P. GREANVILLE—The last page of the Skripal affair is not written yet, of course. Now we see that the brains in the Anglo-American intel establishment have decided to put their investment to further use with the same intent: blacken the name of the Russians, which is all part of the same, longstanding game, to apply soft power to dent and if possible neutralise the ability of Russia to project its own diplomatic, economic and military capabilities across the globe. The fact the vampires in the Western intel services are drumming up more ways to blacken Russia’s name precisely on the eve of a Syrian planned offensive to finally cleanse their country of Western-supported jihadists—now concentrated in Idlib province—is indicative of the high probability of some very ugly, much larger intervention by Washington and its accomplices to defeat or block such campaign.