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Andrew Korybko:
Dual American-Chilean national Gonzalo Lira was recently arrested by Ukraine’s secret police on charges pertaining to “wartime propaganda”, for which he faces the potential of 5-8 years in jail. The US Government’s (USG) silence on this incident completely contrasts with its hysteria over Wall Street Journal (WSJ) worker Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Russia last month on charges of espionage after he was caught red-handed soliciting classified military-industrial information from a regional lawmaker.
It is a betrayal of American principles because the freedom of speech is considered a sacred right of all its residents irrespective of where they is perhaps at any given time. No matter whatever one might take into consideration Lira’s views and the actual piece of Ukrainian laws that was cited as the premise for arresting him, the USG is presupposed to support the rights of its nationals abroad. This is very so at any time when they’re arrested for expressing an opinion and/or practicing journalism like he was.
Its silence within the face of this scandalous incident suggests a level of complicity in, or on the very least tacit approval of, Lira’s arrest since nothing else cogently explains the conspicuous lack of any response. These suspicions are further reinforced by the indisputable fact that one in all the USG’s leading information warfare assets in Ukraine, transgender mercenary Michael John Cirillo, admitted to the Each day Beast that he colluded with the SBU on its case against Lira and even plans to testify against him.
In his exact words, “I’ve already given my sworn statement to SBU about Gonzalo Lira several months ago and expect to be called as a witness in his prosecution.” Cirillo also added on Twitter that “Once I’m on Capitol Hill in 10 days, little question the arrest of Gonzalo Lira shall be a chief topic of conversation.” As a substitute of looking for his release, the USG is counting on one in all its top propagandists in that country to pursue Lira’s conviction, prior to which their proxy openly plans to boast about this to Congress.
It must also be noted that Cirillo told this to Julia Davis, who’s banned by Russia on the premise of getting worked against its national interests on the behest of hostile powers, which obviously refers back to the USG on this context. Her article also mentions that she obtained exclusive footage of Lira’s arrest, which could only have been obtained by the SBU, whose employees shared it along with her precisely because they know that she’s one in all their patron’s most reliable agents and would thus use it to humiliate Lira in her piece.
These facts result in the conclusion that the USG is indeed complicit in Ukraine’s arrest of this dual American national. It’s not even hiding its complicity in Lira’s persecution either after one in all its leading information warfare assets in that country admitted to colluding with the key police on this case, told the media that he plans to testify against him, and even plans to brag about this to Congress. The USG is perversely happy with this because it hopes to pressure critics of its proxy war into self-censoring.
This objective also clearly includes its own residents like Lira, who the USG hates with a passion since his brave reporting from Kharkov discredited lots of their claims about this conflict. It could have simply requested that Kiev deport him in an effort to lessen the damage that he’s inflicted on their information warfare operations, but it surely preferred to make an example out of him by pursuing his prosecution. Cirillo’s role on this incident and his plans to brag about it to Congress leave little question concerning the USG’ complicity.