Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,

Today marks five years – five long years – since the “attack” on Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England.

For those of you who may have had the details become obscure in three years of Covid fog, here is the “official story”:

This is the UK government’s “official version” of what happened.

Unvarnished and unsatirised. None of it is disputed, exaggerated or speculative.

It is the perfect example of a modern propaganda narrative. Convoluted, contradictory, and physically impossible.

It twines together familiar cliches.

The disputed and ever-evolving timeline, the timely bystander who happens to be a military officer, and the luckily timed “exercise” just prior.

These are all items on the “false flag” checklist since at least 9/11, if not before.

There are further details that render the story a true farce, and an obvious psy-op.

Reports that Skripal’s house was purchased for him by MI6 mean the idea there wasn’t constant surveillance of it absurd. If the “assassins” ever went to that house, there would be film of it.

The UK government issued censorship orders (“D notices”) for any mention of Pablo Miller, an MI6 agent, Skripal’s handler and neighbor.

Early reports that the Skripals were suffering from a fentanyl overdose were redacted after the fact.

In the years since the Skripal “attack” rolled out “Novichok” has been allegedly used again, this time on Alexei Navalny.

He didn’t die either. Completing the chemical’s transformation from an entirely hypothetical nerve agent, through the “deadliest neurotoxin” ever invented, to a “poison” that never, ever works.

Interestingly, the “novichok” poisoning actually foreshadowed Covid in a few weird ways.

There is the agent that is oddly efficiently identified by a lab, despite having no reference with which to identify it.

There is the chemical that we are told is SUPER DANGEROUS, and requires MAXIMUM PROTECTION…and yet people on the ground mill about without protecting themselves, and the deaths and illnesses never stack up with predictions.

There’s the well-timed exercise preceding the attack by only a few days.

There is the corporate media and pundits repeating buzz phrases like a hypnotist working a trick, or some religious mantra. Repeat after me, “there is no plausible alternative explanation”

But more interesting than that, is what comes next.

After all, now that Russia has shown they are willing to play along with globalist narratives, it may be time to “resolve” the Skripal issue.

Don’t be surprised if “new evidence” is leaked – by either side or both – in the near future. Or some agreement is made, or Sergei comes out of hiding.

Whatever happens, or whatever “new facts come to light”, it won’t ever be definitive of course. That’s important. It will just be kindling to keep the partisan fires burning.

Or, hell, maybe Russia will cop to it as part of some deal. Who knows anymore?

The Skripal “poisoning” was obviously bullshit when it happened, it is obviously bullshit now, and anything they choose to add will almost certainly be just more bullshit.

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Off-Guardian has covered the Skripal Case in detail over the years, you can read those archives here. We also recommend Rob Slane’s work over at the blogmire, and Tim Norman’s piece published on Propaganda in Focus.