"The hospital was bombed." The West counterattacks on the information front

One of the leitmotifs of Western propaganda regarding the Russian operation in Syria is the persistently repeated thesis about the indiscriminateness of Russian missile and bomb attacks. Allegedly, they primarily affect civilian objects, civilians and infrastructure.

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And in those cases when military targets are hit, the Russians, firstly, destroy the “moderate opposition”, and secondly, pave the way for Assad’s troops, who, naturally, also act indiscriminately, hitting civilian targets, civilians and infrastructure. All this taken together gives rise to streams of refugees who are pouring into the European Union in droves, enduring terrible torment along the way and creating problems for compassionate Europeans.

Caption for this Reuters photo: Locals flee through the dust at a site damaged by what activists say is a Russian airstrike in the rebel-held Maaret district of al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria, October 24 2015"

However, it is enough to read the comments left on social networks and on the forms of leading Western publications to understand that this rather primitive manipulation is met with emotional rejection by the audience. And in almost every third critical comment one can find a mention of the American attack on the hospital of the international organization Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan city of Kunduz, which a month ago claimed the lives of 22 employees and patients of this institution.

“At least they don’t bomb hospitals like we do,” even American citizens write. We can say that the reputational losses of the United States from this tragic incident put an end to the entire line chosen by the West to discredit the Russian operation in Syria.

Supporters of the “moderate opposition” are rallying in Berlin against the operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria.

And this week, the media began to come across reports that the Doctors Without Borders hospital had become a target not only for American bombs. On Tuesday, a message appeared on the official page of this organization on the social network Twitter that their hospital in Yemen, in the city of Saada, was bombed. It later turned out that there were no casualties as a result of the strike, only one person was injured. In Yemen, targets from the air are hit only by planes of the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia, which is fighting Shiite rebels here. She has a number of hits on civilian targets, the most resonant of which was the shooting of a wedding ceremony, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of people.

There were also cases when aviation mistakenly “worked” against the troops of the coalition itself, mistaking them for the enemy. So the Saudi side’s excuses that no aviation was involved in this area that day at all can be treated with skepticism. Like, we know you – the Saudis. You bomb very unselectively. However, in any case, given everything that is happening in Yemen, this incident received disproportionately large amounts of publicity in the media.

Destruction in Idlib province. According to Reuters, it was the work of Russian pilots.

And today, the head of the Syrian mission of Doctors Without Borders said that in recent weeks in the northern provinces of Syria (Aleppo, Idlib and Hama), at least 12 hospitals have come under fire and a total of at least 35 doctors and their patients have been killed, and another 72 people were also injured. The organization’s statement does not indicate exactly whose planes sent their bombs to civilian targets, but the Reuters news agency, which provides this data, clarifies that airstrikes in these places are carried out by planes of the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces. The message does not provide any specific information about the affected facilities, dates of tragic incidents, or similar details. Thus, knowing all the dates of flights and the goals of Russian aviation, which the Ministry of Defense regularly reports on, it would be possible to refute these accusations, or, on the contrary, to deal with the incidents more deeply.

Thus, it turns out that Doctors Without Borders is being bombed by everyone and everything in all conflict zones: the Americans in Afghanistan, the Saudis in Yemen, the Russians and Syrians in Syria. It turns out that the air raid in Kunduz is not an out-of-the-ordinary war crime requiring an independent international investigation, but just one of the tragic incidents in a series of similar ones. This means that all that remains is to convince others of this, and again talk about the special indiscriminateness of Russian bombs.