This article was originally published by Moss Robeson's Ukes, Kooks and Spooks blog and lightly edited by The Grayzone. Read part one of Robeson's series on Azov's US tour here. This September, a delegation of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi-led Azov.
International Disinfo Machines Turning After State-Sponsored Kidnapping of Belarusian Journalist Posted on
On May 24 2021, in the hours and days after Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich was taken from a Ryanair flight that had been rediverted to Minsk and arrested along with his girlfriend, graduate student Sofia Sapega, in a dramatic state-sponsored kidnapping, a curious phenomenon began to appear: English-language social media accounts suddenly began offering opinions and commentary on his activities and scraping together a very particular narrative.
The incident itself, which involved the Belarusian government calling in a fake bomb threat to force the plane to divert in Minsk, is part of an alarming new trend of transnational surveillance and repression that is being used to silence dissent among critics all over the world:
Surprise! Turns out the West and its vassals long ago set the standard for forcing airliners down when it suits their designs. Unprecedented? Nyet!
Hybrid war asset Roman Protasevich, a U.S. trained and financed regime operator who tried to violently overthrow the government of Belarus to then install a neoliberal U.S. client regime . Protasevich is now on his way to canonization by the Western press. The quickest path from obscurity to global fame.
On yesterday s threat Petri Krohn wrote of:
Last summer Ukraine s security service SBU tried to play a dirty trick on Lukashenko. Russian volunteers, who had fought on the Novorossiyan side in the Ukrainian civil war were made a fake job offer, security work on Syrian oil fields. The Wagnerites (as private military contractors are called in Russia) were to gather in Minsk. A Turkish airways flight would then take them to Syria.
Lukashenko s Revenge (Served Cold)
On yesterday s threat Petri Krohn wrote of:
LUKASHENKO S REVENGE (Best served cold)
Last summer Ukraine s security service SBU tried to play dirty trick on Lukashenko. Russian volunteers, who had fought on the Novorossiyan side in the Ukrainian civil war were made a fake job offer, security work on Syrian oil fields. The Wagnerites (as private military contractors are called in Russia) were to gather in Minsk. A Turkish airways flight would then take them to Syria.
SBU s secret plan was to intercept the Turkish plane while in Ukrainian airspace, force it to land and arrest the terrorists . Something went wrong. Plan B was to claim the mercenaries had been sent by Russia and Putin to stage a coup against Lukashenko. The Belarusians in fact believed this lie for a week.