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"A military intervention under far-fetched and fabricated pretexts in Syria, where there are Russian soldiers at the request of the legitimate Syrian government, is absolutely unacceptable and could have the most dire consequences," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement obtained by Agence France-Presse.
Previous American leaders preferred to fabricate pretexts -- the sinking of the Maine, the ostensible attacks on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin -- rather than admit they were going in unprovoked.
Others predict a Pakistani scenario (the emergence of an Islamist-inclined officer like Zia-ul-Haq, acceptable to both the army and the Islamists) or, just as bad, a repeat of Egypt's recent past when the military fabricated a pretext to suspend all politics in 1954.
Six weeks after the protest movement in Syria began in 2011, Mr. Chossudovsky uncritically repeated the Assad government's claim that "many of the demonstrators were not demonstrators but terrorists involved in premeditated acts of killing and arson," in a post accusing the United States of "fabricating a pretext " for military intervention.
They also started wider European hostilities by sending ultimata to Russia and France, and by declaring war when those ultimata were rejected - indeed fabricating a pretext that French aircraft had bombed Nuremberg.
No more than George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld would insist upon were they to face charges, say, of fabricating pretexts for war.Ronald MarksTorontoSIR – Faith in the American legal system has eroded to such an extent that not even the president can trust that justice will be served should terrorists stand trial in American courts.
But the opposition says the event was fabricated to create a pretext to crack down on dissidents in the city, the site of a violent uprising seven years ago and still a source of unrest.
"As for their weak pretexts about fabricated crimes committed by Sudan, we can discuss it with them after they bring those who committed the atrocities and massacres in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq to the court implicated for the same crimes, but ones that are not fabricated, but rather proven with documents and incidents," Mr. Assad added.
"Since joining the Russian network's American channel, Ms. Martin has returned again and again to the argument that the American government could have fabricated the terrorist attacks as a pretext for war," he writes.
While styles of policing vary from country to country, Chapman is just one victim of a pattern of repressive, politicised policing at mass protests, as fabricated evidence, abuse of anti-terrorism laws, flimsy pretexts for arrest and the use of provocateurs have become the norm.
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The phrase "fabricated pretext" functions as a noun phrase, with "fabricated" acting as an adjective modifying "pretext". It is typically used to describe a false or invented reason used to conceal the true motive or purpose behind an action. Ludwig AI confirms that is commonly used.
Expression frequency: Uncommon
