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TEHRAN, March 17 - While the probe into the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal is still ongoing and no tangible results have been presented, the West seems desperate to put all the blame on Russia. And the arguments have become increasingly notable.
TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) -While the probe into the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal is still ongoing and no tangible results have been presented, the West seems desperate to put all the blame on Russia. And the arguments have become increasingly notable.
It all started when the British Prime Minister Theresa May said that it was “highly likely that Russia was responsible” for the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
Her statement, which presented an assumption as some sort of proof of Moscow’s alleged culpability in the high-profile case, seems to have opened a Pandora's box of increasingly bizarre arguments that the British officials, as well as London’s allies in the West, came up with in an attempt to convince the world of Russia’s guilt.
Almost immediately, Washington decided to endorse its “special partners” in London by parroting their dubious argument and said that Moscow is “likely responsible.” US President Donald Trump then apparently decided to throw his weight behind these accusations also, saying that “it looks like” no one other than Russian President Vladimir Putin could have been behind the attack.
The idea that Russia was “likely” behind the Skripal poisoning appeared to be a tenacious argument in the West’s whole line of reasoning, and it was soon adopted by other European officials as well. The leaders of France, Germany, the US and the UK even issued a joint statement, which reiterated that “it was highly likely that Russia was responsible for the attack.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also joined the chorus of Western officials who are sure that Russia was culpable in the Skripal case. She also apparently found the “likelihood” that Russia was involved in the incident quite convincing. The German chancellor went to extraordinary lengths and said that the chance the traces will lead to Russia is “highly likely,” twice in one day – during her joint press conferences with the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and the French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday.
However, the West apparently grew weary of such “flawless” reasoning and decided to come up with even more far-fetched arguments to blame Moscow. Macron, for example, said Russia must be responsible for poisoning the former double agent because “there is no other plausible explanation.”
Source:RT
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