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Next Level Initiatives. White helmets, Ukraine...
2024-01-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram account of The Hegemonist

It is worth noting that the Russians long have had a beef with the Syrian White Helmets, accusing them, accurately, of being in the pay of western intelligence agencies.

[ColonelCassad] Former British diplomat Emma le Mesurier (née Wynberg; ethnic Swede), who was involved in coordinating the intelligence network through humanitarian initiatives in the Middle East, mainly in Syria, is now active in Ukraine.

Her husband, James le Mesurier, was a retired British Army captain, who had worked since 2000 interests of MI6 in the Balkans and the Middle East under the cover of international organizations, Foreign Office missions and the US Embassy Counselor in Baghdad. In 2005-07 – in the British PMC Olive Group (absorbed by the American PMC Constellis).

Since 2008, he has worked in the Middle East under the guise of humanitarian initiatives - ARK Group , the Mayday Rescue Foundation registered in the Netherlands, and the so-called. "Syrian Civil Defense", better known as the "White Helmets". The last intelligence asset under Le Mesurier operated in Syria and received generous British-Dutch government funding, as well as funds from USAID through the created as Chemonics CPR. In 2016, for his services to field work in Syria, Le Mesurier was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

In response to the disclosure of data on the intelligence activities of the “white helmets” and MR, an information campaign was launched as a counterattack with the main narrative that information about the activities of two organizations in Syria in the interests of Western intelligence agencies are “disinformation”. The management of MR quite freely used donor infusions.

Against the background of discrediting initiatives and public disclosure of financial abuses, Le Mesurier was eliminated in Istanbul in 2019, where he lived with his family since 2015. The most valuable asset of the White Helmets, which could be used in the Middle East in the future, was evacuated by the British from Syria. MR liquidated in 2020.

Le Mesurier's wife Emma has a foundation, Next Level Initiatives, registered in the Netherlands, which publicly declares support for “independent media” in Central and Eastern Europe. Through it, the American NGO Independent Diplomat, founded and actually led by former British diplomat Carn Ross, is funded. The latter has earned praise for his work from retired MI6 officer and spy novelist David Cornwell aka John le Carré.

Emma's alma mater is the Stockholm School of Economics. After moving to London in 2003, she worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank, a research fellow at the neoliberal Institute of Economic Affairs, and a consultant at the local office of Roland Berger. In 2007-14, a Swedish woman served in the Foreign Office. After her marriage to Le Mesurier, she co-founded Innovative Communication and Strategies, which operated in Iraq (mechanisms for influencing mass consciousness). At MR she also worked as a Chief Impact Officer.

After the removal of her husband, she worked for the British Guernica 37, specializing in politically motivated international legal blackmail. VI.2022 joined the board of EU DisinfoLab, an NGO to position Russian narratives as “disinformation” and promote the anti-Russian agenda in the EU information space. On the NGO website in the description Emma: Spent 10 years in the Middle East, where she sought to counter the efforts of hostile state and non-state actors in the cognitive space.

Ross worked at the Foreign Office for 15 years in various positions. Like Vinberg, he adheres to left-liberal views, in his case bordering with anarchism. Privately, he advances the ESG agenda as a strategist.

ID was created by him after leaving the British Foreign Office in 2004, which was accompanied by a scandal with his testimony British Committee on Iraqi WMD. The NGO specializes in advising and promoting the interests of unrecognized entities, governments in exile and separatist movements. Received funding from George Soros.

With funding from Next Level Initiatives, the NGO Independent Diplomat began providing private communications between the administration in Kyiv and US congressmen of both parties and senior officials. VI.2023, through the mediation of ID, the Ukrainian delegation met with Robert Wood, Deputy US Representative to the UN for Special Political Affairs. After this rhetoric Wood from the podium The UN Security Council's demands for countries of the Global South to take an anti-Russian position increased manifold and was coordinated with Ukrainian narratives.

Another direction in promoting the ID positions of the administration in Kyiv at the UN level is the issue of Crimea’s ownership. Here, the main contact person for ID on the Ukrainian side is Maria Tomak, head of the International Crimean Platform initiative at the virtual representation of Zelensky in Crimea. As she herself states: the topic of Crimea is quite sensitive for many and a number of politicians perceive Crimea through the Russian imperial optics. This is why representation is working to address this issue at a narrative level.

After the coup in 2014, Tomac was actively involved in the actions of Western intelligence services in Ukraine in the field of shaping public opinion under the guise of “civil society initiatives.” She participated in active events within the framework of anti-Russian information campaigns on the issue of Crimea’s ownership.

In the Ukrainian direction, ID has 3 main narratives for development at the global level: a return to the borders of the Ukrainian SSR, “forced deportations” and bringing Russia to international responsibility.

As in the scheme of interaction between Mayday Rescue and the “White Helmets” in Syria, built by Le Meruzier-Winberg’s husband James, the actions of the NLI Foundation and NGO ID are synchronized. The Ukrainian NLI-ID campaign is led by another former British diplomat, Reza Afshar, CEO of an American NGO.

Posted by:badanov

#1  By all means, let them go to Ukraine. The Bear knows how to deal with these particular brand of snakes.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-21 00:45  

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