By Scott Humor
As a story goes, back in the nineteenth-century, a Paris opera house decided to stage a play with insults towards Russia and its monarch, Alexander I. He sent his diplomat to talk to the theater administration and asked them not to stage this sort of Russophobic production; they refused, saying that the French were enjoying freedom of speech and could insult Russians all they wanted.
Alexander I contacted the French government and asked for assistance to buy all the tickets for a premier. “We are coming to watch this play,” he wrote to them. “Myself, and two hundred thousands of my best men. I can assure you that they are all excellent critics of the French theater.”
The next day after the French government got his letter, the play was canceled.
Those were the good old days. Not that much has changed since then.
First it was the Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations with his speech on the situation in Syria.
He did not care to mention anything about the Syrian and Russian militaries fighting the most vicious terror army in history (Daesh). He said, instead, that they prepared an opposition to install as the government of Syria. He went from blaming a chemical attack on the Syrian government, to saying that they are ready to immediately install UK-approved government agents. He didn’t say a word about who would be fighting with the Daesh terrorists, if the elected Syrian government were to be toppled.
He failed to explain what would happen to the Syrian army and to millions of Syrians who elected Assad as their president, and to those who just escaped the horror of living under the Western approved “opposition.”
Next, the British representative proceeded with attack on Russia: “Russia’s initiative in 2013 to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons has been exposed as a shambles. Russian pride in the Astana process has been turned to humiliation. And Russia’s credibility and reputation across the world have been poisoned by its toxic association with Asad. They have chosen to side with a murderous, barbaric criminal, rather than with their international peers. They have chosen the wrong side of history.”
Thank God that Russia is not on the side of the globalists.
Then it was Safronkov’s turn to responded to Rycroft’s speech. He delivered his famous “Don’t you dare insult Russia,” speech
April 12th, ‘Don’t you dare insult Russia!’: Moscow envoy chides UK counterpart at UNSC meeting
The Russian mission to the UN website posted a transcript of his speech in Russian.
The full speech of Vladimir Safronkov starts at 1.10:09 with an English voice-over, by C-SPAN
As you can see, it’s a comprehensive and justifiable response to the attempts of the Western governments to smear the Syrian government and by association, Russia, with a war crime that by most accounts was an orchestrated false flag operation.
The hysterical outburst that followed Safronkov’s speech was carried out by the regular globalist media outlets like Interpreter magazine, formed by Khodorkovsky-Soros, and now, since Khodorkovsky got afflicted by some mysterious disease, run by the Voice of America editors. Forgotten Kasparov churned in, and an entire slew of liberal publications in Russian that would be a waste of your time to list.
They all ignored the entirety of the speech and concentrated on Vladimir Safronkov asking the UK representative to pay attention, since he was the author of the draft resolution. Liberals also found as unpalatable the simple demand of the senior Russian diplomat to stop insulting Russia. After all, they have built their careers and livelihoods on doing just that.
“It’s very strange to hear from our Western colleagues who month after month and year after year take pleasure of exercising in insulting remarks against Russia and its policies. Eventually, time comes when we need to send a serious emotional signal to try to bring out from a state of political zombification all those who sit with us at one table in the Security Council and in the Executive Council of the OPCW, otherwise nothing else works. “
According to Ryabkov, representatives of the Western governments should start thinking about their behavior: “Speaking on the matters brought out in the Deputy permanent representative Safronkov’s speech, he said exactly what was required in this situation. I assure you, he can speak in several languages, and he measures the degree of diplomatic courtesy depending on the situation.”
The Kremlin spokesman Peskov, also supported Safronkov by saying: “Nothing offensive was said. Manifestations of the spinelessness are fraught in the future with deplorable consequences. Therefore, it is better to defend the interests of our homeland today, and, if necessary, in a rather tough manner.”
To me, as an observer the situation went as follows:
The UK envoy to the UN prepared a draft of a mock resolution calling for a tribunal over Syria, before conducting any investigations over what we all know was an orchestrated false flag attack.
The UK’s draft resolution was phrased in a way that named Russia as “conspiring” with the Syrian government to conduct chemical attacks on Syrian citizens. It was written in such an insulting, derogatory manner towards Russia that it would be treason for the Russian delegation to agree to it.
Knowing full well that Russia would block this resolution draft, the Western Media was waiting to initiate the deafening smear campaign against Russia. Even before April 12, they started saying that Russia would veto the UK drafted resolution, “because Russia with [the] Syrian government [are] committing these crimes.”
What happened on April 12 is an illustration that our diplomats knew about those plans and anticipated them. One can only imagine how they felt the moment they received the UK draft resolution for a review. It was a trap. No matter what Russia would do about this resolution, it was a losing position and absolutely devastating PR for Russia.
For those who still don’t understand what has just happened: they (deep state, globalists, the CIA and their mercenary terror army) were staging multiple chemical attacks in Syria since 2011, and they dragged two US warships to the Syrian shore to demonstrate how serious they are about going into Syria. They concentrated troops in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia ready to go at once and to attack Damascus and to capture and execute Assad for alleged use of chemicals to mass murder people, just like they did to Saddam.
We know that Saddam never used the chemical weapons. We know that he never tossed babies out of incubators. The CIA and their special ops troops used chemical weapons that they brought first to Libya then to Syria and Turkey, on the same ship that they used for the team of the US Ambassador Stevens to set up a CIA headquarter in Benghazi.
They set up their movie production crew called the White Helmets, because they love to capture on film their crimes everywhere from France to Ukraine to the Middle East. The plan after murdering Assad is to go and erase Syria of the map, because Israel needs more territories and Western allies need a dry land corridor to go deep into the Eurasian continent and attack China, India and Russia.
They set up everything. The circumstances were beyond dangerous with NATO starting to bomb Syrian and Russian troops. At this moment a Russian diplomat’s speech stopped them in their tracks. It was like stopping and knocking aside a rouge train bearing at all of us.
What Safronkov has done was a military maneuver: he left the security of his diplomatic cover, wearing the Russian flag colors on his tie; he exposed himself to enemy fire with his own guns blazing, and, without giving them a moment to regroup, lead a successful assault on their positions.
Was he successful? Judge for yourself and search for ‘Russia vetoes the UN resolution of the use of chemical weapon in Syria.’ All you can find is that Safronkov said, “Don’t you dare to insult Russia!”
They couldn’t go any further with their diabolic plans and they still can’t. They are regrouping now and we all know that they will attack again. They will never stop voluntarily, unless they are defeated. I pray for all those innocent lives that were taken by this international cabal.
That’s how we should view Safronkov’s speech in the UN Security Council. It’s a Russian officer’s warning to globalists: “Don’t you dare insult Russia!” a statement with which the majority of the Earth’s population agrees. At this moment, people are fed up with unprecedented hysterical Russophobia orchestrated by Western globalists.
Think for a moment what would happen to the limited group of Russian troops in Syria, if the so called Arab-NATO-Israel alliance would attack them following their provocative resolution.
It’s not farfetched to assume that after destroying Syria, the Western coalition won’t be satisfied with just the Middle East drowning in blood. The Western governments would also bomb into dust and mud the Russian union and Eurasian union members. If they are not stopped, they will destroy every single nation on earth.
Instead, however, everyone now is talking about the Russian diplomat smashing into pieces a space lizard looking creature that goes by the name of Matthew Rycroft. Instead of hearing every minute the bellicose statements of a retired NATO generals about “Killing as many Russians as we can,” we watch videos of an enraged Safronkov repeating over and over again, “Don’t you dare insult Russia!”
Brilliant. Simply brilliant! This was a pure diplomatic genius move. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.
The following day the Kremlin issued its approval of Safronkov’s speech voiced by the government spokesman Peskov. It was followed by the approval issued by the deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I considered the matter being closed and done, and filed it as another decisive victory of Russian diplomacy.
As it turned out, prematurely, because our enemies couldn’t simply accept their defeat. Imagine them loosing this carefully orchestrated multi-step special operation against Russia and Syria, which started with a false flag attack, proceeded with two the US ships bombing Syria and attacking Syrian government directly, for the first time during their six year war against Syria.
Imagine the majority of their missiles not even being able to reach their targets. They pull their wits together, which isn’t much, and proceeded with a rising wave of diplomatic and political attacks against Russia, and all of this hell and fury suddenly came crushing against one determined Russian officer.
I love Vladimir Safronkov. He singlehandedly defeated all of them. He really needs our love and support now, because the Evil Empire turned around and attacked him. He became their personal enemy. I truly hope that he will be defended by our people.
The Russia’s diplomats push against globalists’ attacks didn’t stop there:
“On today’s Security Council meeting, deputy envoy Vladimir Safronkov criticized the obviously hastily and sloppy-written draft resolution on the chemical attack in Syria. Instead, we offered our own, short, business-like draft aimed at staging a real investigation, instead of appointing those guilty before the facts are even established,” the Russian UN envoy’s press secretary, Fedor Strzhyzhovsky, said.
Everything went well until about a week later; the following is a pure speculation of mine based on facts, and I am writing this for a sheer love of my country, and for my desire to preserve its peace and prosperity.
A week after Safronkov’s speech, “news” broke across the neo-con funded liberal media that Velentina Matviyenko, a Russian Parliament Chairwoman, reportedly talking to a Moscow University professor of Constitutional law, expressed her dissatisfaction with Safronkov’s actions and wanted his superiors to punish him.
Reportedly, she expressed her dissatisfaction with the Russian diplomat’s speech, while talking to Avakyan Suren, a Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law at Moscow State University and one of the founders of the “Constitutional Culture” International Analytical Center” foundation (CCIAC)
“The “Constitutional Culture” International Analytical Center” foundation is a non-commercial and non-membership organization created on voluntary contributions of assets of individuals and (or) legal persons to pursue scientific, educational and social goals.
The foundation conducts its activities based on the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia, the RA Law “On Foundations,” and is governed by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, Legislation of the Republic of Armenia, International Treaties of the Republic of Armenia, international legal acts related to the activities of the Foundation and this Charter.”
I can see how a citizen of one country can be a constitutional scholar for another country, but what I don’t get is why some extracurricular activities of Avakyan Suren involve instructing students in the social engineering of how to organize the opposition locally and how to make it powerful enough (very similar to the movements that destroyed the Communist party and subsequently the country.)
“Maybe we should try to unite people at their place of residence?” He asks.
Why doesn’t the Lomonosov Moscow State University recognize the fact that if a professor of Constitutional law teaches his students how to violate this constitution, he, by definition, is not suitable for his job? Just like a doctor who euthanizes his patients instead of treating them for minor cuts and bruises wouldn’t be suitable for his job.
So, when he reportedly approached Russia’s parliament Chairperson during the conference and told her that he found Safronkov’s speech to be at the level of a lower rank military officer, she, reportedly, agreed with him and said that she contacted Safronkov’s superiors (Lavrov, allegedly) to take measures against the diplomat.
Vladimir Safronkov’s diplomatic rank is equal to an army general. He is a career diplomat, with experience working in the Middle East and North Africa. In the 90s, while working in Tunisia he was an advisor for the Liberation of Palestine organization. He worked with the Syria chemical weapon disarmament agreement. He speaks Arabic, French, and English.
Remarkably, Valentina Matviyenko didn’t express any dissatisfaction with Safronkov immediately following his speech. On the contrary, she waited for eight days, an eternity in politics, to publicly denounce him and publicly say that she contacted his superiors about him. Meanwhile in these eight days, she made a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, leading a 15-member Russian delegation.
They arrived in Riyadh on Saturday. The delegation included eight members of Russian parliament, in addition to seven officials. She wrapped up her three-day visit on Monday April 17. The same day, the outlet for the undemocratic murderous Saudi regime propaganda, Asharq Al- Awsat, published an article with an eyebrow-raising title: “Russian Parliament Chairman: Saudi Arabia is Our Main Partner.”
As the third person in Russian politics, Ms. Matvienko should know that it was Saudi Arabia, together with the Obama administration, who orchestrated an oil glut in 2014, to bring the Russian economy “to its knees.” According to their own wildly publicized admission, they had gone so far with a singular aim to orchestrate the “color revolution” in Russia against President Putin and his government, for the US and the EU to take power in Russia in order to neutralize the Russia’s military for NATO to attack the country and to “kill all the Russians.”
The Saudis oil war had cost Russian taxpayers a trillion of dollars in lost revenues. This was money that people would have had in their pensions, and lower food prices, and higher salaries, if it wasn’t taken from them by Saudi Arabia. I have not heard anything about the Saudis reimbursing the Russian taxpayers for all the money they lost due to Saudi Arabia’s hostile actions. Without this, I cannot imagine how the Russian Parliament Chairwoman can possibly call Saudi Arabia “Our Main Partner.”
Saudi Arabia has been instrumental in the terror war against Russia in Chechnya and in the war on Syria. The very same war that Russia is spilling its blood and treasure trying to bring to an end.
If you don’t believe me, listen to my old pal, the Kulak: “The Saudis are definitely not Russia’s friends. No matter what deals have been negotiated in the oil realm, they haven’t been kept.”
The statement that Saudi Arabia is “our main partner” must tremendously alert Russia’s true ally in the region, Iran.
It is virtually impossible for Matviyenko not to know all this, unless, of course, by saying “our” she meant someone other than Russia.
Following her much publicized statement concerning Safronkov’s speech, Matviyenko said that “The US treats Russia as a toxic country.” “They made our Ambassador to the US “toxic,” she announced this at the meeting of the Scientific expert Council on Thursday, April 20th.
“We are very interested in contacts with Congress, we did a lot of attempts of different kinds and of different formats. Now Russia is «toxic» and our Ambassador is «toxic». He has been immersed in such vacuum that if someone talks to him on the phone and greats him somewhere at the reception, the person gets immediately blacklisted; that’s the atmosphere in the US today.”
She didn’t mention the Russian mission at the UN this time.
That the Russian parliament was “very interested in contacts with Congress,” and that they made “a lot of attempts” to contact the US congress is news to me, since President Putin himself repeatedly said that Russian government won’t negotiate lifting of sanctions.
It almost looks like Matviyenko and other members of the Duma conduct their own brand of foreign policy behind President Putin’s back.
The situation with Russian diplomatic missions across Asia and the Middle East is completely opposite to the one in Washington. Matviyenko herself visits Middle Eastern countries frequently and with reported success. One would think that getting the cold shoulder from the crumbling Anglophone empire, shouldn’t be at any concern for Russia.
To understand why Matviyenko got so irate with Safronkov and the staff of the Russian mission to the UN, let’s look at what she considers to be her successful visits:
Matviyenko visited Israel on February 3th, 2016 to discuss the cooperation between Israel and Russia with regards to Syria and signed, along with the Speaker of Israeli Parliament, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, a cooperation agreement between the Knesset and the Russian Federation Council.
After signing the agreement, Matvienko and Edelstein held a work meeting with the participation of MK Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud), the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and MK Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beitenu), who heads the Israel-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group.
“Russia and Israel are united by the fact that they both do not accept the falsification of history, glorification of accomplices of fascism, and denial of the Holocaust,” Matviyenko said.
During her visit, Edelstein rejected the notion of Russian assistance in Palestinian peace process by stating: “As Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu has already stated, Israel has no restricting conditions for the launch of negotiations. Russia can assist and promote negotiations, but it seems odd to me that a country located so far away needs to help, while our close neighbors are not helping in the negotiations.”
Matviyenko spoke about the cooperation between Israel and Russia and said she was pleased with the “mechanism that was created during the meeting last summer between President [Vladimir] Putin and Prime Minister Netanyahu with regards to Syria.”
“We are conducting dialogue with Syrian organizations, but we will not allow the transfer of weapons to an organization that wreaks destruction and death,” she stressed.
It’s not immediately clear what “organization” she was talking about.
As I am writing this, news just broke out that Israel attacked and bombed the portions of the Syrian army that is fighting shoulder to shoulder with Russian troops to defeat the international mercenary army known under the code name the “Islamic State.” Considering that Israel one of the major sponsors of Daesh, it would be interesting to know what exactly organization Matviyenko meant when she was quoted by the Knesset website.
In September 15, 2016, Matviyenko met with Edelstein another time. They met on the sidelines of the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Strasbourg.
In 2016 Matviyenko was instrumental in the organizing for Russian taxpayers to pay the pensions of former Soviet citizens who had emigrated to Israel.
After arriving back to Moscow from her visit to the Saudis, Matvieynko didn’t stop at attacking Safronkov and issued a public statement that, I am sure, blindsided many good people.
“Russia is not trying to keep Syrian President Bashar Assad in power at any cost, but opposes a forced regime change, Russia’s upper house speaker Valentina Matviyenko said Sunday, following meetings with Saudi officials.“
This is not the first of her statement aimed seemingly to sooth the Saudis and Qataris worries. In December last year, while visiting the UAE, for the forum of women speakers of the parliaments in Abu-Dhabi, she said, “We don’t even talk about the participation of the Russian federation, of the Russian troops on the ground in Syria. We had declared this from the beginning.”
As the Kremlin spokesperson Peskov said this week, that all the questions about the deployment of Russian troops have to go to the Ministry of Defense.
She is known in the past to say something like “I am not a revolutionary type, I don’t support “forced” regime changes.” However, here she is calling the Saudis “most important allies” and canoodling with a professor who calls his students to organize against the government.
I must admit that I never paid much attention to Matviyenko before and just assumed that she was an instrumental part of President Putin’s team. But her attacks on the Russian diplomat, who demanded from the Western powers to stop insulting Russia, told me that she is not what she seems, and that she is conducting her personal brand of foreign policy.
The Ukrainian-born is the third government official in the country after Putin and Medvedev being a Chairperson of Russia’s Federation Council.
Matviyenko, her married name, started her inexplicable career as a member of the Communist party “nomenclatura,” as the First secretary of the Communist party of Leningrad. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union she dipped her toe into the diplomatic services by becoming firstly an Ambassador to Malta (1991–1995), and then to Greece (1997–1998). In 1998 she was appointed by Yeltsin (who else) to be the Deputy Prime Minister for Welfare; later she was elected as a gubernator of Saint Petersburg.
One of the most interesting periods of Mrs. Matviyenko’s life was the five years she worked as an Ambassador to Malta, at the time when the Soviet Union was being pulled apart. She was appointed there by the globalists to supervise something. It’s important to find out what exactly she did there, especially in the light of the recent revelations involving a battle of the Pope of Rome with the Knights of Malta, the Templars, and the Freemasons.
After the appointment of Matvieynko by Medvedev was announced, she was congratulated by Sally J. Novetzke, the former US Ambassador Extraordinaire to Malta at the time Mrs. Matviyenko worked there, and left a comment for this article back in 2011: “I am so proud and thrilled for Valentina. We served together as Ambassadors to Malta in early nineties and we became friends. I have had no address for her so I am very thrilled for her and she deserves it and the bests. Ambassador Sally Novetzke.”
As a former democratic party apparatchik and the political appointee as an Ambassador to Malta, Mrs. Novetzke should know that congratulations to a public official are made to his or her office and usually no need to advertise them in some Chinese newspaper, unless this was a hidden threat or a coded order.
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In 2014 the US and the EU commenced a full-fledged economic war on Russia, a war that included economic and political sanctions on some Russian businesspeople and politicians. Valentina Matviyenko was named among them.
The way it was phrased on the State Department website:”In response to the Russian government’s actions contributing to the crisis in Ukraine, this new E.O. lists seven Russian government officials who are being designated for sanctions. These individuals are Vladislav Surkov, Sergey Glazyev, Leonid Slutsky, Andrei Klishas, Valentina Matviyenko, Dmitry Rogozin, and Yelena Mizulina.”
We don’t know how much money and properties the US government illegally stole from Matvieynko. It could be nothing, or it could be a lot. There were rumors that her son, who made a fortune of about $100 million in banking during his mother’s tenure as gubernator of St. Petersburg, has been losing lots of money ever since she left. He was pushed out or was forced to resign from the banking and from some mega building projects. As early as 2007, he lost a multi-million dollar development project in Estonia after being blacklisted by the Estonian government. This year, however, Sergei Matviyenko staged his return to big business.
One can imagine that Matviyenko is extremely irate about the money and properties that she has reportedly lost in the U.S. due to the sanctions. She might even erroneously attribute her loss to the policies of President Putin, and not to the Western governments’ ongoing war on Russia as a country and as a nation.
She might not even care, who knows?
Her unexpected and unnecessary demarche against Safronkov for his selfless and courageous stance for Russia in the face of our mortal enemies has confused and saddened all of us. Considering that until very recently, Russia had on diplomatic service people who were the embodiment of failure. Take for example an Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin, who had served as envoy to Ukraine from 2001 to 2009 and supervised a dramatic collapse of relations with this alienated by the West Russian province.
The timetable of her actions makes this even more peculiar. The fact is that she lashed out against the Russian diplomat ten days after his speech and shortly after she returned from her meeting with the Saudi king, where she appeared wrapped into some truly bizarre green shimmering floor length parachute and matching green babushka. On a video she looks ether imperial, or submissive, I can’t decide.
We already know that the Saudis have some kind of mysterious supernatural power over female politicians. Just recently, we all had the pleasure to observe another powerful woman, Hillary Clinton, behaving in the same exact manner, especially after she had received reportedly $500,000 worth of jewelry and about $10 million contribution to the Clintons’ foundation, which wasn’t a bribe at all. Matviyenko, for example, was seen wearing a $26,000 timepiece.
As for Safronkov, after his decades of work for the liberation of Palestine, and his work with Iran and Syria make his chances to be liked by our sworn enemies to be less than zero. I would even venture to say that Safronkov has no chances to be liked or given jewelry by the Saudi king.
To the politicians who live in glass houses, to those masters of universe wannabes who serve the globalists: don’t you dare to attack Russian officers! They serve our Otechestvo, not you. As God is my witness, if you attack a Russian military officer, a Russian security or intelligence officer, if you attack a Russian diplomat, we will go after your hollow political careers, we will use our analytical skills to dig out and unearth your political dirty underwear, and we will expose you to the entire globe.
Harm a Russian officer, and you will never wash the stench of your treason off. They put their lives on the line for us, people. They serve Russia. They don’t serve you.
Scott Humor
Director of Research and Development
author of The enemy of the State
‘Next, the British representative proceeded with attack on Russia: “Russia’s initiative in 2013 to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons has been exposed as a shambles. Russian pride in the Astana process has been turned to humiliation. And Russia’s credibility and reputation across the world have been poisoned by its toxic association with Asad. They have chosen to side with a murderous, barbaric criminal, rather than with their international peers. They have chosen the wrong side of history.”’
That reminds me strongly of this passage:
“The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs. Since nothing is ever quite proved or disproved, the most unmistakable fact can be impudently denied. Moreover, although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. What he wants is to feel that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit, and he can more easily do this by scoring off an adversary than by examining the facts to see whether they support him. All nationalist controversy is at the debating-society level. It is always entirely inconclusive, since each contestant invariably believes himself to have won the victory. Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connection with the physical world”.
– George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” (first published: Polemic. — GB, London. — May 1945).
Nazis? I don’t think Orwell knew exactly what was and had been going on in Germany (Roth-child’s Nazi Project), the USSR (Roth-child agent Trotsky vs Stalin), and so forth, but he sure knew that the British Empire was run by devilish liars (Roth-child Nazis and their Newspeak).
Vladimir Safronkov is very impressive, so is Scott’s analysis.
That old pig Valentina Matviyenko is beyond a shadow of a doubt a Nazi/Trotskyite 5th column collaborating with Russia’s worst enemies (Nazis/ISIS). Is that what 27 million Russians (i.e. Stalin’s USSR) died for in the Great Patriotic War? . . . http://youtu.be/PuLebpUBCio
“They have chosen the wrong side of history.”
Isn’t that a standard Marxist statement? I don’t think that history actually has any sides – any more than it has a top, a bottom, a front, or a backside.
Although if it did have a backside, I know whom I would associate with that.
History is like a boomerang, when all was indicating she was finished ( F. Fukuyama ), she dares to return….so, since History was to be died by the breakout of the USSR and the unveiling of the Iron Curtain, why not to use Marx sayings, once she is again here with us?
On the other hand, I would be careful in giving credibility to these statements by Mrs. Matviyneko taking into account that they were published by the neo-liberal media, according with the author of this article. So, why give them credibility and above all, help them spreading probably fake news aimed to cause turmoil amongst the Russian officilas and allies?
In case this would be found finally being true, I guess Mrs. Matviyenko starts getting too much botox for well being.
UK is no longer a serious country. With Rycroft as author of Blair’s “Dodgy Dossier” which destroyed Iraq having even less credibility than his boss Turkish-American Boris Johnson, and the half-wit Fallon sounding off whilst his Navy cannot afford sailors or aircraft for its ships and has a Type 45 moored in port despite costing £1 billion; and an Army which has proven itself poorly led in Iraq and Afghanistan; and an Air Force about to be saddled with F-35 Albatross
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All this posturing and all this talk does not amount to much so long as the Russian Central Bank is run by the globalists, so long as a parallel administration run by atlanticists holds key posts, so long as a powerful fifth column stays entrenched and so long as the majority of Russian are clueless about all this.
Thank you
It does seem posturing. Hardly a major victory for Russia to dispute and disagree with a statement which paves the way for Russia and one of their allies to be convicted of crimes against humanity and Syria invaded more overtly and Russia kicked out along with Assad. I may be missing something?
Russia were never going to agree to such a thing…not out of a defiant stance against the great war machine, but more out of common sense. More bullshit for the msm loud speakers, nothing more.
…day after day it´s more and more clear to me that “Uncle Vlad” needs to “take the insecticide and fumigate his kitchen”.
“The sooner, the better.” ;)
Большое спасибо за прекрасную статью!
“I love Vladimir Safronkov. He singlehandedly defeated all of them. He really needs our love and support now, because the Evil Empire turned around and attacked him.”
Agree to that. I pray for him not to be killed or “heart attacked” like his predecessor, like other Russian officials and Diplomats including Putins own chauffeur.
I wonder how this woman’s damaging activity for Russia, didn’t caught the attention of mr. Putin or someone else in the government? Or maybe she did and they are just letting her dig her own political grave until she is so utterly compromised that she will have to leave? Sofronkov is a hero in my eyes and should be supported 110% by the Russian government, this woman’s behavior is totally out of line, since she appears to be leading her own private foreign policy.
I have the idea that, for Russians, repeated rudeness will at some point involve being shown the door. Then, if you insist on banging away at it, the bear may wake…so to speak…and remove the rude party from the entire “near abroad”, again, so to speak… Just my silly thought, eh?
But seriously, the affair at the UN reminded me of the efforts of Litvinov at the League of Nations… The USSR was illegally expelled shortly later – wiki says:
“The Soviet Union became a member on 18 September 1934,[77] and was expelled on 14 December 1939[77] for invading Finland. In expelling the Soviet Union, the League broke its own rule: only 7 of 15 members of the Council voted for expulsion (United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Bolivia, Egypt, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic), short of the majority required by the Covenant. Three of these members had been made Council members the day before the vote (South Africa, Bolivia, and Egypt). This was one of the League’s final acts before it practically ceased functioning due to the Second World War.[78] ”
That’s about true, more or less. Litvinov was replaced by the possibly more pragmatic Molotov, but both men tried very hard to deal with matters on the diplomatic level.
Meantime… http://tass.com/politics/942643 – Brother Sergey G says “As soon as we and China are through with the dollar, it will be the end of the United States’ military might,”
“As soon as…” That means that the strategy is out in the open… And running.
It also means that the probability of major violence is essentially 100% – As always, a disequilibrium between power and wealth makes the flow of violence occur.
Which strategy shall prevail? Since small matters have great effect in war, as Caesar tell us, no one can know, but we do know that the disposition of forces at the onset almost always decides a conflict. The matter is often decided the intangible “force” – by what’s called toughness or will. I should say moral quality…
Now, gee-whiz, what does that say about the Imperial Force, eh?
I’ll leave that to you, QED
Brrrravo!
Real Journalism! Find out what the creeps have been up to and let ’em know they will be exposed if they don’t behave.
If Matvienko is truly accepting bribes from KSA then charges of corruption are the only answer. But should we not consider the posibilty that she is in fact acting with the Kremlin’s blessings? Russia can also play the good cop bad cop game
We could also ‘consider’ whether the moon is made of cheese, but not for too long.
Much more likely, comrade…And very much part of Surkov’s openly revealed m.I.
The controlled appearance of opposition is so much more simple, safe and fun to play with, especially when it can be led to believe it is real, leading its followers to believe the same, is the exact nature of the lesser known yet hugely influential modern day vizier aka Gray cardinal’s sterling work for Putin.
He is seldom mentioned here, nor are his methods and articles like the above feel too boasty with so little substance, there is an absence of the obvious dalliance of Putin and others close to him in the security council with autocracy, democracy, even hints of monarcy! So tricky to stick with one label which fully outlined the political system in place.
Putin is my favourite statesmen on the planet, alongside evo Morales. Such a shame weclowt dear Hugo. Yet whilst I am hugely in favour of his foreign policy, and also praise his domestic policy, there is clearly a different kind of control system in place in Russia, probably quite different to the control system in the west and beyond, yet a control system nonetheless. It’s the only way to maintain power. And this…is simply never mentioned in any depth here on the saker. Which is curious…
Over time, I have come to enjoy most Peter Koenig. Who feels always real, and sees with eyes I can share…Yet he still seems to harbour this weird and warped and clearly mistaken belief that trump actually has any real power. So on that major score, he falls down and that assertion makes me question the rest of his work.
So very difficult to find anyone whose ‘journalism’ feels 100% real. Pepe escobar comes to mind, but his eagerness to chuckle often muddles his readability. Also keen on Peter Hitchens, other than his religious views and draconian drug law support. But who else? Moon of alabama writer seems great value. Other than which I’m struggling for anyone I can fully or even close to fully trust.
Sheikh hosein is another…though his huge leaning towards eschatology often confuses the message despite the fact that his geopolitical awareness is superb.
Where to turn eh!
(m.o I meant on my bothersome phone keys! Modus Operandi! My apologies…)
Johan nagel
Try
http://roguemoney.net/james-the-russian-analyst/
This might be just what you are looking for.
Thank you, Scott.
I have been fascinated by Surkov for many moons. One of the most intriguing operators in world politics. And I had enough of an idea of his own opinions, at least the ones shared on rare occasions (e.g. interview with speigel and a few efforts to offer a slither of a biography of the man) to not at all swallow wholesomely without question his resignation in 2013. Nor the RT explanations…So it came as no surprise, but welcome news to find him popping up high in the management structure dealing with Ukraine last year.
His alleged ‘firing’ at the time felt like just another act in the stage play his life has proven thus far. I would very much like to read one of the two novels I know of, particularly Without Sky. The last few times I peek I could not find a decent translation in English. Not much of a surprise. I doubt there is a major market for his ‘work’ in the West!hohoho!
He was one of the reasons – when I began focusing more on comrade Vlad 4 or 5 years back, after consuming too much Dostoyevksy, Chekov and especially Bulgakov to avoid the obvious assertion that the Russian history was extremely diverse, rich and colourful and needed to be studied, both in the past and in the Now – to delve ever deeper. To compare an aggressive prick like Alistair Campbell to Surkov is like comparing a wombat with a leopard.
I am unsure of your own opinion on Surkov, yet would very much appreciate a piece here at thesaker which gave an insight into the Russian Security Council, those who are considered Atlantacists, those more loyal to Putin, and how the power is stacked in reality. For whilst I know it sits with Putin, he is forced to take others into consideration, and requires support for major moves within that council?
Do you trust the roguemoney chap? Any information on him would be also welcome…as would any other russians writing in english on global and russian affairs. I tend to peek here daily, also russiainsider sporadically and fortruss. Mainly here…
It would appear as if Russia is in danger of the same malady that afflicts the U.S., namely deception and misdirection by the Jewish “public servants” in their midst serving other interests than the national interests of their stated nation states. Beware, the infection initially seems benign but grows to an irresistible parasitism.
Fantastic article class information -excellent that the national liberation continues and that these traitors will be exposed and purged -when Russia is free of these vampires the nation will be a symbol of the divine right of righteous and sovereign nations glory to the Russian federation!
maybe it is also a big theater only, to give Lavrov the chance to say “no no, it was OK what he said”, and to rediscuss this insult by the british guy, and make the world discuss this instead of starting ww3
The Century of War is now on for 103 years. It will not end anytime soon but with the ever increasing vitriol, insults and constant goading of Russia I’m afraid that the Pax Rossiya which lasted from May 1945 through early 1990 is over, dead, buried, forgotten and War is coming.
America has been lucky, extremely lucky. The last fighting of any import on Continental America was in 1865, 150 years ago. After the North’s victory in what they call The Civil War and we call The War of Northern Aggression America has known few years of peace and since 1917 America has been at war one way or another all over the world. Problem is Americans, in particular those in the American Government, have forgotten what they saw at the end of the second half of the War to End All Wars of 1914-1945, the absolute prostration of Continental Europe, Russia, Japan and significant areas of the Orient, empires and cultures gone, totally gone, and untold millions dead with untold more millions crippled and/or reduced to penury.
When they do finally get the war they seem to so desperately want they will see destruction and death in Continental America the likes of which they can not imagine and this cataclysmic destruction will encompass the vast majority of the norther hemisphere and significant areas in the southern hemisphere. I find it difficult to comprehend why so many of TPTB in Washington/Langley seem to desire the coming apocalypse. Do they really think they will survive? I think not, there will be survivors among the ‘ordinary workers and peasants’ who will hunt them down and do to them what they will have done to half and more of the world. One could call that statement either a threat or a warning but in truth it is simply reality. They will not survive nor will their families. For them it will be over in totality.
Safronkov’s speech was a Tour de Force of epic proportions for those of us who are cognizant of what is going on outside the exalted halls of power. Unfortunately his erudite and well thought out speech fell on the deaf ears of those who should have listened to him the most and listened well. It was if nothing else a warning wrapped in polite verbiage and delivered with the correct diction and emotion.
More’s the pity that those whom it was aimed at had not a clue of the warning. A pox on the lot of them. Their choice is War so War it will be.
Auslander
Author
Reminds me of Putin 2016:
The warning + explanation was explicit.
He even implored western journalists to report (accurately) what he said. If they tried, they were defeated by their editors and the spin doctors did their work on the rest.
The vid has close to 4million views, but needs 500million. If some kid can get 50million views on how to apply makeup…… grr/sigh
Putin’s Warning: Full Speech 2016
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo
Inessa S 3,992,918 views
Published on Jul 24, 2016:…..
This candid conversation took place with representatives of various media outlets during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2016. Putin urged journalists to report genuinely on the impending danger that is a nuclear arms race.
Can someone explain to me how did Russian manage to destroy their own military-industrial complexes. I just cannot comprehend a grand idiocy of such self-stubbing move. I assume that military putsch would be more reasonable than that collapse. Where were the patriots and defenders of Russia ?
Anonymous on April 24, 2017 · at 5:23 am UTC
“Can someone explain to me how did Russian manage to destroy their own military-industrial complexes”
In two words: “foreign occupation.”
For a longer answer you should start reading our past articles:
/one-miserably-failed-state/
/grandmaster-putin-grandiose-multi-step-operation-lasting-16-years/
/stratfors-and-others-forecasts-for-russia-in-2016-hit-or-miss-by-scott/
This woman needs to be monitored
The west will always be looking for regime change in Russia and this disloyal person is signalling that she could be their candidate.
Both Her and her son are known to have wealth that is questionable
I’ve read comments about her elsewhere and she is not well liked or respected – being the Atlantic wing of the govt with medvedev.
Russian people know their politicians very well.
Thanks for writing about this, Scott; I was rather shocked to read this woman had said what she did about what was a very honorable defense of Russia. As for the 5th columnists within Russia’s Academia, they all need to be purged before they pollute more Russian minds–particularly in economics, business and finance.
Rycroft is used to fixing facts and intelligence to the policy. He was involved in writing the so-called secret Downing Street Memo to Tony Blair used in the run up to the pre-meditated invasion of Iraq in 2003. ‘Facts’ and ‘intelligence’ such as Saddam’s WMD and the yellowcake stoires were used to ‘justify’ the policy of invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rycroft#Downing_Street_memo
A new article that shares my views on the situation with Matviyenko and her team attacking Safronkov.
Too Patriotic: Vladimir Safronkov is being removed from the UN
https://cont.ws/@riakatyusha/595624
https://translate.yandex.ru/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcont.ws%2F%40riakatyusha%2F595624&lang=ru-en
This is a shame that he is being removed.
Could they not have supported him?
I am starting to get a bad feeling regarding the Putin government.
They just seem to be scrabbling around behaving in a subservient manner.
This man spoke up and yet he is the one criticised
Russia’s own president is abused day after day in the west and yet they say nothing.
What is it that Russia stands for now?
Sucking up to Israel, sucking up to Saudis Arabia and Turkey – all who send people to kill Russians
Russia leadership show no pride
James lake,
I am not sure that he is being removed. People in Russia have concerns about hem being removed. A social opinion in his support is gaining momentum.
We have to wait and see.
Matviyenko used him to score some brown-nosed points with the globalists.
Putin should openly and vocally support his ambassador.
Finally someone said: No more kicking sand in the sandbox.
Wasn’t the Saker talking about how stupid it was for Trump not to stand up for Flynn?
What is the difference?
You have to stand up for your defenders and not rely on “social media” to do the job. Social media is BS—manipulated in all kinds of ways.
Katherine
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry web site, Lavrov and Tillerson had a phone conversation recently. They discussed removing “irritants” to their bilateral relations. Do you suppose removing Safronkov from the UN was part of some negotiations?
And I thought Safronkov was just perfect for that job, better than Churkin even, and I thought Churkin was outstanding!
Lavrov again – rolling over and conceding to the Americans
Foreign policy when he asserts himself goes wrong.
John Kerry was a back stabber yet lavrov praised him and agree with the idea of moderate revels which gave protection to other jihadi groups.
He may speak well but what does he actually achieve?
What results?
And the West keeps attacking Russia because of people like Matviyenko. If they were purged there would be different relations. I amazed how silly Russian are, or perhaps “same sh*t in different pot”, I mean Globalist, money hungry people are on both sides, and have only a few differences that causes current clash.
Wow…what a lousy bitch.
Is she a runner for Medvedev.?
Or a silly fish caught long ago and reeled in for more use now and then.?
I have long questioned her face…a mask of stupidity.
Please tone down the language. Mod
Huh, mod?
That language doesn’t sound out of line to me!
Katherine
The Anglo-Zionists possibly have something damning on Matvieyenko or play ball and you get your assets back..
There are wikkileaks entries relating to her – Stratfor looking into her from 2009
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/54/5424855_re-completed-task-matviyenko-.html
Thanks Scott for an insightful analysis and a look into the lion’s cage that tries to encircle Russia.
Matvyienko is part of Putin’strategy to contain the ennemies e.g. Saudi.She is Moscow carrot and Safronkov is the baton part, its exactly the play in exercise with Turkey.Because of her past relations with the West she is useful to defuse tensions.On another note she just received her Syrian counterpart along with an MP delegation and it was a successful visit….The so called state of “Israel”is another story all together,That is were the Russian contradictions will come to an end ,History is moving and being written right now and by natural circonstances Russia will have to choose what she is postponing right now.She will be forced by the acceleration of the war …..Its is either them or us a la Bush e.g either with the globalists bend on the destruction of Russia or with who represents the Sovereignty of states.The Empire leave the whole planet no other choice
B.H
“Matvyienko is part of Putin’strategy to contain the ennemies”
Did Matviyenko went on record saying that “Syria is Our Main Partner,” as she said about the Saudi Arabia?
After the meeting with Syria’s representatives, did she said: “Russia is not trying to keep the Saudi king in power at any cost, but opposes a forced regime change”?
Hardly so.
Scott,
Why is Russia behaving like this?
Saudi Arabia is the enemy – don’t they see it?
Re ” we watch videos of an enraged Safronkov repeating over and over again, “Don’t you dare insult Russia!””
A Google search gives no hits of this statement being reported in USA media.
. . .
Daily Express says that Safronkov “screamed” Don’t insult Russia. What I saw wasn’t screaming. It was controlled anger.
Love the use of the tyi form, but of course linguistic dummies like Haley and Rycroft don’t get it. But I hope some others do.
It is really long past time for the worm to turn.
Katherine
I prayed that Mr Churkin would be protected. He was. And he was not. I’ll explain in another context. I will pray for Mr Safronkov. If this is going to be play and counter-play, as per Rob Sibka, then it is game over for the baddies.
Hi Scott, as a person from downunder I appreciate your analysis of these events as you say it as you see it.. you speak your mind and I want the truth. Not the BS dished out by western pollies. I was surprised and dissapointed by the comments by Matviyenko as I felt the Russian UN representative was fully justified is his response. What is going on here? So thanks for spelling it straight out as I respect those that are loyal to their country. And as you say, why do the Saudis have so much sway over women when they treat them as they do?
As an aside please clarify the Russian response to the illegal missile strike on Syria with regard to the unaccounted missiles. Satellite photoes with and BDA show a larger number of hits than stated by the military rep. Again I want the truth.
It would have been really good if the Russian Military Dept provided proof with their statement that only 23 missiles hit. Without this proof, which would have been very easy to provide, no one in the West believes their claim and this further enhances the West impression that nothing the Russians say is true.
At the moment the the US and their backers can make up any nonsense and it will be believed.
It is essential that the Russians begin to supply these types of proofs if it ever wants to improve their world standing.
” I never paid much attention to Matviyenko before and just assumed that she was an instrumental part of President Putin’s team. But her attacks on the Russian diplomat, who demanded from the Western powers to stop insulting Russia, told me that she is not what she seems”
Let’s solve this simple riddle. Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko is Jewish – Zionist – 5th Column.
“In 2014 the US and the EU commenced a full-fledged economic war on Russia, a war that included economic and political sanctions on some Russian businesspeople and politicians. Valentina Matviyenko was named among them.”
Again, easy. Russian business people’ is code for Jewish oligarchs. Working with Putin makes them traitors to Zion’s cause, and therefore they have to be punished by Zion’s Politburo.
This wont be up for long but…given the owner contacts…pity the children…
http://i1.wp.com/radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/president-donald-trump-plan-war-dictators-06.jpg
MH 17
http://kremlintroll.nl/
Russian super human Vladimir Sofronokov ‘s controlled demolition of the straw stuffed effigy of person Rycroft. Best bit: “Look at me, why don’t you look at me when I’m talking to you?”
He coulden’t. Someone explain to the ambassador that Rycoft’s stuffed.
Ok, I am generally not taking Benjamin Fulford seriously but his today’s writing about a new head of the Knights of Malta and about the US debt ceiling makes Matviyenko with her Malta connections and her son with his bank look even more suspicious.
From Benjamin Fulford:
Multiple independent sources are all saying something huge might happen on May 1st. In the corporate propaganda media this is the day when a US government shut down will happen unless the debt ceiling is raised.
It is also the day when Puerto Rico, a wholly owned subsidiary of the US corporate government, is expected to go bankrupt.
It is no coincidence that a new head of the Knights of Malta will be selected on April 29th, just before the US Corporation’s bankruptcy deadline.
In any case, The Knights of Malta, ostensibly a charitable organization, are the oldest military order in the Catholic Church and the fascist faction of that order has been secretly responsible for controlling world leaders through a combination of bribery, threats and murder. In other words, they have been one of the main the enforcement arms of the secret world government. They have also exercised strong influence over the US military as many top brass are Knights of Malta.
So, an election involving 60 knights will in fact have a decisive influence over the future of the planet, especially the USA.
First of all I’d like to say: Scott, excellent article.
On the other hand, I was thinking about this situation, and while I totally support Safronkov, I started to think that perhaps he should have kept his cool and turned his comments into sarcastic joke. Sort of like Churkin used to do, and stick to the protocol. Instead of letting the gang get behind his skin.
Russians do not enjoy sadism nor do they enjoy what the English might call persiflage or eloquence (Russian: Krasnorechvost’ a negative concept).
No Russian will lie as willingly and with such pleasure and conviction as will the Anglo-Zionist.
Hence, never the twain shall meet, or, as Friedrich Nietzsche put it: “The English [Anglo-Zionists – updated] are the people of consummate cant.”
That Russians are not such casual shitheads seems like a weakness, but only temporarily. It is a permanent strength.
Sorry for posting so many sayings but another important one is from Saint Alexander Nevsky: “Strength comes not from force, but from truth.”
@Franz,
Do not be sorry, I agree with you, but Safronkov found himself in Russia unfriendly environment full of deceit to which he had to quickly adjust. I suspect, that his character was previously analyzed and attacked. He was caught unprepared.
One more thought,
What Scott says above about Matvijenko goes along my thoughts:
Safronkov’s tactical mistake (it is just a mistake in my opinion) was used by 5-th column (I consider Matvijenko a member of 5th column) to attack Lavrov and through Lavrov Putin himself.
This should not be the reason to remove him, he just has to be more careful.
Excellent article, Scott. I too make no secret of the fact that I’m a huge fan of Safronkov myself. What I’m not so familiar with is the Russian internal politics, Matviyenko’s in this particular case. All I knew is that I didn’t like her dissing of Safronkov for his alleged “unprofessional” behavior at the UNSC, according, of course, to her “opinion,” that is.
I watched both emergency sessions live on RT and all I saw was a guy rightfully angered at the outrageous calumnies being thrown in his and his country direction. Her “opinion” didn’t line-up with the gravity of the situation at the time – the gratuitous bombing of a sovereign country all based on trumped-up lies.
But in any case… many thanks for digging out this vital info and for bring it to our attention. It’s particularly useful for those of us who are not so well versed in the nitty-gritty of Russian internal politics, power struggles [etc]. After reading your OP, now it makes perfect sense why she said what she said, not to mention… not surprising at all.
Globalists are all birds of a feather, aren’t they?
I really liked how you chose to close your article: “[..] To the politicians who live in glass houses, to those masters of universe wannabes who serve the globalists: don’t you dare to attack Russian officers! They serve our Otechestvo, not you. As God is my witness, if you attack a Russian military officer, a Russian security or intelligence officer, if you attack a Russian diplomat, we will go after your hollow political careers, we will use our analytical skills to dig out and unearth your political dirty underwear, and we will expose you to the entire globe.”
^ Can’t agree more. And, please, do bring it on! The enemy, where ever they are… and what ever cloak they choose to disguise themselves with: must be exposed butt-naked, in their full hideousness for the whole world to see.
-TL2Q
If these so called ‘insults’ should turn out to be fact based would you still deem them punishable–
anon on April 25, 2017 · at 4:44 pm UTC
You wrote: “If these so called ‘insults’ should turn out to be fact based”
Why would we waste our time discussing hypothetical situations and other theoretical possibilities with their highly improbable consequences?
“get proof or get lost” That’s how the majority of people think about this staged “chemical attack.”
You wrote: “would you still deem them punishable–”
Are you talking about the Russian politicians, who are serving the globalists, the supra-national organizations, and working against the national interests of their own country?
What do you think?
They even die, for Russia… how many diplomats have died, have been killed on the job in the last year. Unless Madam M was misquoted she is out of step. I hope she is being corrected…
This great article made me fume.
Is there a law that would allow the president of the RF to clip her wings regarding her “personal foreign policy” , I don’t care if she is the 3rd most powerful politician in the RF. She seems to be parasite, a dangerous parasite. I would like to know the opinion of the Russian people regarding this “Triumvirate”.