Bellingcat is credulously described as a "cyber-sleuth, open-source investigative website." Far from being a campaigning independent media project, it is closely linked to British MI6 and the American CIA. Posing as a citizen-journalistic endeavor, Bellingcat gives Western military intelligence valuable cover for their propaganda. It has previously peddled fabricated reports on alleged Russian responsibility for downing the Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine in 2014, as well as alleged Russian complicity in chemical weapons atrocities in Syria.
Maybe the orchestrators of the Navalny false-flag operation thought they would be smart by creating a "dream team collective" to spin the latest twists. The thinking seems to have been to turn up the volume by packing the storytellers together, thereby giving the saga some badly needed credibility. So, Navalny personally teams up with Bellingcat, CNN and Der Spiegel to shoot the breeze about Novichok being slipped into his underpants. CNN follows up with "exclusive" interviews of Navalny over his FSB "sting" and Bellingcat chimes in with "confirmation."
What the orchestrators don't realize due to their propaganda bubble-existence is that they are just making it all the more apparent to anyone observing: that Navalny and his intelligence handlers are in bed with Western corporate media...and they're not wearing underpants.
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