Without even trying to intervene directly in this interminable exchange, would just observe that this swop&swop of copy-pasted reports from publications or communiqués of the two opposing sides, along with assertions that this one is trustworthy but the other is only a bit of the old Mandy R-D, constitutes a never-ending mulberry-bush round which it might be politic to stop going ad ∞, & move on to some other motif before Grim·☠☠·Reaper·☠☠·Esq supervenes...

Just saying

~M~