The British working for Putin on the MH17

The BBC programme about the downing of the Boeing Malaysia in the sky of Ukraine is yet to be aired, but the disinformation machine is already at work. This time British “friends” of Putin will take care of it.

The Sunday Express article is almost gone unnoticed. Actually like almost all of its articles. But the news that the BBC had to issue a defense spread the world.
Here’s how the story goes. The largest news network in the world is going to broadcast a documentary about the downing of the MH17 flight in the skies of Donbass, almost two years ago. The BBC claims its hour-long documentary will analyze all theories on the disaster, none excluded. From the Russian Buk anti-aircraft missile fired by separatists to “the theory that MH17 was shot down by a plane not a ground-to-air missile” in a plot orchestrated by the CIA. The Sunday Express promptly was out with the headline “Ukrainian fighter jet ‘SHOT DOWN Malaysia Airlines MH17’ say witnesses”, referring to the BBC documentary. Even more promptly, the Komsomolskaya Pravda headlined “BBC: Malaysian Boeing was shot down by the Ukrainians. The British broadcaster conducted a long investigation that confirms what was we published a year and a half ago”.

The British friends of Putin

Even before going on air with the documentary, which is scheduled on May 3, the BBC had to defend its work. “The Sunday Express has misrepresented this programme,” a spokesman said. “Contrary to their headline experts in fact tell the programme it was unlikely a Ukrainian fighter jet could have shot down MH17, as they cannot fly at such high altitudes. This impartial documentary takes a balanced viewpoint in reporting the competing theories surrounding the fate of MH17, including the evidence for and against those involving Russia, Ukraine and the CIA”.
What happened then? Have they got it wrong at the Sunday Express ?
The answer is as obvious as it is simple. The Sunday Express is first and foremost a tabloid, in the British sense of the term. A tabloid made hawked pseudo-news. It is not enough, though. Its owner, Richard Desmond, is a major funder of the UKIP, the nationalist, populist and anti-European British party. His media outlets have made no secret of fully supporting the UKIP campaigns. The UKIP has also other funders. This is why it last year blocked a scrutiny of party donations, as part of a drive to halt Russian influence in Europe, especially by funding European right-wing parties such as the French Front Nationale. Nigel Farage, its leader, has repeatedly expressed admiration for Putin as “a brilliant operator who had played the whole Syria thing”. Another party member, Diane James, said the Russian president is a “a very strong leader and a nationalist, who has issues with the way the EU encouraged a change of government in the Ukraine which he felt put at risk a Russian population in that country”.

Hypothesis

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing with 298 passengers that crashed in the skies of Donbass on July 17 started an information war with versions for all tastes: #1, Russians shot it down the to blame Ukrainians. #2, Ukrainians downed it by mistake with the same Soviet-made anti-aircraft system. #3, Ukrainians shot it down on the orders of the CIA to blame Russians. #4, separatists shot it down by mistake with an anti-aircraft system provided by Russians. It would be enough just to use Occam’s Razor to cut the most improbable explanations out. The Ukrainian army, which has the Soviet-made missile systems Buk in force, had no reason to use them, because the separatists have never had any air support. There were no planes to shoot down. Hypotheses #1 and #2 are out.
The Russian government has always denied having provided the separatists antiaircraft weapon systems; on the other hand, militiamen themselves were boasting before the disaster to be in possession of a missile launcher Buk. Ergo, would not make sense for the CIA to down the plane to blame Russia, because separatists would be easily found guilty instead. Hypothesis #3 is out.
There was an intense Ukrainian aerial activity in the Ato zone in those weeks, and the militia had already shot down at least two transport planes and a helicopter in the previous days. They had every reason to have an effective anti-aircraft system to neutralize the Ukrainian aviation. Hypothesis #4 seems to work. The same one chosen by the Dutch investigators.

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