#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

🎙US Department of State's Lies – an expensive but inept venture (Izvestia, April 26, 2023)

On April 24, the US Department of State congratulated me on International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace in a personal way – by publishing a detailed paper that was entirely devoted to me!

💲The US foreign policy body has not mastered this new genre for free. The Maria Zakharova profile is the fruits of the Global Engagement Centre which is in the depths of the State Department. Thanks to The New York Times, we know that $120 million were allocated for this, including my profile.

☝️The US State Department succeeded in discovering America and informing the world about an interesting fact in my biography – believe it or not, I propagandize Russian foreign policy. Don’t you agree that this conclusion is worth every penny of $120 million?

The rest is not so great. They mostly published blatant lies.

👎Below is the list of State Department's fakes.

#OsamaBinLaden
This is untrue. Any fake item is deliberate. Speaking on Rossiya Channel 1 on October 30, 2017, I made a mistake by mentioning the photos of Bin Laden and members of the Taliban, but I immediately wrote in my Facebook account about this.

#ThreateningJournalists
This is about this viral video where I talked to Finnish journalist Erkka Mikkonen who was interested in the fortunes of homosexuals. I offered him a chance to visit Grozny and even asked Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya to reply to the reporter’s questions.

Moreover, Mikkonen was getting ready to go when his editorial office, or to be more precise, Elina Ravantti, Head of World News and Current Affairs at Yle, prohibited him from going.

#AngloSaxonsYearnForWar
Have the past 18 months refuted at least some of that? Let’s see, the threat of sanctions – yes, provocation – yes, disinformation – yes. We saw all of that in the special military operation zone ranging from sanctions to Western weapons supplies and, of course, an unprecedented media campaign against our country.

#Bucha
Where are the verified lists of the people who died in Bucha? We have been asking this question for months, but what we get instead of an answer is silence or aggressive mumbling.

#ForcibleDeportations
Russia is not moving anyone out by force. Millions of refugees from Donbass are fleeing from Ukrainian and the West’s bombs and missiles. They are not fleeing to Poland, but to a safe and secure place, Russia.

#NuclearBlackmail
In fact, Vladimir Zelensky is the one who is calling on NATO to fire a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Russia.

#DirtyBomb
London has confirmed its plan to supply Ukrainian forces with depleted uranium munitions which are a highly toxic weapon that contaminates soil, air and water, and triggers cancer and death among victims of missile and bomb attacks and the attackers as well.

#FoodCrisis
Russia is honestly holding to its end of the grain deal at a time when grain and food are not reaching the developing countries (UN statistics), and humanitarian corridors are being used to attack Russian infrastructure.

🤷‍♀️Truth be told, they could have come up with something more serious for $120 million, or, maybe just wire the money to Zelensky for drugs.

Unfortunately, this shows once again that the motto of 🇺🇸 foreign policy is hoaxes, fakes and insults. On top of that, it’s a mediocre job even though done for an inordinate amount of money.

P.S. The State Department website has a section dedicated to former secretaries of state, including Colin Powell, who brought a vial filled with some dry powder to the UN Security Council, allegedly anthrax, urging the international community to go to war with Iraq.

❓: When will the State Department call a spade a spade and publish a post on its website to the effect that Powell misinformed the international community by dumping the largest fake story in recent history onto the UN platform? Or, does the State Department value me more?