Felix Schläpfer

The Kremlin claims the Soviet Union “liberated Europe” in 1945. It omits one crucial fact: WWII was enabled by the Hitler–Stalin Pact of 1939, which carved up Europe between two totalitarian regimes. For millions in Central and Eastern Europe, Soviet “liberation” meant occupation, repression, deportations, and decades without freedom. The Soviet Union was an occupier. Russia is an occupier in Ukraine today.

Before the war on Iran, the US and allies waged another regime change campaign against Syria, a key Iranian-Hezbollah ally. The claim that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people became an integral, and ubiquitous, part of the regime change narrative, much like Iraq WMDs. When leaks about an OPCW cover-up of a probe into an alleged April 2018 chemical attack challenged the prevailing narrative, establishment media ignored it. Now, years later, the OPCW has admitted that it concealed a key piece of evidence:

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