Novichok In Salisbury: Secret Agents & Nerve Agents In Britain

[Trevp666]

Don't forget The East needs its bogeyman too. Do we not hear about Western spies killing people in Russia because it doesn't happen, or because it's covered up?

Come on old chap - don't you know our British spies are much too good at their game to get caught...what what!

 

[GNC]

Come on old chap - don't you know our British spies are much too good at their game to get caught...what what!

Or much too inept to know what they're doing (remember Cambridge!).

 

[Coastaljames]

Western spies killing people in Russia

Of course it happens! They do ours and we do theirs.

 

[AgProv]

The Guardian article I linked to above, summarised it thus:

"Now, there are two plausible explanations for how the poisoning story went down, and neither paints a particularly optimistic picture. If it’s indeed Vladimir Putin’s deep hatred of turncoats that prompted him to authorise the Skripal hit, as the New York Times alleges, then he critically lacks any strategic foresight and has let personal animus take precedence over Russia’s immediate and long-term interests. If he truly didn’t anticipate all the sanctions, diplomatic expulsions and a newly galvanised global opposition to Russia — or he just didn’t care — then engaging with him in any sensible way might be simply impossible. We already know that the man gets high on his own fake news supply and is an ardent believer in some pretty kooky conspiracy theories.

If Putin didn’t authorise the operation, this makes the matters even worse, both for Russia and for the world. Because that would mean that Putin doesn’t control his own security apparatus, whose members go rogue on ever more reckless vengeance missions at home and abroad. "

The 2nd option is beginning to look increasingly likely.

Sounds even bleaker today.

 

[One Justice]

I just don't believe anything anymore. It's just easier that way.

I'm on that wagon to.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Possible Russian nerve agent attack in Paris?

"French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the possible poisoning of an exiled Russian journalist who staged a high-profile protest against the war in Ukraine. Marina Ovsyannikova, who held up a placard reading “Stop the war” on Russian television last year, became unwell after opening the door to her apartment in Paris and finding a powdered substance, AFP reported."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...lance-what-we-know-on-day-597-of-the-invasion