Creative Award Goes to Moscow

You have to give it to Moscow for creative news.  They are now saying that the chemical weapons used in Syria were not dropped by the SU-23 the locals saw flying to the target.  It was local terrorists, probably the same ones siding with the United States, who got hold of chemical weapons and used them on their enemies.  By that story line, the Syrians and Russians who manned the base (which by all accounts had chemical weapons stored there which were ignored in the Tomahawk strike by the US) were victims the same as those poor people who were suffocated with what was probably Sarin gas.  This is a great story.

Although it probably is not true, it has all the elements of the Russian propaganda machine that supplies narratives that fit the Russian stories for world events.  The Ukraines shot down that commercial airliner thinking it was Vladimir Putin's airplane.  That was most eleaborate because it was communicated from a "Command Center" that looked like it had been opened the day before and had the world's worst graphics.  That was such an incredible story that nobody - not even the Russian public - believed it.  This story or chemical weapons is a little more credible and will certainly have "video proof" to follow.

The Russians seem to believe that the public will believe anything they see in print or on TV.  That isn't even true in Russia, let alone in other parts of the world where people speak Russian.  But, the strategy is to tell the same story over and over, funneled through their own television and print outlets, and hope for the best one to get some traction.  Yes, if this story doesn't work, they will just make up some more until they get a good one.  Truth has nothing to do with this process.  It treats all citizens of the world as idiots.  I certainly hope their are wrong.