Russian chemical attack on UK

^ On top of your attributes, you also have the best signature on PA. 

I voted for nothing, as Russians are not behind this staged fake attack of anti-Putin Russophobia. Boycotting the world cup will only punish the English team, so it's a silly self-destructive response.

Easy Money wrote: Blaqua wrote: I voted for nothing, as Russians are not behind this staged fake attack of anti-Putin Russophobia. Boycotting the world cup will only punish the English team, so it's a silly self-destructive response. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/britain-responsible-spy-poisoning-attack-salisbury-russia-foreign-minister-claim-a8266521.html Good ole KGB Putin, all he wants is world peace.

According to the Nobel Committee

Easy Money wrote: Those three are probably more likely the top 3 in world turmoil.

Edited by Blaqua - April 04 2018 at 10:34

Easy Money wrote: You don't know who committed that poisoning, you have absolutely no idea anymore than I do, but to say that the KGB or Russian government is absolutely not one of many possible suspects is beyond naive.

It is indeed, John. However, the interview given to the British press by the director of Porton Down yesterday was naive in the extreme. What worries me even more is the fact that it was authorised by the Prime Minister's office. To have more than one arm of government stating definitively that Russia was absolutely responsible (the likeliest scenario) contradicted by the chief chemist of the country stating he can't say definitively where the damned stuff originated from is a tad embarrassing, to say the least.

It has gone down lie a bucket of cold puke in some Western governments who supported us. Indeed, The Times reported today that May is struggling to hold the anti-Russian coalition together.

To repeat, all the evidence is that Putin was responsible, or a state agency, which amounts to the same thing. However, as seems to be constantly the case in government these days, we really do not seem to help ourselves.

The question one must ask oneself is why would anyone other than the Russians use such a poison to kill an ex-Russian spy? The answer is simply that no other assumption makes any sense. It also not coincidental how many anti-Putin politicians, activists, exiled spies, etc. have ended up murdered. And that specific sort of poison, the danger in handling it, and the expertise required in planting it? It's like Putin put up a billboard festooned with neon lights in Piccadilly.

The Dark Elf wrote: The question one must ask oneself is why would anyone other than the Russians use such a poison to kill an ex-Russian spy? The answer is simply that no other assumption makes any sense.

Maybe it was used to make the Russians look suspicious as a distraction?

"Makes you wonder why another method of attack wasn't used. As you say, handling the substane is precarious and dangerous, and a successful kill was also not guaranteed. Surely if the Kremlin wanted this man dead, he'd be dead. "

Edited by Blaqua - April 05 2018 at 05:40

Blaqua wrote: "Makes you wonder why another method of attack wasn't used. As you say, handling the substane is precarious and dangerous, and a successful kill was also not guaranteed. Surely if the Kremlin wanted this man dead, he'd be dead. " Spot-on! if the Russians were the perpetrators or involved in this attack in any way, they wouldn't have complicated the operation by using a very lethal, precarious, tell-tale because Russian-made, chemical weapon, which could jeopardize the lives of others including that of his Russian daughter.  Read here https://www.thejournal.ie/novichok-cant-prove-was-made-in-russia-3938011-Apr2018/ “not verified the precise source” of the substance." But so many Russian diplomats have already been expelled. Quoting the washingtonpost.com, Affecting at least 151 people, it is the largest expulsion of Russian diplomats since the Cold War  — and virtually unprecedented in scale and scope.  (!!)   UK government = Factory of Truth & Trust

To be fair, to them it was probably the straw that broke the camels back; Russia has been getting away with obnoxious behavior for a longer time now.