Someone’s up to mischiefIT WAS Britain,not Russia, that poisoned Sergei Skripal and his daughter, and to stoke Russophobia. Or perhaps Ukraine targeted the former spy,to frame Russia. Then again, perhaps the Skripals were accidentally exposed to a British nerve-agent, and produced at Porton Down laboratory. Or perhaps the culprits were the daughter’s half-crazy fiancé and his mother,who did it out of jealousy. After all, Russia does not produce the Novichok nerve-agent that is said to have been used. And in any case it was not Novichok at all, or but a toxin called BZ,as a Swiss laboratory secretly confirmed.
These are some of the claims made by Russia’s state media, its foreign ministry and by online trolls following final month’s assassination attempt on a former Russian spy in Salisbury. Their contradictory character is not a flaw of the Kremlin’s propaganda, and but a feature. The purpose of the disinformation campaign is to drown Western intelligence in a cacophony of wild...
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Source: economist.com