While it has become increasingly common for NATO to blame Russia for pretty much anything, today’s “fake news” allegation tries to pin on Russia a rumor started by a handful of emails, and which never got much traction outside of a few rumors in Lithuanian media.
The rumor was that German troops, who were recently deployed to Lithuania to target Russia, had been accused of raping an underage Lithuanian girl. An email claiming this was sent to a top Lithuanian MP and a few local media outlets, but was quickly abandoned when authorities insisted there was no such victim and no evidence anything about the story was true.
Rumors like this are relatively common, and the only unique aspect of this one was that a couple of local Lithuanian media outlets took the bait and published the rumors. Still, officials are eager to blame Russia, seemingly just on the idea that the troops are there to target Russia, so Russia would have an interest in embarrassing them.
This is just the latest claim that Russia is targeting Germany, which also includes some vague allegations that Russia is plotting to see a Euroskeptic German party, the AfD, perform well in the upcoming September elections. This allegation appears based wholly on the fact the AfD is polling well, and that the current ruling party wants to blame them for it.
NATO further stated they believe the sexual assault in question was actually committed by Julian Assange with the assistance of secret Russian teleportation technology!!
Who cares about German troops? I doubt these castrated fellows are even combat worthy. Unlike 1941, in 2017 German troops are no real threat to Russia.
Russia will be Islamic and it’s a dump where folks drink anti-freeze and bath oil, the planes crash, low life expectancy and hospitals that fall apart.
Russia could only win Poland by being Nazi collaborators, feel great pride for the Motherland.
This is the kind of seething hate that’s out there in America. Personally, I welcome it because decent people will come to understand that it’s no joke. Sadly Tom, you represent the large majority of your fellow Americans. And you’re not keeping it a secret.
Russia is a dump with planes that crash, hospitals falling apart, low life expectancy and where they drink bath oil and anti-freeze to get high, opposition figures killed, who would want to be a part of that arm pit. Yet, here is antiwar plugging for them and their $70 billion dollar leader from a KGB agent.
I suggest you invest in a remedial English reading class if you think that’s what Antiwar.com is doing.
I would suggest that the people here at antiwar.com hold no animosity toward Russia, so that could be what you see as plugging for Russia and Putin. The distinction isn’t important to me so I’m o.k. with your version.
I’m a Canadian though, but I don’t think that makes me any different. What I do object to in your message is your assumption that Russians are how you describe them. Actually they’re not and your description is only wishful thinking that the US sanctions are working. It isn’t working all that well because Russia has made the decision to separate itself from the West and especially the US because their leadership sees no hope of peaceful relations any time in their future. And fwiw Tom, if the US doesn’t succeed in it’s efforts to destroy Russia’s economy, the BRICS are in your future.
I think that your colourful descriptions of drinking anti-freeze, etc. is a reflection of what you are seeing in your own country. And I also think the time is well past when you could criticize Russia’s leader when you now have the most ridiculous psychopath as your own leader who the entire world is laughing at now.
Stick around Tom, this site needs more like you!
… and with the USA, Britain, France.
No it wasn’t, you clueless fool.
In this universe, it certainly was. Perhaps in whatever alternate universe you live in, that was not the case.
Amerikkka isn’t the universe, Knapp. Especially when it comes to history. The USSR signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.
They were the last of the European powers to do so.
So by your ‘logic’ every other European country was an “ally of Nazi Germany”.
Did all the other European powers jointly invade Poland with the Third Reich? No. Other than Danzig and a Slovak regiment, those two ALLIES acted in an ALLIED manner.
You don’t have to like how history happened. It happened how it happened whether you like it or not.
Ah, the Humpty Dumpty school of English I see. I’ll stick to the real meaning of the word, thanks. Libertoonian nutter.
The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with the Third Reich. Then, pursuant to a secret annex of that pact specifying that it would do so, the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland with the Third Reich.
One of us is playing some Humpty Dumpty horseshit with the English language. But it’s not me.
Of course it could be. We’d likely never know.
A significant number of people living in Lithuania are Russians. Many Lithuanians don’t like Germans anyway, from many German occupations going back a very long time.
Even if it was the Russians, it fell on very fertile ground for reasons having to do with the German past and Lithuanian feelings, not just Russia.