Skripal @ Seven
Kit Knightly
Today is seven years since the Skripal Psy-op was launched and for the first time in a little while it’s being mentioned with a little renewed vigor by mainstream pundits, because anti-Russia paranoia is suddenly de rigueur again.
There’s nothing to say about the Skripal “poisoning” that we hasn’t been said before – either by us by the other writers and outlets who have done excellent, in depth coverage over the years.
Our own top four, in no order:
1. Joining Some Dots on the Skripal Case Part 1: An Official Story That Doesn’t Hold Water
Part one of an excellent multi-part series by Rob Slane of The Blogmire
Joining Some Dots on the Skripal Case Part 1: An Official Story That Doesn’t Hold Water
2. The Skripal event and the Douma “gas attack” – two acts in the same drama?
Catte Black’s analysis of the Skripal poisoning in the context of geopolitics and the false flag “gas attack” in Douma just days later.
The Skripal event and the Douma “gas attack” – two acts in the same drama?
3. 5 Facts BBC’s “The Salisbury Poisonings” Forgot to Mention
A breakdown of the pitiful BBC “docu drama” made in 2020, written by yours truly.
4. The Skripal Case 5 Years On: BS then, BS now
Yes, yes…me again. But it’s my website. Shut up.
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In closing I would simply emphasise how mad the story is and always has been. It is founded entirely upon madness. Nothing about it ever made any sense.
The “deadliest nerve agent ever invented” never once behaved like a deadly nerve agent:
- It did not kill anyone in the neighbourhood in which it was allegedly released.
- It did not kill anyone in the hotel the “assassins” stayed at.
- It did not kill any police officers either guarding or searching the Skripal’s home.
- It did not kill any customers or staff at the restaurants or pubs allegedly frequented by the Skripal’s after exposure.
- It did not kill ANYONE, ANYWHERE on the day or in the town it was supposedly used.
Alongside that, the “Russian assassins” never once behaved like Russian assassins:
- They flew direct from Moscow to London.
- …using Russian passports…
- …which they had already used before.
- They (allegedly) left important evidence in a charity bin.
- They made no attempt to ensure their target had been killed before leaving the area or indeed the country.
Compounding this we have a tangle of crazy miscellanea:
- The first person the scene was the Chief Nursing Officer of the British Army.
- It took place right after the Toxic Dagger chemical weapons training exercise.
- Despite Skripal being a high profile intelligence asset, living in a home paid for by MI6, there was apparently no surveillance of the property, since no evidence the “Russian assassins” were ever anywhere close to the house has ever been released.
- Sergei Skripal’s next door neighbour was his MI6 handler Pablo Miller, whose house was also not being monitored and who was the subject of a government issued censorship notice within days of the “attack”.
- Sergei Skripal has never once been seen in public again, not even to testify about the “attack”. His daughter Julia has given one interview, where she looked like she’d been on a spa break, not in intensive care.
Like we said, madness.
In short, as we wrote on Twitter, the only reason it isn’t the most ridiculous nonsense ever foisted on a gullible public is that the world got incredibly weird in the following seven years.
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This is not totally on topic. It concerns my conversation with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat fame after his outfit found that Sergey Fedotov, the third man and organiser of the attack on the Skripals, was indeed Denis Sergeyev, a former Dagestan War captain. As with most of Bellingcat’s stuff it holds water like a collander.
https://johnplatinumgoss.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/the-third-man-bellingcat-not-fit-for-purpose/
Shouldn’t that be 3?
Surely Putin’s ‘Checkmate Move’ started some yrs before, causing consternation in the West, particularly in Uncle Sams underpants
The move, completed late in the yr before the alleged Skripals poisonings, announced on RT, with OPCW declaring that Russia was now free of Chemical Weapons.
Surely, that caused some ab-dabs/melt downs in the West and is very much related?
Slightly OT: I once read somewhere that Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6 man who (in)famously put together the ‘Steele Dossier’ for Hillary Clinton, alleging that Putin had piss-tapes of Donald Trump, had once worked under Pablo Miller back when they were both with the Ministry Intelligence. Small world …
U.k column , Tim cast, Alex jones, Tucker Calson, Tate brothers, James o keefe, Kate Hopkins, Heath Ranger, Ray McGovern is “ex-CIA” Scott Ritter is “ex-UN”.
Paul Craig Roberts is “ex-White House”. Craig Murray is “ex-Foreign Office”Catherine Austin Fitts investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing.
I could go on all day.
Ministry Intelligence. Small world …most of the alt media is that.
Did anyone else notice how similar the Kate Middleton video was to the Julia Skripal video? They appeared to be filmed in the same leafy, nondescript garden using the same lighting and camera equipment with the same focus blurring the background slightly. They even seemed to talk in a similar manner as if they had been coached exactly what to say and how.
It struck me as soon as I started watching the Kate Middleton video. I bet the same production crew filmed both videos in the same setting.
At the time, some people were claiming that the Kate Middleton video was AI. Since the Skripals have, according to Kit, not been seen in public again, I’m now wondering if that video of Yulia Skripal wasn’t possibly AI.
This is an intriguing theory.
wasn’t there a case in Ukraine or somewhere sometime in the 2010s where western intelligence faked the death of some asset, attributed it to the Russians, ENLISTED THE WILLING COOPERATION of news outlets and government agencies to disseminate the completely false details of the supposed hit, and then several days on publicly admitted to playing this trick on the public? it seems the Beeb itself actually reported on this deception, but not at all critically, praising it rather as an example of cracking good cleverness by our heroic chaps in the trench coats, who thereby somehow wrongfooted ol Ivan and managed to gather valuable imsights into the opposite number’s networks
John Helmer a Journalist based in Russia for many years has a book and a full critical analysis on his website of the Skripal farrago and the recent rigged case/investigation in London with the expected Russophobic verdict.
A complete MI6 Circus clown show from beginning to end.
Where are the Skripals, alive or deaded.?
johnhelmer.org
What we non sheep have to do is accept that lying is now endemic and focus solely on protecting our own interests and sanity. I gave up trying to change closed minds in politics and the media years ago. Their jobs depend on them not facing the truth.
We can bear true witness but the weight of lies makes mainstream thought divorced from reality.
When we accept that the majority will believe lies we just focus on protecting our own circles of concern.
The EU is run by madfolk. So is the Labour Party. So are the BBC, ITV et al. We see through them, but we cannot shut them down.
The majority of Western citizens oppose Israel but criminal oligarchs and politicians Aid and abet modern genocide. We can’t kick them out because we get two votes a decade. And too many people vote for prostitutes. Guided by propaganda written by prostitutes in the MSM.
The SE of England is for those most keen to lie for preferment, blood money and appeasement of spooks.
The Ship of State rots from the top down and the middle classes of SE England are well on the way to becoming detritus…..
Well said.
As the article itself states, or strongly implies, the fate of the Skripals remains a mystery with no compelling clues to point to a solution.
But the benevolent speculation that the Skripals were rewarded for their participation in the psyop, considerately placed into a sort of “Witness Protection Program”, and relocated to some pleasant location to live happily ever after with new identities is simply preposterous.
Sergei was no spring chicken, and as a nominally retired spook might gratefully lay low during his remaining years. Yulia was relatively young. Even if she scrupulously concealed her past in her new home, the risk of being discovered unexpectedly remains. She was a loose end.
BTW, I wonder if there has been a welcome change away from certain rote “contrarian” analysis. So far, no insistence that the Skripals were decidedly crisis actors, weren’t even present in Salisbury, etc. 🤔
What if the MI6 caught them trying to redefect back to Russia and did them in, blaming the whole thing on Evil Putler (TM) as a smokescreen? If they’re dead, that would easily explain why they’ve never been seen again. As I commented above, that ridiculous video they released of Yulia in the park (‘Oil of Novichok can help you look younger, too!’) might possibly have been AI-generated, based photographs or home movies of her.
A state-sponsored assassination does not comprise two blokes. If you are Mossad, the CIA, MI6, whoever you want, you have a group probably amounting to 15-20 people, perhaps more. There will be reconnaissance units, communications units, transport units, weapons units and command units, all of whom have three teams in order to provide 24-hour coverage, on top of the hit squad itself.
Nor, if you are a top-level assassin, do you allow yourself to be imaged on every CCTV camera in southern England.
Nor do you indulge in cocaine and sex parties, as these two clowns were alleged to have done by the UK media.
Nor do you travel to make your hit by train on a Sunday morning. Jesus. “Passengers on the 7.15 Assassins’ Express service are advised that, due to engineering works near Basingstoke, this train is replaced by a bus service. We apologise for any inconvenience and wish you a pleasant onward journey”.
Then, when you get to the house, you don’t put your allegedly deadly nerve agent on a doorknob when the intended recipients have gone out, which is what was claimed happened.
Nor do you put incriminating evidence into a recycling bin.
All of the above things only happen if the yarn is being spun by the UK security services at the behest of politicians who wish to portray Russians as incompetent subhumans.
In fact, what happens when cold-blooded professionals do their work, is what happened with the walkie-talkies in Lebanon.
meanwhile in the real world covid has changed everything, all over the planet and og doesn’t appear to have notice maybe it will if they spend half a night in an ambulance and half a day in an nhs corrider in extreme abdominal pain – whilst untrained staff try to ‘help’ who knows
Respectfully, I disagree. It is because of what OG reveals, exposes, offers, questions, discusses that I know why healthcare, among other things, has turned into a shite show.
Everything has changed. I think we all can agree on that. I suppose, like all journalists and substack writers, OG has to decide what they feel is most pertinent.
I rely on commenters to fill in the anecdotal.
And if it is you that experienced the ambulatory/ER horror, my sympathy. I had many ER experiences during the early/mid 2000s. They were bad enough. But now?
I do everything I can to stay out of them. You can’t tell who is a doc and who is a maintenance worker. They are all wearing sweats and hoodies. And god forbid you ask for a cup of water.
Actually – I lie. I had a very good experience last year at the ER. From beginning to end. I was so shocked that I wrote to Hospital Human resource dept and to each of the nurses that cared for me.
But I still do everything I can to avoid.
The False Flag Operation was part of and called ‘Toxic Dagger’, not after it. Toxic Dagger started on the 20th February 2018 and ended on the 12th March 2018. The Skripal false flag part was set up before and started on the 4th March 2018. The Novichok was almost as deadly as Covid: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Toxic_Dagger
See? All those Skripals needed was a good vaccine! LOL
Just finished reading this, which is also pretty good. There are three parts.
https://propagandainfocus.com/schrodingers-novichok-12-points-from-the-dawn-sturgess-inquiry-part-1/
If you believe the Skripal story, you probably also believe that the U.S. flew people to the moon (and back!) in a rocket ship suddenly after being emphatically trounced by the Soviets for the entire space race all the way until the preceding couple of years of radio silence; then promptly misplaced every last scrap of the technology related to this miraculous breakthrough so thoroughly and universally that 5 decades later neither they, the Russians, the Chinese, nor anyone else on the planet has ever gotten anybody even close to half way to the moon again, despite all of them purporting to still be in a hotly contested space race, more consequential than ever.
If this were a movie script, even Will Farrell would reject it for being too silly. Goes to show people will literally believe anything as long as a choir of government-approved suits on TV tells them to.
The Moon landings were real enough. If you think about it the amount of effort needed to fake them and keep that fake secret for 50 years and more would be far more than actually doing the landings for real. The entire project was both very costly and very risky and turned out to be utterly pointless (apart from the national ego boost) because what we learned is that we humans aren’t built for space, don’t thrive in space and space is nothing like how science fiction writers pictured it.
I think the proof boils down to math. The only real obstacle to reaching the moon is whether you can get a craft into orbit with enough fuel to get to the moon – and back – in the required timeframe.
Either it was feasible in the 60s or it wasn’t. If it was feasible, I think it happened. If it wasn’t feasible, then someone should crunch the numbers and disprove the moon landings.
Nothing has been to ‘space’ from here,
“and keep that fake secret for 50 years”
Yeah because all the people who’ve visited the moon since would have seen there’s no flag there.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the entire Skripal affair was simply an extended State sponsored psychology experiment to see just how completely absurd a propaganda operation would have to be – before anyone dared notice – much less call it out. In that sense if clearly foreshadowed the feasibility of the State facilitating the collective idiocy of the covid years.
Coming to a landfill near GCHQ:
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/vehicles-might-contain-deadly-russian-1952283
Apparently they drove it up the M5 on the back of a normal recovery trailer, but that link seems hard to find nowadays…
“But it’s my website. Shut up.”
Love it.
Same here! 😂
This was a great summary of the Skripal nonsense. https://syrianobservatoryforhumanwrongs.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/an-idiots-guide-to-the-skripal-affair/
Putin must be maintained, like everyone who’s ever challenged the Anglo-American elite, as mad and bad. There can never be legitimate grievances, there can never be a deeper context, there can never have been sustained provocations – these enemies just wake up one morning and decde they want to rule the world out of their madness and badness.
It’s essential that Trump and his team keep re-stating the counter-narrative about the true origins of the war. Russia’s legitimate security concerns…. NATO’s breach of promise in eastward expansion…. the events of 2014…. these need constant restatement. None of this requires any belief that Putin is some sort of hero or that the BRICS are going to save the world.
Partly this is all just another chapter in the Mackinder Doctrine (keeping Russia and Germany isolated), partly it’s about increasing energy prices to immiserate Western populations, partly it’s about keeping NATO and the EU together by creating a threatening “other”. Does Russia want NATO to fall apart? Almost certainly. Are they engaging in covert actions to help towards that end? Very probably. Is this the primary cause of NATO’s troubles. No – it’s the organisation’s own conduct and here’s another example:
https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/21/romania-to-host-largest-nato-military-base-in-europe/
This is just the opening salvo in what’s going to be the bigger issue of NATO’s continued existence. If that does start to be on the table, expect false flags designed to show just how much NATO is truly essential to Western Europe.
It always felt a bit like this was another mini-project on the “subtly demonise Russia in the public mind in the run-up to the war we’re going to have” wall chart in the Evil Lizards That Run Everything propaganda dept staff room.
OT:
Palestinian boy in Gaza documentary row says BBC will be responsible if anything happens to him
Professional victim$ from small age. Works only for woke Western women.
Off topic.
China – out.
US – in.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hong-kong-firm-sells-panama-canal-stake-blackrock/5881400
A victory for Trump?
Well, it’s now Black Rock that owns the canal, not the US as a country. Make hedge funds great again!
Actually the purchaser was ‘a consortium headed by Blackrock Inc’, so Blackrock itself may not own a majority stake.
Perhaps Blackrock owns the Trump Government !
Another anti-Russia dossier that never added up: flight MH17.
Its flight plan for July 17th 2014 over eastern Ukraine, a known battle field, was approved by Eurocontrol,
Ukraine immediately blamed Russia, the bodies were still warm. The US never released their radar data. Russia was refused to be part of the inquiry committee while second suspect Ukraine was allowed to be part of it. Recently the highest Dutch court said the final reports have stay secret.
Rutte was the anti Russia pawn used. False flag 101.
The proven masters of the false flag and other means of controlling by deception are surely MOSSAD and friends. Their undercover agents even lead infamous Islamist terror groups, say some reports. So, about Oct 7th and its real villains…
More CIA & MI6 I would guess.
Why big up MOSSAD more than Israelis already do?
John Helmer I believe also gives a lot of useful analysis on this topic at his blog site Dances With Bears
It’s a ‘toss-up’ isn’t it … just who is the more phucked-in-the-head, the spooks who devise this demented-theatre, or the retards who have the audacity to take it to print/presentation in the media? … For my two-bobs worth, I reckon that they should ALL be bannished to … Epstein Island, where they would be at liberty to entertain themselves to their hearts content.
Who was the wag who said …
They lie …
We know that they lie …
They know that we know they lie … yadahh, yadaahh, yadaahhh … ?
And, the only reason that they continue to LIE is that we haven’t strung them up by the nuts yet.
Overarch this with the sheer madness of the Skripal-theatre …
I mean just think about the craziness of debating/discussing what GENOCIDE actually is … despite it happening right before our collective eyes …
Or, whether BILLIONS of $$$ of tax-payers hard-earned, should be given to a ‘newly-minted’ cocain-sniffing leprecaun frorm the recently voted most Corrupt Country in The World, i.e. the Ukrain – to realise how far we have sunk. Talk about madness … ??? We’re almost beyond the reef …
The worst part is that the insanity is been driven by those that we’re not allowed to mention, despite most sane people knowing exactly who the phuckers actually are … now if that his not a characteristic of total insanity, well then – i am definately Bobo’s uncle.
Do we avoid mentioning ‘those we’re not allowed to mention’ because we are sane or insane? I’d say rational people don’t use the J word because they know what retribution could follow, and because decades of fake history and government narrative make it almost impossible to think the unthinkable: that the cause of those who lost WW 2 was just. This conclusion follows some months of reading the revisionist historians who risk their reputations, careers and imprisonment to reveal the Holahoax. Anyone interested in challenging and unlearning official history could begin by perusing the amazing resources at codoh.com.
Ok, so you’re fine with mad authoritarianism, 1930s style, just so long as it’s aimed at Jews. Covid would have been fine, so long as it was Jews scrubbing sidewalks with toothbrushes and wearing little stars. Gotcha.
Did you know there are Chinese Jews?
We should probably just load them all into cattle cars, just to be safe.
No one can tell me what unites all the Jews (Sephardic, Khazar etc., rich and poor, secular and non secular) as the enemy of humanity, not without resorting to myth and legend and full on deifying these people. There’s some big ‘Govern me harder tatti’ vibes here, and it doesn’t need logic, apparently.
Do forgive this rhetorical question, but who do you think benefits more, in tangible terms, by declaring your views on this forum? Offg readers or the IHRA? Hmmm…
Will any of the aggressively paranoid types around here accuse you of being Mossad? Or will they leave you well alone…
I wonder.
The IHRA is the real villain here. The ADL is an honorable organization that fought discrimination wherever it found it, not just antisemitism. This was inevitably going to bring it into conflict with modern Zionism and, in particular, the State of Israel so this alternate organization was created. This has no such moral qualms — it equates Judaism with Zionism so any critique of the State of Israel or other unethical behavior by Jews is automatically antisemitic. Now antisemitism is not just known to be ‘bad’ by everyone (thanks to a lifetime of books, movies etc.) but also prohibited by law in some European countries. This has given Israel carte blanche to pursue policies that would have caused international condemnation had they been done by any other country — and they’ve squashed criticism (try calling Gaza a ‘ghetto’ in the majority of online threads and you’ll get moderated — even though it fitted the description perfectly before the uprising)(which, in both the event and response, bore an uncanny resemblance to Warsaw, 1944).
The overall effect of the IHRA is to promote antisemitism, though. There’s such a thing as ‘going for broke’ — sure, you can turf students out of school and deny them jobs if they protest on behalf of Palestinians but if you overdo it eventually people will notice.
The Ms?
Recently, when i expressed that i wasnt sold on the ‘UFO phenomena’, another
accused me of being ‘hesitant’… I was gonna retort: ‘Well, i’m not on the spectrum
like you !’ – but… Well. in the local left circle decades ago we used ‘on the spectrum’
that is, on the political spectrum, from ‘extreme left’ to ‘extreme rightwing’, and
usually we applied it to right-wingers. But in these days of Political Correctness,
misunderstanding and being offended go hand-in-hand…
Come to think of it, i’m hesitant about a lot of things; for starters, there’s that ‘Moon
Landing’, and Arabs flying planes into building in New York…
I’d say ‘Hesitancy’ is a Healthy Attitude, wouldnytyou !
Knowing when it’s still too soon to have gathered rigorous evidence is critical to resist instant proclamations of guilt/causation by Government prostitutes who lie for a living and to stay alive.
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2025-03-05. mRNA vaccine-induced AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). Must be immediately recalled (blog, gab, tweet, pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4).
The Skripal event and the Douma “gas attack” – two acts in the same drama?
Bingo.
Seven years ago… and five years ago already that the Plandemic was called out.
Ah, life just fings through your slippers.
https://i.postimg.cc/HsvvnwBQ/Life-just-fings-through-your-slippers-Michael-Leunig.webp
Miss Michael’s wisdom.
Couldn’t get an image there. Found it here:
https://www.singulart.com/en/artworks/michael-leunig–life-just-fings-through-your-slippers-2250448
Is this just a test to see how stupid we are? Feels like it. Most people failed.
https://postimg.cc/yJyD0pc5
I think they put it in the water supply.
Tis the James Bond wet dream.
The spy agencies justifying their budgets, and bored journos getting their rocks off on spy stories.
They should get real jobs.
If the spy agencies have masters with a sick globalist agenda, then suggesting that the Skripal affair was created merely to justify budgets conveniently hides the masters.
Pending. A mystery as to the keyword in this particular case…
I followed it closely on RT when it happened.
From what I recall there were clues in Yulia’s scribbled (Russian) notes before her final public oratory in that obscure unidentifiable garden. The crossings out in particular weren’t random. Dates crossed out etc. Maybe someone could ultimately piece them together.
Nevertheless, both she and her father are probably living out a quiet life somewhere on the globe. So maybe just let them get on with it…
I have no doubt that the Skripals have gone to a “better place”. I strongly doubt that that place is New Zealand, as we have been told. We will probably never find their graves, but we can be certain that we will never hear from them again.
One of the most lethal poisons ever made by hoomins, yet the
Skripals survived ! Those damn Ruskies cant get anything right !!
The first recipient of the magic elixir ?
William Shakespeare.
They rubbed our noses in it from day one.
‘Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins, That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharg’d of breath As violently as hasty powder fir’d Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.‘
Just another one of those medical coincidences:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-57234741
Can’t you read, Johnny ?
They said it was unrelated.
🤣🤣🤣
This was supposedly the first UK man to be vaccinated (it wasn’t a vaccine). The first UK recipient was Margaret Kennean (MK as in Ultra).
The alleged victim of Novichok was Charlie Rowley…. or C.Rowley.