News - Middle East: Former General David Petraeus stepped forward this week to respond to what the West is calling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “threat” to use nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, CNN and other Western outlets are sounding the same alarm along these lines, massaging the narrative that Russians intend to use nukes in Ukraine.

But US-based political commentator and analyst Daniel Patrick Welch cautions against taking them at their word.

“The methane spewing up from the sabotaged gas pipelines on the Baltic Sea floor are the most accurate analog for the gaseous nonsense spewing from the bloviating gasbags of the collective West,” Welch said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday. “Evermore shrill with every new development, they are left to fart out their noxious lies to poison the atmosphere, accumulating like the carbon greenhouse effect of their vaunted echo chamber. Even if we can’t smell them, their lies are literally killing us, first slowly, and finally with a great, cataclysmic implosion.”

Welch refuted the claim, which he labels simply bizarre, that Russia is responsible for the sabotage of Nordstream 1 & 2 gas pipelines that took place on September 27.

“We are now told that the Russians, having spent billions of dollars to build these massive projects, against enormous technical odds and political opposition, are themselves the ones blame for having blown them up,” said the American writer. “In this Bizarro World of Western lies, it is nearly impossible to gain a foothold against the ridiculous narrative our overlords have constructed for the consumption of the peons. Every step, every stone crumbles under the weight of truth. Black is white, night is day, down is up. The creators of this madness laugh at the Pavlovian success of the system control they use to control their populations.”

“It is hard to tell when Western sources aren’t lying,” he said. “The gasbags’ lies are everywhere, minus the whiff of the added chemical that makes it identifiable to guard against accidental explosions. Brushing past the “news” stand, I get a peek at one particularly hilarious headline. Reuters, AP, NYT, UPI, AFP… who cares? Everyone is already on board. ‘Ukraine reclaims more territory as Russia’s hopes fade…’”

The commentator responded with disbelief: “WTF? is the only response that comes to mind, even though a texting shorthand isn’t exactly standard interview language. In the real world, the news is that four regions of the battered eastern Ukraine, having been pounded by their ‘own’ government artillery for over 8 years, have finally rejoined Russia, whose annexation was cemented yesterday by the state Duma,” he explained.

“Earth-shattering, mind-bending, geopolitical tectonic-plate-shifting news being digested by the rest of the world. In the West? Ukraine reclaims territory. There can be no engagement with such insanity, and I fear there is little hope for any diplomatic or non-military way out.”