[VO] On October 7, 2023,
the US declared its full support for Israel
in its war against the Arab world.
[VO] The US has waged wars in Iraq and Syria.
[VO] Hostilities have resulted in more than one million causalities.
[VO] Arab countries experienced years of civil war
after every US invasion.
RED ALERT WITH ANNA CHAPMAN THE ARAB SPRING
[Anna] Remember those awful images that shook the world?
[Anna] Thugs with manic eyes
and orange-clad hostages in fearful thrall
[Anna] Seeing that video, as well as emotion, something else came to mind: doubt
[Anna] How can savages produce such professional videos?
[Anna] Where in the Middle Eastern sands do they train media professionals?
[Anna] How much truth did US politicians speak then?
[Anna] How much truth now?
[Anna] How did the leading US minds first make Islam enemy number one?
[Anna] And then quickly reconsider
[Anna] Who are those smart terrorists sent to study in top Western universities?
[Anna] How does it feel to wreak havoc in the world by waging war
with no accountability?
[GEO] Al Atarib, Syria, February 6, 2023
[VO] A devastating earthquake in Syria.
[VO] More than six thousand dead, tens of thousands injured.
[VO] Hundreds of families were left homeless.
[VO] There is no heat or light in surviving buildings.
[VO] And medicines, food, and basic necessities are in short supply.
[Anna] Human catastrophe on that scale can't just be blamed on nature
[Anna] Once the US launched its conflict, the 'civilised' world ignored Syria
[Anna] In that tragedy, vocal human rights champions didn't call for sanctions
to be eased, and few offered aid
[Vanessa Beeley, UK Journalist]
[Vanessa] In reality the West exploited the earthquake
to increase the military pressure on Syria,
having already increased the economic pressure prior to the earthquake.
[Vanessa] So rather than demonstrate a humanitarian reflex,
the West demonstrated a reflex that actually meant the deaths of more Syrians.
[Vanessa] Syria for 12 years has been the victim
of one of the most savage multispectrum wars
that the US and the UK and the EU and their allies in the Gulf states,
and in Israel, and in Turkey have waged against Syria.
[VO] The independent journalist and blogger, Vanessa Beeley
[VO] The daughter of the former British Ambassador to Egypt.
speaks out against NATO aggression in the Middle East;
and exposes the Western propaganda machine
[Vanessa] Basically the US operates on a piracy policy
in the sense that it doesn’t form partnerships with sovereign nations,
unless those sovereign nations are prepared to ally themselves with the US
which then effectively means they are captive satellite states of the US.
[Vanessa] They have no sovereignty, they have no self-determination,
they have to comply with US agendas.
[Vanessa] If those countries resist US agendas
then they are targeted for destruction
either through hybrid warfare,
through direct military action as in for example Iraq.
[Vanessa] And what is the policy?
The policy is to effectively arrest all development of progressive countries,
[GEO] Kirkuk, Iraq 2014
[Vanessa] ...to return them to the dark ages,
[GEO] Kirkuk, Iraq 2014
to install regimes that are friendly to the United States.
[Vanessa] After 9/11, which, of course, was a manufactured event
that then led to the global war on terror,
during which terror has actually grown exponentially
under US-UK direction...
[GEO] George Bush’s Ranch, Texas, US, April 6, 2002
[Vanessa] So Syria after 9/11 was targeted for what Bush and Blair
described as “a different relationship”.
[Vanessa] They wanted to bring Bashar al-Assad over to the side of the West,
and in 2002, he was actually invited to the UK.
[Vanessa] And Tony Blair, who was then the prime minister,
proposed a knighthood for President Assad. [GEO] London, UK 2003
[Vanessa] So it was very clear at this time
that the West was courting President Assad
to try and get him to comply with Western agenda.
[GEO] Jableh, Syria, February 11, 2023
[VO] However, the leaders of this ancient country,
refused to be entangled with the International Monetary Fund,
or to give up their sovereignty, and break relations with Russia.
[Vanessa] And at that point
the propaganda against President Assad started.
[GEO] Aleppo, Syria, April 20, 2017
[VO] The price of the invasion; over six hundred thousand dead.
[VO] Air strikes, shelling, local clashes,
improvised explosives scattered everywhere,
and now, after the earthquake,
poverty and the threat of famine. But that's not all.
[Anna] More than 13 million refugees,
inflation now reaching 700 percent:
the fruits of NATO's invasion of Syria, where civilisation first emerged [GEO] Roj Refugee Camp, Syria 2018
[Anna] But who cares now?
[Anna] Western media described the attack on the peaceful country
as saving the people from tyranny, and against ISIS and al-Qaeda
[Anna] But in reality, NATO and its allies were funding terrorists
and destroying the Syrian government's army
[Barak Obama, US President (2009-2017)] …when Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people,
including hundreds of children.
[Obama] Men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poisoned gas…
[Scott] Syria had a very large chemical weapons program,
but the chemical weapons program was exclusively
as a deterrent to Israel’s nuclear capability,
meaning that if there was going to be a strategic conflict between Syria and Israel,
Syria would hold these chemical weapons in reserve.
[Scott] These weapons were never designed
to be used against Syrian population…
[Scott Ritter, Military Expert, UN Special Commission Inspector on Disarmament of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, 1991-1998]
[GEO] Kirkuk, Iraq 2014
[VO] Before invading Iraq, the US government told the world about the weapons of mass destruction
supposedly in the country, which posed a threat to the entire world.
[GEO] Tripoli, Libya 2023
[VO] Before destroying Libya,
they claimed it was imperative to overthrow the murderous tyrant Gaddafi,
as he was called in the West.
[Andrey Baklanov, Diplomat, Professor] If we use the term
that's used by diplomats and intelligence - 'spinning' -
the Americans do a great job
[Baklanov] They have a well-established system,
with numerous research and practical institutions
working to justify their existence there, a bigger presence,
and even armed campaigns in various parts of the world
[Vanessa] There is always some spurious pretext
for military or economic intervention to destabilize a target nation.
[Vanessa] The West's policy actually never takes into account
the human beings in the countries that they are targeting,
those human beings are irrelevant.
[VO] The chemical attacks narrative
served as the reason to launch the war in Syria.
[VO] Vanessa says the town of Douma, where the chemical attacks allegedly took place,
was controlled by terrorists of the Jaysh al-Islam group.
[VO] Murderous fanatics supported by the British government,
which also established the famous pseudo-humanitarian organisation
'The White Helmets.'
[VO] Vanessa discovered that the two groups worked in tendem to stage the attacks.
[GEO] Douma, Syria, April 7, 2018 Video by ‘White Helmets’
[VO] Russian diplomats knew the US was preparing public opinion
and planning new provocations to justify attacking Syria.
[VO] Russia suggested the Syrian government [GEO] Moscow, Russia September 2021
should destroy its chemical weapons stockpiles
under the supervision of an international commission.
[Scott] But the inspectors did their duty,
and the Syrians were certified
as having disposed of the totality of the material declared.
[Scott] But like as the case in Iraq,
the United States really didn’t want Syria to be disarmed.
[Scott] The United States, France, Great Britain did attack Syria,
claiming that they had hard intelligence of facilities
that were used in support of this use of sarin nerve agent.
[Scott] But then the OPCW investigation came out and said,
“There is no sarin, no sarin was used.”
[VO] Scott Ritter, from Gainesville, Florida,
is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer in the
who served as a UN weapons inspector to Iraq, 1991-1998.
[Scott] And I was instructed that I had to create a crisis by a given date,
so that bombs and missiles could be fired
[Scott] And I made it clear, that I would do my job, I would do my duty.
[GEO] Baghdad, Iraq US Military Base 2010
[VO] 'There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,'
Ritter told his superiors.
[VO] But that didn't stop the US from launching an invasion in 2003.
IRAQ
GEORGE W. BUSH, US PRESIDENT, 2001–2009
[VO] For more than a decade, the United States and other nations
have pursued patient and honourable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war.
Our good faith has not been returned.
[Scott] They say, we’re seeking a war to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
[Scott] Now people will say “Why did they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein?”
Saddam was our friend, and our ally, and now we want to go to war against them.
[Scott] Many people are saying that was about oil,
which it was about oil.
[Scott] So, we were literally going to war about oil, but we couldn’t say that.
[Scott] So, we had to explain why we’re going to war against somebody we called a friend…
[GEO] Baghdad, Iraq, US Military Base 2010
[GEO] New York, US, September 11, 2001
[Anna] Then came 9/11 and the crazed search for blame
[Anna] Iraq was at risk from the start. Washington was not at all happy
that Hussein, despite losing to Operation Desert Storm,
was still in power in Iraq...
and ramped up the search for weapons of mass destruction
[Richard Black, Virginia State Senator (2012 - 2020), Colonel, Ret.]
[Richard] We have seen a period of enormous aggressiveness
by the US and the Western powers.
[VO] US Republican Party politician, Richard Black,
Virginia State Senator 2012-2020.
[VO] A former head of the US Army's Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon.
[VO] And a consistent critic of US and UK foreign policy.
[Richard] And I remember Colin Powell in the United Nations,
and he had been provided with a test tube with sort of a greenish material.
[Richard] People have said that Colin Powell –
he really didn't believe at the time that he was shaking this
in front of the entire United Nations.
[VO] Two years later, Powell called that speech 'a blot on his record.'
[VO] 'The information – some of the information, not all of it – was wrong.
[VO] Do I regret it? Of course.'
[GEO] Baghdad, Iraq, US Military Base 2010
[VO] Hostilities are said to have ended on April 9, 2003, when US troops took Baghdad.
[VO] On May 1 of that year,
President Bush triumphantly declared
the coalition's victory from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
[VO] 'Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.'
[Anna] That moment saw the start of a long civil war
and new radical Islamist groups
[Anna] Soon, the world heard of war crimes and torture
[Anna] And then another war,
after which the US remained in Iraq until 2011
[Anna] Executing Hussein was the point of no return
[Anna] The US began to undermine statehood all over the Middle East
[VO] Countries are bled dry.
[VO] People are losing everything.
Westerners, duped by propaganda,
continue to applaud the US crusades.
[VO] Stanislav Krapivnik learned from experience
of America's ruthless methods of waging wars around the world
[VO] Veteran US Army officer, Stanislav Krapivnik,
lived his entire adult life in the US
but decided to return to Russia.
[Stanislav Krapivnik, Retired US Military Officer]
[Stanislav] When we were in the USSR, Dad was a liberal dissident
[Stanislav] He believed in all that when we went to America
[Stanislav] As a kid, I didn't really get it,
but he often said maybe the Soviet press wasn't so bad after all
[Stanislav] And when he saw that liberalism, he didn't like it very much
[Stanislav] No roots, no religion, no...
no nothing, no history, effectively
just a creature:
consumers, workers, well, worker ants!
[GEO] Moscow, Russia 2023
[VO] Since childhood, Stanislav wanted to join the military,
and despite being Russian, he did very well in the US Army.
[Stanislav] In early 1991, I joined up as a cadet
[Stanislav] In 1993, I became a private in the army reserve,
and in 1995, I became an officer
[Stanislav] An officer in...
the regular army
[VO] But what lay ahead for the young officer, was a bitter disappointment
[GEO] Tripoli, Libya 2023
[VO] The plan to undermine the autonomy of the Middle East
was hatched in the early 2000s.
[VO] A global project thought out to the last detail.
[VO] After the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR,
the US urgently needed a new enemy.
[Vyacheslav Matuzov, Diplomat, President, Society for Friendship and Business Partnership with Arab Countries]
[Vyacheslav] Bush, Condoleezza Rice,
from 2001 until 2005,
led the main charge!
[Vyacheslav] This was their thesis:
with the collapse of world communism,
the Americans thought they'd won the Cold War
[Vyacheslav] Only us, only we, are indispensable...
[Vyacheslav] And the greatest enemy for America today is Islam. The Islamic religion
[Vyacheslav] They were already preparing an alternative to al-Qaeda and Bin Laden
[Vyacheslav] They were working on the Islamic State: ISIS
[Vyacheslav] That was their doing too
[VO] After 2001, all US actions were aimed at regime change in the Middle East. [GEO] Damascus, Syria, June 28, 2023
[VO] Soon after, an organisation called 'Business for Diplomatic Action' appeared.
[VO] Its goal was to ensure cooperation between business and government,
mainly in the field of foreign affairs.
[VO] Members of this organisation
planned and implemented the regime changes in the Middle East
[Vyacheslav] Roughly 20 corporations
of the US military-industrial complex, excuse me...
[Vyacheslav] Leading American universities,
starting with Harvard, Massachusetts, and so on
[VO] And also advertising reps from the major ad agencies.
[VO] If you want to reshape public opinion
and plant new ideas in people's minds,
you need professional ad men.
[Vyacheslav] Saatchi & Saatchi in the UK is part of the Tory Party's leadership
[Vyacheslav] And the president of Saatchi & Saatchi
created the 'Iron Lady' image for...
[Vyacheslav] Margaret Thatcher
[Vyacheslav] He writes frankly that he was
somewhat surprised when he received an invitation
to attend...
a secret, closed-door meeting...
of the US military intelligence communities in New York
[VO] Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts told the Pentagon
how to spin the war on terrorism.
[VO] His advice: 'Call our struggle, the Fight for a Better World.
They should change their language.
The 'Fight for a Better World' is more inclusive,
more optimistic and more engaging.'
[Vyacheslav] They convened a meeting, and invited him there,
so he could advise them what to do
'You're an ad-man,
you promote goods everywhere...
you create image...
you practise politics in the UK, in the Conservative Party'
[Vyacheslav] He says, 'I told them it was stupid
[Vyacheslav] You can't!
[Vyacheslav] How can the US declare the entire Islamic world an enemy?
[Vyacheslav] The religion of Islam!
[Vyacheslav] It's stupid! We should change it.' He went on, 'I suggested...
a different idea as an American basis:
fighting for democracy
against corrupt dictators, for human freedom and liberation'
[VO] We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace.
[VO] We will defend our freedom.
[VO] We will bring freedom to others
[VO] These are examples of how Western media promoted the new policies.
[Presenter] This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
[VO] Public opinion, modified by professional propaganda,
was changing as desired not only in the Western countries.
[VO] The people of the Middle East were indoctrinated as well.
[Vyacheslav] An advert...
for Arab students:
'Come to America this summer
to sign up for courses on...
democracy'
[Vyacheslav] Young Arab leaders...
[Vyacheslav] Does that say the word 'Russia' to you?
[Anna] Absolutely it does
[Anna] Absolutely!
[Vyacheslav] It's a carbon copy!
[Vyacheslav] Young Arab leaders receive $12,000
from the organisation, 'Business for Diplomatic Action'
[Vyacheslav] And for three months...
[Vyacheslav] American Airlines
takes them to America, where they receive training
[Vyacheslav] And after that,
you see these characters
during massive 'spontaneous' demonstrations by the people
against the despot, Hosni Mubarak, a tyrant...
and so on...
[GEO] Tunisia 2011
[VO] This is how the Arab Spring, and a 'Rose' and the 'Orange' revolutions were prepared.
[VO] In the same way they've long been plotting against Russia. [GEO] Moscow, Russia, July 20, 2019
[Scott Bennett, Political Scientist, Retired US Military Intelligence Officer]
[Scott] But that 9/11 event set America on a course of destruction
and it set it on a course of destroying the Middle East regimes
and the countries and the cultures of Afghanistan, of Iraq, of Libya, of Syria
[VO] Scott Bennett is a retired officer.
[VO] He worked with the CIA and the US Agency for International Development.
[VO] During his work, he discovered a great deal of evidence
of dozens of crimes against humanity
committed by the United States.
LIBYA
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE, LIBYA, 1960–1980
[Scott Bennett] Well, Libya was indeed one of the most prosperous countries in Africa.
[Scott Bennett] And it was Muammar Gaddafi’s agenda
to separate from the petrodollar
and create a gold-backed dinar,
which inevitably led to the US, NATO, European Union
mafia cabal to kill him
at the edge of a bayonet and overthrow his country.
[Anna] The West's recent history is a series of war crimes
[Anna] Their 'good' destroyed whole countries, reduced locals to poverty,
destroyed cultural heritage, social infrastructure, and homes
[Anna] One victim of America's 'good-deeds' was sovereign Libya,
one of the continent's most prosperous countries:
a strong society, no inflation, comfortable and modern homes,
perfect roads and lush gardens
[Anna] Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ejected the US and British armies
and other Western influences
[Anna] Oil revenues, which had been split between the Western 'partners',
were rerouted for the country's benefit. Then what happened?
[Anna] A familiar situation!
[Anna] Libya was soon on the 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' list
[Scott Bennett] I know first-hand that the Qataris were used
by the CIA as well as the Wahhabists,
the same Wahhabists that were used by the United States
in the Serbian, Moldova, Yugoslavia conflicts
between 1992 and 1995.
[Scott Bennett] The same fanatics were trained by the US CIA to go into Libya
and overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s regime,
because he was separating from the US economic model.
[VO] In 1969, after a revolution,
a military led by Muammar Gaddafi came to power in Libya.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE, LIBYA, 1960–1980
[VO] Almost immediately, he expelled all Western colonisers from the country.
[VO] Having achieved full independence,
the nation chose its own path and moved towards the long-awaited revival.
[VO] But the West did not accept this.
[Richard] Libya was the most prosperous nation in Africa,
people were tremendously happy,
and we went in and under the pretext,
undermining the government with tremendous propaganda
we promoted a terrorist uprising in Benghazi,
where the terrorist began taking ordinary civil servants:
mail carriers, the ladies, who made out the social security checks…
and they took them up to the tops of buildings,
and they threw them off the buildings.
[Richard] And Colonel Gaddafi said “we’re going to send it an armed force to restore order”,
and that was portrayed by the West
as some sort of an active aggression.
[Richard] And then we declared this no-fly zone,
and under the guise of that we launched a fantastic
bombing attack on Libya,
that ultimately destroyed the entire civilization.
[Richard] We looted 214 tons of gold,
and many other resources that Libya had,
nobody knows exactly where it’s gone.
[Anna] Why do you think the Western countries
carried out an operation against Libya and Muammar Gaddafi?
[Scott Ritter, Military Expert, UN Special Commission Inspector on Disarmament of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, 1991-1998]
[Scott] This is, this is more complicated.
[Scott] Because there is some intrigue involving France
and its relationship with Gaddafi and illegal funding that went on with the French president Sarkozy
[Scott] What I know is this,
that he made the decision to get rid of all the weapons of mass destruction
in exchange for the West bringing him into the international community,
lifting the sanctions, et cetera.
[Scott] So the irony is that Gaddafi was doing everything possible
to cooperate with the West,
to be a responsible member of the international community.
[Scott] But the decision was made to get rid of him.
[Scott] And again, I think this decision was driven by France, maybe Italy,
other European nations that had invested economic interest in Libya,
especially in the area of energy security.
[Scott] The United States weighed in,
and the end result was an act of NATO aggression.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE, LIBYA, 1960–1980
[VO] Gaddafi was one of history's most impressive statesmen.
[VO] A lot happened in the 42 years he lead Libya.
[VO] The Americans began shooting down Libyan aircrafts as early as 1981.
[VO] In 1982, they put an embargo on Libyan oil.
[VO] In 1986, under a false pretext,
they bombed the country for the first time.
[VO] Gaddafi's four-year-old daughter died in that bombing.
[VO] What was it that irritated Reagan's administration so much?
[Anna] The most prosperous country on the continent...
[Anna] The richest!
[Anna] Its highest priority was,
for many years, the people's well-being
[Anna] Please tell us, as a Middle-East specialist,
what Gaddafi's mistake was
[Andrey Baklanov, Diplomat, Professor] Did Gaddafi make mistakes? Of course!
[Baklanov] But they weren't why he was taken out
[Baklanov] It was due to his achievements
[Baklanov] There were a lot of opportunities
to enjoy social benefits
[Baklanov] For example, higher salaries and so on
[Baklanov] Gaddafi...
was born in a country
that's the only one of the Arab nations
and one of the few African countries
to have real water resources
[Baklanov] People always say it was because of oil
that the West destroyed the country. No!
[Baklanov] First of all,
they destroyed it because it could give other Arab countries
access to water resources
[Baklanov] Gaddafi made plans to increase agricultural production substantially
[Baklanov] They had a favourable climate and supply of water
[Baklanov] The two key factors for large-scale production were there in the country
[Baklanov] He'd have flooded markets with farm produce,
first Europe and then the world
[Baklanov] So, to stop him flooding the market with quality produce
at low prices, they slapped his wrist
[Anna] A more valuable resource than oil was the aggressors' main objective
[Anna] Gaddafi's 'Man-Made River' was
the biggest modern construction project ever
[VO] In the 1960s, in the Libyan part of Sahara Desert,
four gigantic water reservoirs were discovered;
containing many thousands cubic kilometres of the purest water.
[Anna] Gaddafi dreamed of revamping arid parts of Libya, Egypt, Sudan, & Chad
[VO] Gaddafi was tough, inconvenient, and forthright.
[VO] He built a state where death penalty was widely used.
[VO] Literally, for wrong thinking.
[VO] He built a cult of personality even larger scale than Stalin's.
[VO] But he truly cared about his country.
MUAMMAR GADDAFI, LEADER OF LIBYA, 1970–2011
[VO] Why the invasion and destruction of Iraq and for the killing of one million Iraqis?
[VO] Let our American friends answer this question.
[VO] Why Iraq? What is the reason? Is Bin Laden Iraqi? No, he's not.
[VO] Were those who attacked New York Iraqis?
[VO] No, they were not. Were those who attacked the Pentagon Iraqis?
[VO] No. Along comes a foreign power, occupies an Arab country
and hangs its president,
and we all sit on the sidelines, laughing.
[VO] Any one of you might be next.
[Anna] In early 2011, in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' inspired by the West,
and after revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, civil unrest began in Libya,
which fast became a civil war
[Anna] In February, the UN Security Council agreed a resolution
to freeze the assets of Gaddafi and his entourage
[VO] Russia tried to correct this mistake.
[VO] In March 2011, Russia, China, and, curiously, Germany
already abstained from voting for the UNSC Resolution on establishing a no-fly zone
and further invasion.
[VO] But it was too late.
[VO] Then-Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin
roundly condemned the West.
[Putin] I am concerned by the ease with which decisions are made [GEO] Votkinsk, Russia, March 21, 2011
[Putin] During the Clinton era, they bombed
Yugoslavia and Belgrade
[Putin] Bush sent soldiers into Afghanistan,
and then the US sent forces into Iraq under a false pretext
[Putin] Now it's Libya's turn,
to falsely protect a peaceful people
[Putin] But their airstrikes will kill that very same population
[Putin] Where's the logic and conscience?
[Putin] They don't have either
[VO] 18 countries took part in the invasion
and Russia could't prevent. [GEO] Sirte, Libya
[VO] Only Belarus gave Libya a little help
by sending a military specialist unofficially
[VO] The operation, conducted by the US
as usual playing the role of first fiddle
was dubbed 'Odyssey Dawn'.
[VO] US air strikes statistics in Libya.
[VO] 136 cruise missile attacks since the beginning of this air assault
[VO] An estimated cost of 136 million dollars.
[VO] More than 50 attacks were made from combat aircrafts.
[VO] B-2 stealth bombers dropped more than 40 tonnes of bombs.
[GEO] Sirte, Libya
[VO] On March 19, 2011,
the US Navy and UK forces,
using the 'Tomahawk' missiles,
suppressed Libya's main air-defence bases.
[VO] Fires started at oil storage facilities,
a cardiology centre was destroyed,
and roads and bridges damaged.
[VO] On the night of May 1,
Gaddafi's youngest son and three of his grandchildren were killed
in a bombing attack.
[VO] The last major confrontatoin was the Battle of Sirte in 2011.
[VO] On the eve of the final assault,
Gaddafi was captured and executed
— officially, by the so-called opposition.
[Vyacheslav] I still see the picture to this day [Anna] The execution?
[Vyacheslav] 'Execution' is too weak a term. I recall how they brutalised him
[Vyacheslav] I mean those barefoot,
as they called themselves, 'revolutionaries'...
a Kalashnikov, a bayonet on the rifle...
and...
flip-flops
[Vyacheslav] You believe that soldiers that crushed the Libyan Army wore flip-flops?
[Vyacheslav] The Americans beat them!
[Vyacheslav] Nicolas Sarkozy told the truth:
NATO could not have defeated Gaddafi's army
[Vyacheslav] Only the US Army could have
[Vyacheslav] So, the picture is this:
one of those barefoot… The bloody, tortured, face...
of Gaddafi, still alive,
surrounded by that barefoot crowd in flip-flops
[Vyacheslav] And one of them sticks a bayonet into him, in the soft parts,
though his face is already battered and bloodied
[Vyacheslav] That's one side of the TV screen, and on the other...
it's CNN's pictures,
a side-by-side screen
[Vyacheslav] The figure...
of John McCain
who openly says, 'Vladimir!
look...
this is what awaits you!'
[VO] After Sirte was captured,
mass executions of Gaddafi's supporters took place
[VO] Most of the bodies that were found had their hands tied, shot in the head.
[VO] Following Gaddafi's death,
the NATO's military operation was wound down.
[VO] There government authorities had ceased to exist.
and Libya descended into terror and the chaos of civil war.
[VO] Hostilities only halted in 2020,
while today, a unified Libya is non-existent.
[Vanessa Beeley, UK Journalist]
[Vanessa] The main similarity between Libya and Syria
that I would immediately pinpoint
is that of course, Gaddafi,
who was murdered by the West,
actually was, one, promoting pan-Arabism and pan-Africanism,
so the unity of Arab states and the unity of African states.
[Vanessa] He was also a progressive leader in his country,
and actually his country in Africa was probably the most developed
prior to the destruction of Libya by NATO member states.
[Vanessa] And in a very similar way,
Syria under President Bashar al-Assad.
SYRIA
[VO] In 2004, President Assad announced a grandiose energy policies,
the 'Four Seas'.
Designed to unite Syria, Türkiye, Iran, Iraq, and Azerbaijan
with a single oil and gas transport system
with access to the Mediterranean Sea.
[Vanessa] Which was to make Syria the hub for trade globally,
in other words, to create a multi-polar world,
with Syria as the hub for the supply of energy
and food resources and economic resources.
[Scott Ritter] And if you’ve seen, the American defence budget
just continues to rise,and rise, and rise.
[Scott] We need conflicts to justify this.
[Scott] And when the Cold War ended, we no longer had the Soviet Union as a threat.
[Scott] Russia was weakened, so we had to go in search of enemies, in search of wars.
[Scott] And this is why you get the Iraq war,
you get the Libyan conflict,
you get the Syrian conflict,
you get tensions with Iran,
now we are getting tensions with...
with China, in the South China Sea, in Taiwan.
[Scott] And of course, now, after Afghanistan,
the failure of Afghanistan, we have the new,
the newly resurrected crisis with Russia,
that is now manifesting itself in a conflict in Ukraine,
where American defence manufacturers
are bringing in all time profits.
[Scott] I mean, if one takes a look at the salaries of the CEOs of these companies,
you know, they are making $23-25 million a year.
[Scott] That doesn’t come for free.
[Scott] They need to produce things to get this money.
[VO] From the end of World War II until 2001,
the United States initiated 201 out of 248 armed conflicts
breaking out in 153 regions,
accounting for more than 80 percent of all wars that took place throughout that time.
BARACK OBAMA, US PRESIDENT, 2009-2017
[VO] America is leading the world.
[VO] We are the one indispensable nation.
[VO] We have unique capabilities that nobody else has.
[VO] America's army is the best force on the planet.
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE, LIBYA, 1960-1980s
[VO] The US not only collects data on strategy,
weapons, and troop numbers for each of their targets,
but also studies their command in detail.
[VO] This happened in Syria, Libya, and Iraq.
[VO] Russia also found itself in the corss
They were always preparing for war with Russia
[Stanislav Krapivnik, Retired US Military Officer] When they played various games, war games, at headquarters level,
everything was always against the Russian Army,
and they used Russian generals' profiles. That's also interesting
[Stanislav] It was a night shift,
the top brass were asleep, nothing much happening
[Stanislav] Out of boredom, I began to surf the internal internet network...
the Military Intranet
[Stanislav] I stumbled across a folder containing the bios of all Russian generals:
very detailed, who their Defence Ministry and political friends are,
who their enemies are, their habits, who's a womaniser, who's a drinker,
who's religious, and so on
[Stanislav] Complete personal profiles, clearly leaked
[Stanislav] It isn't stuff you can look up on Wikipedia
[Stanislav] Not at that level, this is private, personal information
[Stanislav] They'd built profiles of who was who,
and clearly it all came from the CIA
[VO] Stanislav found the constant preparation for a war with Russia unbearable.
[VO] He retired from the US Army, moved to Russia, and began a new life.
[VO] A glance at the world map
is enough for even a schoolchild
to answer a few simple questions:
who covered the world with military bases?
[VO] Who's building up its nuclear capabilities?
[VO] Who overthrows regimes
and establishes its might all over on the planet?
[VO] Who threatens and destroys with impunity
the so-called undesirable people?
[Anna] In its number of wars, the US is way ahead of any other country
[Anna] They are almost never justified by self-defence
[Anna] The main goal is profit,
seizing new lands, and political or economic influence
[Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s Permanent UN Representative] Of course, we can't compete with the US
on the number of invasions...
[GEO] USA, New York, February 25, 2022
of neighbours
[Nebenzya] I'll refrain from listing the US's aggressions throughout its history
[Nebenzya] And you teach us morals?
[Anna] Experts estimate that, since gaining independence,
the United States has attacked someone once a year on average
[Anna] Major and minor conflicts, and always for a reason:
'protecting American citizens',
'saving democracy', or 'fighting terrorism'
[GEO] USA, Washington, February 7, 2023
[Biden] Our nation's working for more freedom,
more dignity, more peace.
[Biden] Not just in Europe – but anywhere.
[VO] Can the planet take any more of the American peace?
[VO] After Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Ukraine?
[VO] Who's next in line for 'democracy and freedom'?
[Biden] We are ready. We are united! [GEO] USA, Washington, March 1, 2022
[Biden] And that's what we did: we stayed united!
[Anna] For 78 days, NATO aircraft devastated Belgrade
[Anna] Depleted uranium shells and cluster bombs
were intentionally - even official NATO data confirms it -
dropped on residential areas, schools, churches, and hospitals
[VO] Stanislav travelled half the world with US missions.
[VO] He served in Germany, Macedonia, and Bosnia.
[VO] He commanded a tank platoon in the US itself,
before becaming a military adviser in Georgia.
[VO] All this time, he watched conflicts break out
boasted by American propaganda.
[Stanislav] My homeland and historical homeland is here, I'm from Lugansk
[Stanislav] I left after I began to understand more
[Stanislav] My main reason for leaving was political [GEO] Moscow, Russia 2023
[Stanislav] I saw we were still preparing for war against Russia
[Stanislav] It was the early 2000s, and they spoke of friendship and all that
[Stanislav] But I saw where it was all heading
[Stanislav] When I got back in 2010, I told them, people who should've listened,
those in a position to listen, that war would come
[Stanislav] War would come, and it did
[VO] After returning home,
Stanislav and his wife opened a small pizzeria,
to which he kindly invited our film crew.
[Stanislav] I opened a pizzeria because I knew the business. I worked...
in a pizzeria as a chef when I was 16
[VO] But Stanislav hasn't forgotten military affairs.
[VO] He is now a well–known military expert.
[VO] This retired American officer is now helping the Russian army.
[Stanislav] I do several different things:
we collect goods for the front,
and I run training sessions for our volunteers
[Stanislav] Our church has plenty of land
[Stanislav] It gave our Cossack unit part of the land, a couple of hectares
[Stanislav] We train there
[VO] While living for much of one's life in the USA,
speaking English perfectly,
Russian with an accent,
building a house, making friends and connections there,
it's still possible to remain Russian.
[Stanislav] I was never American. It's an interesting thing
[Stanislav] I never assimilated and always, somehow, planned to return
[Anna] Why did you leave in the end? [Stanislav] Well, when I served…
[Stanislav] Of course, at some level in college, when I got my diploma...
my first diploma, I saw how they were brainwashed
[Stanislav] That's standard American policy
[Stanislav] But when I started travelling in Yugoslavia and Bosnia...
[Stanislav] Serbian is a close language, I spoke to the locals
[Stanislav] It was clear I'd heard outright lies
[Stanislav] My eyes began to open in 1999, when they began to bomb Serbia
[Stanislav] I had a number of Serbian friends at my church,
so I saw that too. America helped bring in
the Islamists they imported
[Stanislav] The same thing happened in Chechnya and Kosovo
[Stanislav] They were 'ISIS pros', the sort of people banned in normal countries
[GEO] Tunisia 2011
[VO] Hybrid wars, inciting anti-government revolts,
supplying weapons and ammunition,
and training militants.
[VO] Even the merciless ISIS,
–that Europeans whispered about –
turned out to be linked to the main 'fighters against terrorism.'
[Anna] American elites' main goal was to weaken or destroy disloyal regimes in
[Anna] Europe and the Middle East. They see global hegemony as the only
acceptable scenario
[Anna] The desire to rule the world
didn't just cause ISIS to emerge, but it strengthened Islamist positions
[Anna] The US undermined Iraq's statehood and other regional nations
[Anna] It supported radical groups,
and produced another monster as a result
[VO] In 1997, in his book 'The Grand Chessboard,'
Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that the US would lead the Islamisation process
and promote the spread of radical Islam.
[VO] Chaos in Middle East, romantically dubbed the 'Arab Spring,'
spiralled out of control in 2012.
[VO] The Muslim Brotherhood seized power in Egypt,
while the groups that defeated Gaddafi in Libya
warred among themselves.
[GEO] Tel Meleh, Syria 2019
[VO] And parts of Syria and Iraq
have become hotbeds for international terrorism.
[Richard] Same thing: we moved into Syria,
we promoted an uprising by al-Qaeda militants –
the same group that had bombed the Twin Towers on 9/11, –
now we were allied with them,
supporting them to overthrow
the legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad.
[Richard] And it’s always been with great deception:
we went into Iraq under the guise of weapons of mass destruction,
and yet the people who promoted that narrative
knew at that time, that there was nothing to it.
[Richard] So, we have… we’ve done this, we’ve promoted war after war, after war…
[Richard] None of it has really benefited the American people.
[Richard] But it has benefited a global elite.
[VO] Former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband
confirmed that the emergence of ISIS
was facilitated by the military operation in Iraq,
launched by the US and the UK.
[VO] Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
admitted in an interview
that the US and allieed invasion
was one of the key reasons that triggered the emergence of ISIS.
TONY BLAIR, UK PRIME MINISTER, 1997-2007
[VO] I can say that I apologise for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong…
[VO] I also apologise for some of the mistakes in planning
and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding
of what would happen once you removed the regime.
[GEO] Baghdad, Iraq, US Military Facility 2010
[VO] US president Barack Obama was also forced to confess that
the US invasion of Iraq
and mistakes made during this process
were one of the causes of the emergence of the ISIS.
[Scott Bennett] Well, let’s always remember ISIS,
Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Da’ish –
they are all forms of the Wahhabi fanatical elements
that are easily bought off,
purchased, trained, from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and elsewhere.
[Scott Bennett] And they’ve been used in Afghanistan against Russia in the 1980s,
[Scott Bennett] They were used as the dominant scapegoat
for the 9/11 attacks
which of course have been completely false.
[Scott Bennett] They were then used for
applications against Syria,
against Libya, Muammar Qaddafi.
[Scott Bennett] So the Al-Nusra, Da’ish, Al-Qaeda Wahhabists
that are used by the United States,
trained within the United States,
are certainly amplified by drug use,
they are given Captagon,
they are given methamphetamines,
they are given all sorts of other inducements.
DONALD TRUMP, US PRESIDENT, 2017-2021
[VO] I call President Obama and Hillary Clinton the founders of ISIS.
[VO] ISIS will hand them the most valuable player award.
[Frants Klintsevich, Head, Russian Union of Afghan War Veterans, Military Expert] Where does a Lt. Colonel go after 20 years of service,
if he's only qualified for the army and waging war?
[Frants] He can't be a businessman, a teacher... nothing!
[Frants] And, of course,
many officers who were devoted to their country were simply cast aside
[Frants] American agents arranged this situation... uncovered these things
[Frants] They formed a backbone from them
and recruited them from around the world,
including from among our own, and mobilised them into ISIS
[Frants] And one political scientist told the truth:
talking to a Russian journalist around 20 years ago, he said,
[Frants] 'You don't get one thing...
we can always find 5 million people,
who, for $200-300, just to stay employed, will go anywhere and fight'
[Anna] They do it for $200?
[Frants] Where they live, $50 is the minimum wage,
so for them $200 or $300 is big money
[Vanessa] So, it was clear from the beginning that the West was involved in the,
let’s say, support, and equipping, and arming of these terrorist groups,
extremist groups, and sectarian groups.
[Vanessa] We had the mysterious disappearance of weapons
that were sent to the Free Syrian Army
and that somehow ended up in the hands of groups like ISIS.
[Andrey Baklanov, Diplomat, Professor] It's interesting that, for some reason,
the headquarters of various Arab, Muslim, and Asian...
their leading radical organisations
are located on British and United States soil
[Baklanov] It seems that, in general, international terrorism plans
are fomented in rich countries, in normal working conditions...
by people on good pay who prepare and invent it all
[Baklanov] I remember on my first trip to the UK,
I visited one of those, more or less, radical organisations,
and it was all out in the open
[Baklanov] I said to my driver: 'We must find the address and call in advance'
[Baklanov] I thought the organisation would be somewhere far away,
on the outskirts of London
[Baklanov] He said: 'I checked, it's five minutes away'
'How?' He says: 'In Victoria'
[Baklanov] 'What, Victoria? Where every centimetre costs a small fortune?!'
[VO] Headquarters in elite areas,
generous supplies of weapons and money.
[VO] Global terrorism's comfortable existence
depends on the support of the most prominent
fighter against terrorism in the world.
[Frants] In 2019-2020,
in Afghanistan, and in Kandahar, there were only 12 ISIS members
[Frants] Then, the US military began to move Russian-speaking
[Frants] ISIS operatives with their families
[Frants] They took them to Afghanistan, where there are now more than 30,000
[Frants] They have no specific task yet, but they're held, prepared and controlled
[Frants] They lie there waiting
[Frants] They'll be sent to destabilise Central Asian republics
[GEO] Afghanistan, Kabul 2021
[Frants] When our journalists, especially the 'experts', say:
'They didn't flee, and it's not that they couldn't'
[Frants] I say: 'Don't you even see it?'
[Frants] They spent $2 trillion, and left weapons worth $100 billion
[Frants] The Americans simply gave it all away
[Frants] In the near future, Central Asia will 'explode',
when destabilisation starts from there
[Anna] They're masters of deception
[Anna] The US is allowed to kill
[Anna] It doesn't need UNSC backing, public approval, or any other excuse
[Anna] No one has tried to calculate the number of victims of all their wars
[Anna] They were 'humanitarian missions for democracy and freedom'!
[Anna] At least that's the message approved by their ad agencies