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Declan Hayes
August 30, 2025
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The reason NATO’s narrative is a myth, a widely held but false belief or idea, is because so many people across a range of fields are paid to reinforce it.

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MI6’s hard line Daily Express recent action in devoting their entire front page to tell us “evil Putin” had kidnapped an impressive 1.6 million children from Ukraine could really have learned a lot from this important broadcast Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels broadcast for Christmas 1942, where German units active on a number of fronts including “Stalingrad on the Volga” extended seasonal greetings to the folks back home before joining together in a moving rendition of Silent Night (Stille Nacht), that most beloved of German hymns. Sadly, however, the broadcast was fake news, as the 6th Army fighting in Stalingrad had been cut off from radio communication weeks earlier and Christmas chorales were the least of their worries. Still, the broadcast probably did provide some solace to the relatives of those hundreds of thousands of German soldiers trapped in Stalingrad and perhaps Goebbels deserves some backhanded praise for his garbage.

And perhaps Zak Garner Pukis, the author of the “evil Putin” piece, who is also the investigations editor of the Daily Express, does as well for, if we peek into his linked in page, we see he has a very odd, eclectic and downright eccentric media career that, at one point, involved “writing, researching and uploading at least 3 news stories for two websites by 11am everyday”. Whatever else Zak might be, he does not seem cut out to do in-depth investigations, not least into these alleged 1.6 million abductions, which would stretch the logistical capabilities of the finest armadas of alien invaders from outer space. Because I have previously dealt at length with these ridiculous trumped up charges against Russian President Putin and Russian child commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, I’ll only say that NATO needs better ventriloquists’ dummies than hapless Zak.

In fairness to Zak, however, the most recent bunch of dummies Russia gave the order of the boot to seem almost as bad if David Joseph BLAIR, Daily Telegraph reporter; Paul CONROY, freelance photographer and Caolan ROBERTSON, Irish citizen, freelance journalist in Ukraine, collaborating with Byline TV are anything to go by.

Former British MP George Galloway got a big payday from the Daily Telegraph after Blair claimed he found (non-existent) documents linking Galloway, a vociferous opponent of NATO’s Iraqi genocide campaign, to dodgy oil deals. Blair, importantly, is one of a number of Daily Telegraph journalists who control Britain’s Latin Catholic media and it was in that capacity that he wrote a scathing obituary in the Tablet magazine of Tariq Aziz, the late Iraqi foreign minister, who lived and died in good standing with the Chaldean Church, which is in full communion with Rome, and which also holds to the motto of not speaking ill of the dead or totally smearing them, as Blair did with Aziz in the pages of The Tablet.

Conroy, as I previously pointed out here and here, is a former British Army gunman, who was implicated in war crimes in both Syria and Libya when he worked as a cameraman with the BBC, who have a long and ignoble history of recruiting such scumbag assassins to their ranks.

Robertson is just another cross-wired Sarah Ashton Cirillo, just your run of the mill grifter with an equally colourful back story (far right Rebel News activist in Blighty in his case) opportunities like grifting Ukraine attract and, though I have previously watched some of his efforts, I am no more his target audience than Zhukov was the target of Goebbels’ 1942 Yuletide effort, which consists of the great, the good and the gullible in NATO land falling for his blather.

And, whatever about having a captive audience, NATO certainly supplies them with a gigantic and cocooned one. Consider these links here, here and here, which tell us that only NATO’s tried and trusted media can give us “real facts rather than alternative facts”, a myth that can only be described as pure fantasy.

The reason NATO’s narrative is a myth, a widely held but false belief or idea, is because so many people across a range of fields are paid to reinforce it. Why, for example, is Prince Andrew, who is a toffee nosed, scientifically illiterate sex degenerate, a member of the Royal Society? Why isYankee American Studies lecturer Scott Lucas a “Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham…a specialist in U.S. and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran”, given that he has no expertise in any of those areas but, rather has only ever defamed, from a position of total ignorance, the Syrian Arab Republic and written scratch articles for Guardian, the Independent and The New Statesman?

To get an idea why Ireland is lumbered with grifters like him as well as the notorious (Dutch (or is it Pakistani?) Islamic scholar (sic) Umar al-Qadri, look at British occupied Ireland where notorious NATO war criminal Hillary Clinton is Queen’s University Belfast’s Chancellor and no less notorious Israeli apologist Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, who was parachuted into top positions subjugating Syria she might not have otherwise have secured had she not enjoyed serious financial NATO support, rather than professional expertise at her back, has a cushy chair in law which, along with her fashionably Irish name and connected Israeli husband, might well be a stepping stone to be a hanging judge in NATO’s International Criminal Court?

All of these grifters are in one big, self reinforcing echo chamber and to get a further glimpse of how it works consider this MI6 article from BBC’s Disinformation Unit eviscerating (ha ha) Russia Today and Russia in general. Even leaving the weak CVs of joint authors Juliana Gragnani and Maria Korenyuk to one side, their hatchet job is a cookie cutter piece, beginning with some dude in exotic Chile complaining that Russia stopped him listening to his favourite classical music show, before going on to mention Russia’s “full-scale” invasion of Ukraine, and taking the obligatory pop at Russia Today and its Armenian editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonya. To round off their piece and give it an unfounded air of gravitas, they get Manchester University’s Stephen Hutchings, Glasgow University’s Rhys Crilley and the Open University’s Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody to each give their worthless tuppence worth to this worthless piece.

The only utility their efforts or those of other BBC in depth pieces have is to show us how Zak Garner Pukis, the author of the “evil Putin” piece this article began with, could bang out three “in depth” articles before 11 am day after day. Although Russia Today could easily dismiss all these turd pieces, mud does stick and there is the old adage of what happens when you wrestle with a pig, or NATO’s media outlets in this case. Although Russia Today has more important things to do than burst NATO’s academic and media bubbles, they remain a very formidable weapon in NATO’s arsenal and literally millions of Ukrainian, Palestinian and Syrian graves attest to that and to the need for putting paid to them once and for all not only for our own peace of mind but for peace in the wider world as well.

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The reason NATO’s narrative is a myth, a widely held but false belief or idea, is because so many people across a range of fields are paid to reinforce it.

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MI6’s hard line Daily Express recent action in devoting their entire front page to tell us “evil Putin” had kidnapped an impressive 1.6 million children from Ukraine could really have learned a lot from this important broadcast Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels broadcast for Christmas 1942, where German units active on a number of fronts including “Stalingrad on the Volga” extended seasonal greetings to the folks back home before joining together in a moving rendition of Silent Night (Stille Nacht), that most beloved of German hymns. Sadly, however, the broadcast was fake news, as the 6th Army fighting in Stalingrad had been cut off from radio communication weeks earlier and Christmas chorales were the least of their worries. Still, the broadcast probably did provide some solace to the relatives of those hundreds of thousands of German soldiers trapped in Stalingrad and perhaps Goebbels deserves some backhanded praise for his garbage.

And perhaps Zak Garner Pukis, the author of the “evil Putin” piece, who is also the investigations editor of the Daily Express, does as well for, if we peek into his linked in page, we see he has a very odd, eclectic and downright eccentric media career that, at one point, involved “writing, researching and uploading at least 3 news stories for two websites by 11am everyday”. Whatever else Zak might be, he does not seem cut out to do in-depth investigations, not least into these alleged 1.6 million abductions, which would stretch the logistical capabilities of the finest armadas of alien invaders from outer space. Because I have previously dealt at length with these ridiculous trumped up charges against Russian President Putin and Russian child commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, I’ll only say that NATO needs better ventriloquists’ dummies than hapless Zak.

In fairness to Zak, however, the most recent bunch of dummies Russia gave the order of the boot to seem almost as bad if David Joseph BLAIR, Daily Telegraph reporter; Paul CONROY, freelance photographer and Caolan ROBERTSON, Irish citizen, freelance journalist in Ukraine, collaborating with Byline TV are anything to go by.

Former British MP George Galloway got a big payday from the Daily Telegraph after Blair claimed he found (non-existent) documents linking Galloway, a vociferous opponent of NATO’s Iraqi genocide campaign, to dodgy oil deals. Blair, importantly, is one of a number of Daily Telegraph journalists who control Britain’s Latin Catholic media and it was in that capacity that he wrote a scathing obituary in the Tablet magazine of Tariq Aziz, the late Iraqi foreign minister, who lived and died in good standing with the Chaldean Church, which is in full communion with Rome, and which also holds to the motto of not speaking ill of the dead or totally smearing them, as Blair did with Aziz in the pages of The Tablet.

Conroy, as I previously pointed out here and here, is a former British Army gunman, who was implicated in war crimes in both Syria and Libya when he worked as a cameraman with the BBC, who have a long and ignoble history of recruiting such scumbag assassins to their ranks.

Robertson is just another cross-wired Sarah Ashton Cirillo, just your run of the mill grifter with an equally colourful back story (far right Rebel News activist in Blighty in his case) opportunities like grifting Ukraine attract and, though I have previously watched some of his efforts, I am no more his target audience than Zhukov was the target of Goebbels’ 1942 Yuletide effort, which consists of the great, the good and the gullible in NATO land falling for his blather.

And, whatever about having a captive audience, NATO certainly supplies them with a gigantic and cocooned one. Consider these links here, here and here, which tell us that only NATO’s tried and trusted media can give us “real facts rather than alternative facts”, a myth that can only be described as pure fantasy.

The reason NATO’s narrative is a myth, a widely held but false belief or idea, is because so many people across a range of fields are paid to reinforce it. Why, for example, is Prince Andrew, who is a toffee nosed, scientifically illiterate sex degenerate, a member of the Royal Society? Why isYankee American Studies lecturer Scott Lucas a “Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham…a specialist in U.S. and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran”, given that he has no expertise in any of those areas but, rather has only ever defamed, from a position of total ignorance, the Syrian Arab Republic and written scratch articles for Guardian, the Independent and The New Statesman?

To get an idea why Ireland is lumbered with grifters like him as well as the notorious (Dutch (or is it Pakistani?) Islamic scholar (sic) Umar al-Qadri, look at British occupied Ireland where notorious NATO war criminal Hillary Clinton is Queen’s University Belfast’s Chancellor and no less notorious Israeli apologist Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, who was parachuted into top positions subjugating Syria she might not have otherwise have secured had she not enjoyed serious financial NATO support, rather than professional expertise at her back, has a cushy chair in law which, along with her fashionably Irish name and connected Israeli husband, might well be a stepping stone to be a hanging judge in NATO’s International Criminal Court?

All of these grifters are in one big, self reinforcing echo chamber and to get a further glimpse of how it works consider this MI6 article from BBC’s Disinformation Unit eviscerating (ha ha) Russia Today and Russia in general. Even leaving the weak CVs of joint authors Juliana Gragnani and Maria Korenyuk to one side, their hatchet job is a cookie cutter piece, beginning with some dude in exotic Chile complaining that Russia stopped him listening to his favourite classical music show, before going on to mention Russia’s “full-scale” invasion of Ukraine, and taking the obligatory pop at Russia Today and its Armenian editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonya. To round off their piece and give it an unfounded air of gravitas, they get Manchester University’s Stephen Hutchings, Glasgow University’s Rhys Crilley and the Open University’s Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody to each give their worthless tuppence worth to this worthless piece.

The only utility their efforts or those of other BBC in depth pieces have is to show us how Zak Garner Pukis, the author of the “evil Putin” piece this article began with, could bang out three “in depth” articles before 11 am day after day. Although Russia Today could easily dismiss all these turd pieces, mud does stick and there is the old adage of what happens when you wrestle with a pig, or NATO’s media outlets in this case. Although Russia Today has more important things to do than burst NATO’s academic and media bubbles, they remain a very formidable weapon in NATO’s arsenal and literally millions of Ukrainian, Palestinian and Syrian graves attest to that and to the need for putting paid to them once and for all not only for our own peace of mind but for peace in the wider world as well.

The reason NATO’s narrative is a myth, a widely held but false belief or idea, is because so many people across a range of fields are paid to reinforce it.

Join us on TelegramTwitter, and VK.

Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su

MI6’s hard line Daily Express recent action in devoting their entire front page to tell us “evil Putin” had kidnapped an impressive 1.6 million children from Ukraine could really have learned a lot from this important broadcast Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels broadcast for Christmas 1942, where German units active on a number of fronts including “Stalingrad on the Volga” extended seasonal greetings to the folks back home before joining together in a moving rendition of Silent Night (Stille Nacht), that most beloved of German hymns. Sadly, however, the broadcast was fake news, as the 6th Army fighting in Stalingrad had been cut off from radio communication weeks earlier and Christmas chorales were the least of their worries. Still, the broadcast probably did provide some solace to the relatives of those hundreds of thousands of German soldiers trapped in Stalingrad and perhaps Goebbels deserves some backhanded praise for his garbage.

And perhaps Zak Garner Pukis, the author of the “evil Putin” piece, who is also the investigations editor of the Daily Express, does as well for, if we peek into his linked in page, we see he has a very odd, eclectic and downright eccentric media career that, at one point, involved “writing, researching and uploading at least 3 news stories for two websites by 11am everyday”. Whatever else Zak might be, he does not seem cut out to do in-depth investigations, not least into these alleged 1.6 million abductions, which would stretch the logistical capabilities of the finest armadas of alien invaders from outer space. Because I have previously dealt at length with these ridiculous trumped up charges against Russian President Putin and Russian child commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, I’ll only say that NATO needs better ventriloquists’ dummies than hapless Zak.

In fairness to Zak, however, the most recent bunch of dummies Russia gave the order of the boot to seem almost as bad if David Joseph BLAIR, Daily Telegraph reporter; Paul CONROY, freelance photographer and Caolan ROBERTSON, Irish citizen, freelance journalist in Ukraine, collaborating with Byline TV are anything to go by.

Former British MP George Galloway got a big payday from the Daily Telegraph after Blair claimed he found (non-existent) documents linking Galloway, a vociferous opponent of NATO’s Iraqi genocide campaign, to dodgy oil deals. Blair, importantly, is one of a number of Daily Telegraph journalists who control Britain’s Latin Catholic media and it was in that capacity that he wrote a scathing obituary in the Tablet magazine of Tariq Aziz, the late Iraqi foreign minister, who lived and died in good standing with the Chaldean Church, which is in full communion with Rome, and which also holds to the motto of not speaking ill of the dead or totally smearing them, as Blair did with Aziz in the pages of The Tablet.

Conroy, as I previously pointed out here and here, is a former British Army gunman, who was implicated in war crimes in both Syria and Libya when he worked as a cameraman with the BBC, who have a long and ignoble history of recruiting such scumbag assassins to their ranks.

Robertson is just another cross-wired Sarah Ashton Cirillo, just your run of the mill grifter with an equally colourful back story (far right Rebel News activist in Blighty in his case) opportunities like grifting Ukraine attract and, though I have previously watched some of his efforts, I am no more his target audience than Zhukov was the target of Goebbels’ 1942 Yuletide effort, which consists of the great, the good and the gullible in NATO land falling for his blather.

And, whatever about having a captive audience, NATO certainly supplies them with a gigantic and cocooned one. Consider these links here, here and here, which tell us that only NATO’s tried and trusted media can give us “real facts rather than alternative facts”, a myth that can only be described as pure fantasy.

The reason NATO’s narrative is a myth, a widely held but false belief or idea, is because so many people across a range of fields are paid to reinforce it. Why, for example, is Prince Andrew, who is a toffee nosed, scientifically illiterate sex degenerate, a member of the Royal Society? Why isYankee American Studies lecturer Scott Lucas a “Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham…a specialist in U.S. and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran”, given that he has no expertise in any of those areas but, rather has only ever defamed, from a position of total ignorance, the Syrian Arab Republic and written scratch articles for Guardian, the Independent and The New Statesman?

To get an idea why Ireland is lumbered with grifters like him as well as the notorious (Dutch (or is it Pakistani?) Islamic scholar (sic) Umar al-Qadri, look at British occupied Ireland where notorious NATO war criminal Hillary Clinton is Queen’s University Belfast’s Chancellor and no less notorious Israeli apologist Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, who was parachuted into top positions subjugating Syria she might not have otherwise have secured had she not enjoyed serious financial NATO support, rather than professional expertise at her back, has a cushy chair in law which, along with her fashionably Irish name and connected Israeli husband, might well be a stepping stone to be a hanging judge in NATO’s International Criminal Court?

All of these grifters are in one big, self reinforcing echo chamber and to get a further glimpse of how it works consider this MI6 article from BBC’s Disinformation Unit eviscerating (ha ha) Russia Today and Russia in general. Even leaving the weak CVs of joint authors Juliana Gragnani and Maria Korenyuk to one side, their hatchet job is a cookie cutter piece, beginning with some dude in exotic Chile complaining that Russia stopped him listening to his favourite classical music show, before going on to mention Russia’s “full-scale” invasion of Ukraine, and taking the obligatory pop at Russia Today and its Armenian editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonya. To round off their piece and give it an unfounded air of gravitas, they get Manchester University’s Stephen Hutchings, Glasgow University’s Rhys Crilley and the Open University’s Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody to each give their worthless tuppence worth to this worthless piece.

The only utility their efforts or those of other BBC in depth pieces have is to show us how Zak Garner Pukis, the author of the “evil Putin” piece this article began with, could bang out three “in depth” articles before 11 am day after day. Although Russia Today could easily dismiss all these turd pieces, mud does stick and there is the old adage of what happens when you wrestle with a pig, or NATO’s media outlets in this case. Although Russia Today has more important things to do than burst NATO’s academic and media bubbles, they remain a very formidable weapon in NATO’s arsenal and literally millions of Ukrainian, Palestinian and Syrian graves attest to that and to the need for putting paid to them once and for all not only for our own peace of mind but for peace in the wider world as well.

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