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Disinfo: The West is morally decaying

Summary

The Russian President once again surprises the world with the quality of his political vision based on accurate knowledge of contemporary history and the inclusion of morality in his political approach and his outlook for the future. This takes place while western leaderships are plunged into lies, fallacies, and arrogance resulting from the moral decay of the entire system in Western countries while at the same time pretending to be a model of progress and advancement. For them, obscenities have become “frankness”, lies have become “cunningness”, folly has become “creativity”, and corruption “savvy”!

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This message is in line with a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about the West's moral decay aimed at portraying Russia as morally superior to the West.

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Katehon - Arabic (Archived)
Al-Binaa (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 204
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 24/06/2020
  • Language/target audience: Arabic
  • Country: Russia
  • Keywords: West, Western values

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MH17 wasn’t hit by a BUK missile, the Netherlands politicised the case

An expert pointed to facts that exclude a missile from hitting flight MH17.

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has been investigating for many years the circumstances of the crash of the Malaysian Boeing Flight MH17, that crashed in the Donbas in 2014. However, despite the wide resonance of this tragedy and the international support of the investigation, the Netherlands still has not been able to compile an objective picture of the disaster, preferring to fit the facts under the anti-Russian version of this clearly politicised case.

This is a reason for the technical expert Yuri Antipov to engage in an independent investigation to establish the true cause of the crash. On his Facebook page, the expert cited a selection of photo reports depicting individual elements of the destroyed Boeing, contradicting the main version of JIT, who have been imposing the version of the mythical “BUK” on the whole world for six years.

June 24, 2020
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the MH17 crash, aiming to undermine the Joint International Investigation and subsequent criminal trial.

There years ago, this same Russian 'independent expert', Yuriy Antipov, claimed that MH-17 crashed because of an explosion on board. He claimed that a bomb was planted on the aeroplane in the Netherlands. Also, in 2017, Antipov said that a BUK missile system, shown on videos by the Investigation Team (JIT), was brought there by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine shot down MH17 instead of Putin’s plane

In July 2014, the Ukrainian Army was planning to shoot down the plane President Vladimir Putin was travelling in, but they failed and shot down MH17 instead.

June 24, 2020
Disproof

Recurring Russian disinformation about the crash of MH17, suggesting that Ukrainian forces were responsible for shooting down the plane whilst attempting to assassinate Vladmir Putin.

There is no proof that Ukraine wanted to shoot down Vladimir Putin's plane. Moreover, the results of the investigation of the Joint Investigation Team are clear: flight MH17 was shot down by a missile from the 9M38 series, which was launched by the BUK TELAR system. The system was transported from the Russian Federation to an agricultural field near the city of Pervomaiskiy in eastern Ukraine, from where the rocket was launched. After firing, the system with one missing missile returned to the Russian Federation. On May 24 2018, JIT announced in its conclusion that the Buk belongs to the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces in Kursk, Russian Federation. The public hearing on the incident started on 9 March 2020 in the Netherlands.

The Munich agreement began World War II

The West is engaged in historical revisionism. The historical truth is that the start of the war was not because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which the Western establishment likes to mention, but because of completely different documents. Do not forget that it was the Munich conspiracy that culminated in the policy of appeasing the aggressor and opened the way to WWII.

June 24, 2020
Disproof

This is a pro-Kremlin narrative which is itself a clear case of historical revisionism about the WWII and the Munich Agreement.

The Munich Agreement (September 30, 1938), indeed, permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. The policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler was heavily criticized in Europe and proved to be a disastrous move. World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on 3 September.