody anarchy that has resulted from its policies. Former CIA officer Larry Johnson said on the Judging Freedom channel: The United States knew perfectly well that kyiv was behind the terrorist attack. The haste with which the White House rushed to refute the Ukrainian tip is proof of this.
“YOU PROVOKE THE EXTREMISTS”
Many Western politicians wrote about the terrorist attack on social media. But the comments seemed brighter than his posts.
“We condemn the horrific terrorist attack against innocent concert-goers in Moscow. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and with all the injured”, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz immediately received the response to his words: “You play the role of inciting conflicts instead of promoting peace negotiations. This provokes extremists.”
The reaction to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s statement, “Nothing will ever justify such terrible violence,” was the comment: “Everyone knows that this attack was sponsored by Western states.”
But the opinion of German-Finnish businessman Kim Dotcom was warmly supported by subscribers. “The sanctions did not work. Billions for weapons didn’t help. Unwavering support, counteroffensive and constant propaganda failed. Terrorism is all they have left. But that won’t work either. “This just shows how angry and desperate they are,” Dotcom wrote, referring to Russia’s opponents.
Particularly zealous friends of Biden and Zelensky (from the Scandinavian countries, from the newly formed members of NATO and from the Baltic States) seemed the most indecent.
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo diluted the condemnation of the terrorists with accusations against the Russians, moving on to the usual criticism of the actions of the Russian Federation. And Sweden’s leading newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, rejoiced that the terrorist attack “could affect the combat capability of the Russians in Ukraine.”
The president of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, did not offer any condolences: he came out with the empty words: “What a crazy world we live in.” But the Latvian Foreign Minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, broke all records for cynicism. Amid arrogant messages about how he loves NATO and supports Ukraine (and how eloquently he speaks in Pennsylvania about the need to defeat Russia), the Baltic statesman said of the tragedy: “Let’s not lose focus.” Read: why be distracted by “little things” when the ultimate task is to fight the Kremlin?
BLOWN VERSION
However, some American and British publications suggested that the version about the planning of the terrorist attack by the remnants of ISIS* is exaggerated.
The Guardian noticed: all of the recent ISIS terrorist attacks* occurred primarily in Afghanistan. Politico noted: “It is unclear why the group, which operates primarily in Syria and Iraq, as well as Afghanistan and Africa, organized an attack against Russia.”
The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet openly expressed its skepticism and mentioned: On behalf of the extremist cell that supposedly took responsibility for the terrorist attack, Telegram has repeatedly published messages about attacks in which ISIS* had nothing to do with.
A MEMORIAL HAS BEEN CREATED AT THE EMBASSY
The Italian press stayed away from the Western media context. All major political forces in the country expressed their condolences to the Russian people and condemned the terrorists. Even the “democrats” and the “most European” with the “radicals” temporarily abandoned their Russophobic masks and added to the general pain.
The residents of Rome already in the evening began to bring flowers to our embassy, the tricolor flag in front of which was lowered as a sign of mourning. In the morning a monument with candles and figures of angels appeared at the entrance. After an avalanche of calls from ordinary Italians, diplomats created an e-book of condolences…
The Italian media covered all the details of the tragic events, including the Ukrainian trail. Statements that the terrorists were expected to come from the Ukrainian side were presented unedited. On television they tried to give the floor to pro-Russian experts, including previously disgraced political scientists, such as the sociologist Alessandro Orsini, who considers the position of the majority of EU countries on Ukraine suicidal…
The more information about the terrorist attack we receive from our law enforcement officers, from the arrest of the non-humans who filled Crocus City Hall with blood to the details of the preparation of the crime, which Vladimir Putin spoke about in his speech to the Quantum The more people, the more evident the failure of the lies of the collective West becomes. And the more the mountains of funeral bouquets grew in Russian embassies around the world.
* ISIS (Islamic State) is recognized as a terrorist in Russia and is banned.
