Case by painful case, in a long article published in Izvestia on July 18, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavov reviewed how the U.S.-U.K. NATO apparat has sought to run the world by fakery since the end of the Cold War. The first historical case cited in his “Staged Incidents as the Western Approach to Doing Politics,” is the 1999 finding of “several dozen corpses dressed in civilian clothes” in a village in the then-Serbian Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. An OSCE mission arrives, headed by an American, and declares it “an act of genocide.” NATO immediately bombed Yugoslavia, “intentionally destroying a television center, bridges, passenger trains and other civilian targets. Later, it was proved with conclusive evidence that the dead bodies were not civilians, but militants of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an illegal armed group, dressed in civilian clothes. But by that time the staged incident has already taken its toll.” NATO bombed Serbia and its civilian infrastructure, and “separating Kosovo from Serbia by force and setting up Camp Bondsteel, the largest US military base in the Balkans, were the main outcomes of the aggression.”
Among other cases: Colin Powell’s “white powder” stunt led to the bombing of Iraq, which is still struggling to recover its statehood. The 2011 war on Libya was not started by such direct lies, but another form of fraud, the gross distortion of the UNSC resolution; today “nothing remains of Libya’s statehood.” Similarly, the February 2014 German, French, Polish gambit to force Ukraine’s Victor Yanukovich to sign an agreement with the opposition led immediately to the Maidan coup backed by the West. So, too, the Minsk Package was “yet another fake,” as Petyr Poroshencko bragged on June 17, 2022: `The Minsk Agreements did not mean anything to us, and we had no intention to carry them out… our goal was to remove the threat we faced… and win time in order to restore economic growth and rebuild the armed forces. We achieved this goal. Mission accomplished for the Minsk Agreements’.”
