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Though NATO’s efforts to portray Russia in general and President Putin in particular as the source of all the world’s evils never stop, let’s use a few recent examples to show why these efforts have passed their sell by date.

First off is this Vatican News report of commemorations to honour Estonia’s Catholic martyrs, a worthy cause which should be the occasion for healing but which is being used to sow rancour. In telling us that the event particularly remembers Eduard Profittlich, a German-born Jesuit missionary, who had been in charge of Catholic affairs in Estonia prior to being deported for ten years to a Siberian gulag, the Vatican fails to put the suffering of Profittlich and other German and Estonian Catholics in their proper context. This fault is compounded by giving particular emphasis to Helsinki’s Bishop Ramón Goyarrola Belda. Finland, Finnish converts like Teemu Sippo included, has been irrelevant to Catholic affairs in Estonia since the very start of the Reformation some 600 years ago and, to pretend otherwise, as this article does, can only be explained by the rabble rousing objectives of the writer.

This is not to deny that terrible things happened in Estonia during the War and nor is it to criticise Latvian Prelate Zbigņevs Stankevičs‘ decision to allow this commemoration at Estonia’s national Catholic shrine but it is to say that these commemorations of events that happened before almost all of us were born should be inclusive. In particular, in accordance with the late Pope John Paul II’s wish that Europe should breathe with both of its lungs, the Belarusian Orthodox and Catholic churches should have been jointly invited to play full and central parts in these events. If the current Pope wishes to argue that the Belarusian Orthodox Church did not suffer under both the Nazis and the Soviet Union or if the Belarusian martyrs of Nowogródek, the eleven Polish nuns the Gestapo shot by firing squad on 1 August 1943, do not deserve to be remembered along with the martyrs of Estonia, he best avoid the concerned Christians of Poland and Belarus, which suffered more than any other country, Estonia included, during the Second World War.

Estonia should really get over itself. Russian forces are not going to storm across the Narva River from their Ivangorod fortress in search of Estonian prey. And, though Russia must be concerned with Estonia donating more than 1% of its relatively tiny GDP to Zelensky, even that is small beer in the overall scam Zelensky and his cronies have going for themselves.

Not that Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is an innocent in all this. Not only has Russia issued an arrest warrant for her but Estonia should not be allowing this scandal ridden NATO pawn to use her political office to settle family grudges against modern day Russia. And nor, of course, should the Catholic Church be helping her needlessly inflame tensions with Belarus and with Russia, which has its own problems to contend with.

One of those problems is the permanent pain in the arse which is MI6’s BBC outlet. Here is this BBC report on a dystopian Russian library, which carries books by the BBC’s George Orwell, the anti-Catholic bigot who famously moonlighted as an MI6 spy. Interesting though this parochial story might be, it serves no greater purpose than as a vehicle to have a pop at Russia and to show what a venal and vindictive rag the BBC is.

But it is typical of the non-existent standards which pertain at the BBC and all other MI6 and CIA outlets. Take this recent Sunday Times nonsense that Dublin MEP Clare Daly, who is taking legal advice over it, put rogue IRA figures in touch with Russian agents in Lithuania. The facts of the matter are that the rabidly pro NATO Sunday Times wishes to shut Daly up and it wishes to smear Russia and vulnerable Russian speakers in the Baltics in particular, by linking them to other rogue players, like the dissident IRA that are likewise in their cross hairs. Not only are there similar kangaroo court cases with much the same actors working their way through the British judicial system, but I have previously written about Norma Costello and the armies of wanna be journalists on retainers to defame Daly and her fellow heretics. And, as George Galloway showed when he exposed the fake Sheikh, NATO can call on a large number of fake journalists, who are little better than harlots for hire.

Not only do we in Ireland have MI6, the CIA and Irish military intelligence breathing down our necks but France has to stick its unwanted beak in as well. Here is an account of the French secret service warning the Irish Dept of Foreign Affairs that Russia is spreading disinformation here. If the article is to be taken at face value, the Russians are concerned about the sexual freak who represented Ireland in the Eurovision contest, street fights in Dublin and how the war in Ukraine is going. As regards the last of those, I get my news on the Gazan war from following Twitter, as well as Israeli and Arab sites and I do something similar regarding Ukraine. I look at the Irish Times, if at all, only for sports results and the weather and I have no interest in what Africa’s former French masters have to say about anything that is not directly connected to wine, women or song.

And, though I check RT several times a day, it seems so too does the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), which is threatening to arrest Russian reporters for reporting on the Ukraine war. Let’s just get this right. George Clooney is a two bit Hollywood punk married to Amal Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze babe, who plays the part of a human rights’ lawyer. As I have seen that slapper wilt under cross examination, her rhetorical skills struck me as less impressive than her long legs and Gucci high heels but, hey, I am not a Hollywood casting agent and nor do I even have a casting couch.

That aside, Clooney would do well to remember Churchill’s words that “there are bitter weeds in England” and that there are quite a few in Russia too, who don’t always suffer fools like him or his imbecilic wife gladly. The acute irony of this is that these two clowns got Anna Neistat, the legal director of their foundation’s The Docket project, to muscle the EU and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to crack down on Russian journalists over what this former Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International dogsbody called “incitement to genocide” in Ukraine, something those CIA controlled groups are already complicit in in Syria. Although Neistat is hoping that the CIA can render Russian journalists when they are abroad, even an idiot like her should note that Iran’s bitter weeds have repeatedly proved that asymmetric warfare is a two way street and that bullying nuclear powers can and will have unforeseen consequences.