CCTV FOLLIES 2.20 THE KREMLIN EDITION
Russia quotient reeks -Aerial battle shots, valiant Russian tanks and missiles in action, but real "scoop" is expose of how the US uses chemical weapons to prop up puppet Ukraine -Xi in Xiamen
CCTV is brimming with hot takes on Russia today. Everything from Kremlin-curated footage of the war zone (though the word war never comes into it) to shocking allegations by Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov, Chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of Ukrainian chemical weapons attacks and nefarious US plans to deploy a “chemical belt.”
After successfully taking control of Avdiivka* Russia troops make a shocking discovery
*Editor’s note. The Ukrainian spelling is used in keeping with the Follies stylesheet.
Western-produced bullets and other war materiel and weapons have been found!
It’s so unfair for Russia to be collectively victimized by a group of eastward-expanding NATO bullies and Ukrainian Nazis.
It’s so unfair! What more proof do you want?
Russia did a lot of hard work to free Avdiivka from the cruel Ukrainian yoke.
Russia saved the Ukrainian city by destroying it through denazification.
Peace under Russian rule has been bestowed upon Avdiivka.
The future is looking bright.
But it’s not over yet. Ukraine hold-outs and guerilla remnants fight back.
Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov, Chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops uncovers a nefarious Western plot!
“The Kiev regime, with the assistance of its Western curators, is developing new combat operations tactics with the use of a ‘special chemical belt’," he said.
"It stipulates a detonation of containers with hydrocyanic acid and ammonia during the advance of Russian troops."
Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov stated that between September and October 2023 the chemicals were delivered to the areas near the cities of Kramatorsk and Kupyansk and were planned to be planted along the motorways at major transport intersections. (Tass)
CCTV’s evening news presented three full-color charts detailing Russia’s allegations of Ukraine’s use of US produced of chemical weapons. The illustrated charts are in Russian but that does not matter for the average CCTV viewer who is accustomed to being told what to think.
Editor’s note: There is no connection between the “chemical belt” which is bad,
and China’s Belt and Road scheme, which is good.
Kirillov seems to think he has found a smoking gun which proves Russia is good and the US and its client state of Ukraine is bad. The truth in the accusations is difficult to ascertain, though even Tass is careful to say “according to our information” which is hardly a slam-dunk proof. The Tass report also stresses that these were mostly planned attacks rather than actual attacks.
In any case, the Chinese viewer is left no wiser, except perhaps for that bitter feeling in the mouth for US perfidy, hegemony and meddling in Russia’s domain.
As if to drive home the point, CCTV airs footage of US chemical weapons in production and in handling, presumably file footage from American sources.
Iran Foreign Ministry’s Nasser Kanaani gets a few words in on the mideast crisis.
In other foreign news, China builds a bridge in Cambodia
And the Russia top-heavy foreign news section closes with images from Afghanistan!Afghanistan is no longer a staple of Western coverage and images of its current condition are in short supply in the Western media market these days. Bad weather and a landslide captured by phone cameras is publicized by CCTV below.
The highlight of today’s domestic news was Xi of course, but the most recent picture shown dates back several decades. When his rotundity is indisposed, or taking a day off, or lying low to hide from domestic enemies and critics, CCTV fills the gap with happy puff pieces about the paramount leader’s illustrious past.
Xi Jinping as a young cadre in Xiamen not long after he emerged from a long stint in a dusty cave in Yanan. With help from mom, he moved east to jumpstart his career.
The dashing young Xi Jinping making friends and influencing people.
Xiamen has never been the same since Xi set foot in the place.
Who would have thought a young man who emerged from a cave suffering Stockholm syndrome from the abuses of capricious Leninist party that ravaged his family, humiliated his father Xi Zhongxun and refused son Xi Jinping’s irrepressible and somewhat perverse desire to join (he eventually got accepted into the youth league after no less than seven attempts) would one day rise to the top of said party?
It doesn’t seem possible, but there’s proof of progress in the glossy pictures on CCTV. Xiamen has developed beyond belief in recent decades and is unrecognizable in parts.
Forty years of hard work on the part of millions of Fujianese probably has something to do with that, as does vigorous trade, investment and import of talent from nearby Taiwan, but why credit so many real actual individual people when you can lay all the credit at the feet of a folksy legend about a superhuman character named Xi Jinping?
The beneficent light of his wisdom has turned the wheels of history in China’s favor.
Read all about it! Xi Jinping’s magic touch single-handedly transformed Xiamen into a clean, green and prosperous high-quality city built on socialism with Chinese characteristics, even though the man hasn’t lived there for decades and can’t speak the local dialect, the legend lives on.
