Post by TsarSamuil on Jun 22, 2016 13:25:49 GMT -5
Ukraine is out, 3 losses, 0 goals 
Euro 2016 Proved No Anti-Putin Conspiracy Theory Is So Stupid London Won't Pick It Up
The idea president of Russia has nothing better to do than, or has something to gain by, organizing football hooligan expeditions to Euro 2016 is the stupidest notion peddled by any government this side of North Korea
RI
Mark Nicholas 13 hours ago
Did you know that among all the scheming for the UK to leave the EU Putin also finds time to micro-manage Europe's football hooligan wars? Yupp, deep in his Kremlin lair pasty-skinned Vlad laughs maniacally as he plans 'hybrid warfare' on Europe's football stadiums.
At least that is what the British government, supposedly a serious government of a serious country, would like you to believe.
Over the weekend The Guardian relayed uncritically that unnamed "senior government officials" "fear" the 150 Russian hooligans who chased and dispersed legions of largely inebriated English football fans in Marseille last week were dispatched directly by "Vladimir Putin's regime".
Of course The Guardian itself tried to peddle the very same idiotic idea in an editorial on Thursday albeit it admitted in the same breath it had absolutely no proof:
In other words: we have no evidence whatsoever, but neither did we really have anything to back up the Litvinenko or Panama allegations and you seemed to swallow those, so maybe we can take you for fools once more.
It's funny how this works. Both, the comical British government and the most Russophobic paper in Britain want you to buy into this, but the idea is obviously so far fetched and idiotic that neither can bring themselves to make the accusation openly and stake their reputations on it.
Thus the solution: British "senior government officials" share their "fears" with The Guardian anonymously and the latter writes them down and publishes them -- without bothering to point out how laughable they really are.
Thus technically neither party and no named person is really on the record as pointing a finger at official Moscow, and yet the idea has been shared with the public who will hopefully go for it.
Thus the stupidity of the conspiracy theory being peddled is really the reflection of the low esteem Whitehall holds the British public in -- apparently they'll eat up anything or so their government and its propagandists think.
Will they really?

Euro 2016 Proved No Anti-Putin Conspiracy Theory Is So Stupid London Won't Pick It Up
The idea president of Russia has nothing better to do than, or has something to gain by, organizing football hooligan expeditions to Euro 2016 is the stupidest notion peddled by any government this side of North Korea
RI
Mark Nicholas 13 hours ago
Did you know that among all the scheming for the UK to leave the EU Putin also finds time to micro-manage Europe's football hooligan wars? Yupp, deep in his Kremlin lair pasty-skinned Vlad laughs maniacally as he plans 'hybrid warfare' on Europe's football stadiums.
At least that is what the British government, supposedly a serious government of a serious country, would like you to believe.
Over the weekend The Guardian relayed uncritically that unnamed "senior government officials" "fear" the 150 Russian hooligans who chased and dispersed legions of largely inebriated English football fans in Marseille last week were dispatched directly by "Vladimir Putin's regime".
Of course The Guardian itself tried to peddle the very same idiotic idea in an editorial on Thursday albeit it admitted in the same breath it had absolutely no proof:
Tracing a link between events on the ground and a political decision taken in the Kremlin is often a tall order. Russia’s power system is defined by its opacity as much as by its ruthlessness. Take the Panama Papers revelations, or the inquiry over the Litvinenko assassination in London: in public at least, irrefutable proof of political involvement was never produced.
In other words: we have no evidence whatsoever, but neither did we really have anything to back up the Litvinenko or Panama allegations and you seemed to swallow those, so maybe we can take you for fools once more.
It's funny how this works. Both, the comical British government and the most Russophobic paper in Britain want you to buy into this, but the idea is obviously so far fetched and idiotic that neither can bring themselves to make the accusation openly and stake their reputations on it.
Thus the solution: British "senior government officials" share their "fears" with The Guardian anonymously and the latter writes them down and publishes them -- without bothering to point out how laughable they really are.
Thus technically neither party and no named person is really on the record as pointing a finger at official Moscow, and yet the idea has been shared with the public who will hopefully go for it.
Thus the stupidity of the conspiracy theory being peddled is really the reflection of the low esteem Whitehall holds the British public in -- apparently they'll eat up anything or so their government and its propagandists think.
Will they really?