the fog of war doesn't apply to targeted murders;

I started the morning with an appearance on Peter Lavelle’s show, Cross Talk, where I, along with Michael Maloof and Michael Scheurer, discussed Syria. Little did I know that the news cycle was blowing up over the assassination of Russian General Kirillov, who commanded Russia’s military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces.

This is not your typical, random murder by bomb. It was a targeted intelligence operation, with Ukraine’s SBU immediately taking credit for the act. It also appears to have been encouraged, if not facilitated, by the CIA and/or the UK’s MI-6. Why? Because the corporate media was immediately reporting on this and treating it as a form of just retribution by Ukraine. Why? Because Ukraine charged General Kirillov on Monday as war criminal for the alleged use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian soldiers.

A day before his killing, Ukraine had accused General Kirillov of criminal activity, saying he was responsible for the “massive use of banned chemical weapons” in Ukraine. The security service said that Russian forces had used chemical weapons on the battlefield more than 4,800 times since the war began, on General Kirillov’s orders. Russia denied Ukraine’s accusations during a July meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Ukraine has said the chemical weapons used by Russia often include combat grenades equipped with the irritant chemical agents CS and CN. Those tear gases, most commonly used by riot police officers to control crowds, are banned in warfare under the Chemical Weapons Convention, an arms control treaty ratified by more than 150 countries, including Rus

That, in my view, is a fabricated excuse. I believe Ukraine released that story on Monday in order to create a predicate for killing Kirillov on Tuesday, which they did.........more.......