Putin Predicted
Washington Would Employ Assassination Tactic
Against Russia
By Paul Craig Roberts
March 05, 2015 "ICH"
- The Saker provides a one minute
video with translation of Putin explaining
two years ago the Russian government’s
concern that an overseas entity would use a
false flag assassination within Russia in
order to create an “involuntary martyr” that
the Western media would use to demonize
Russia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41124.htm
According to this report
by The Saker,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-boris-nemtsov-assassination-russias-non-system-opposition-refuses-to-blame-the-kremlin/5434206
, the Washington-financed Russian opposition
has not, as Washington hoped it would,
joined the Western anti-Putin media
campaign. Possibly the Washington-financed
Russian NGOs have wised up from observing
events in Ukraine. In place of “more
democracy,” they got a Washington stooge
government squandering Ukraine’s last cent
on a losing war.
The most likely
explanation of Nemtsov’s murder is that the
CIA decided, as Nemtsov was completely
marginalized as an opposition politician
with 5% as against Putin’s 85%, that Nemtsov
was worth more dead than alive. But the
ploy, if that is what it is, has not worked
inside Russia.
Part of the circumstantial
evidence that Nemtsov’s murder was a CIA
tactic to destabilize Russia is the
orchestrated US media. The New York Times,
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR,
and the rest of the presstitutes were ready
on cue with reports insinuating that Putin
was responsible. Stephen Lendman has done a
good job tracking the US media’s
unquestioning adherence to Washington’s
propaganda line.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com
On February 28 NPR’s
report consisted of a sound bite from a
dissident Russian in exile who implied that
Nemtsov was actually a rival to Putin with
the population split between the two and
that Putin eliminated his rival. No
counterview to this abject nonsense was
offered. At one time NPR was an alternative
voice. Today NPR belongs to the Republican
Party and the corporations whose advertising
revenues are larger than listener donations.
If the Russian
investigation discovers CIA involvement, the
Russian government will keep it quiet. The
audacity of Washington murdering a washed-up
Russian politician in order to blame the
Russian government bespeaks of war. Putin,
unlike Washington, does not want war. If the
culprit(s) is not found, it will look like a
coverup. So someone has to be blamed. The
Russian police have already suggested that
possibly the key to the murder is the
attractive young woman with Nemtsov when he
was shot down. Nemtsov might have been
trespassing on the property of a dangerous
man, possibly a member of the Russian mafia.
Like everything else that
happens, Americans will be given by the
presstitutes an explanation that coincides
with the interests of Washington. All who
rely on the US media will never know why
Nemtsov was murdered, or anything else for
that matter.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service,
and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and
Economic Dissolution of the West and
How America Was Lost.