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Moscow blames BREXIT for spy row in conspiracy theory

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Alexander Yakovenko said today that Russia would exert maximum pressure on London in a standoff over the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
And, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, he said Britain was behaving aggressively towards his country.
He claimed it was cranking up the tension in order to distract the British public from the difficulties it was having managing the country’s 2019 exit from the EU.

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Well he aint wrong... timing is too good and the patriotism charge is too strong. Not saying that the Russians were not behind the attack, but there is a lot of stuff that simply dont make sense in this case. For one, why use a cold war nerve agent that only Russia made, to attack someone.. it would be like killing someone and standing over the body with the bloody knife.. makes not sense.

Then there is the timing.. the May government is failing in Brexit big time, and this is a good distraction.
 
Well he aint wrong... timing is too good and the patriotism charge is too strong. Not saying that the Russians were not behind the attack, but there is a lot of stuff that simply dont make sense in this case. For one, why use a cold war nerve agent that only Russia made, to attack someone.. it would be like killing someone and standing over the body with the bloody knife.. makes not sense.

Then there is the timing.. the May government is failing in Brexit big time, and this is a good distraction.

It makes great sense if you want to send a message, which Putin did. Cross him at your peril. Shelter his enemies and your citizens will also be in danger. Putin figured he could be brazen and get away with it, which he pretty much will.
 
Well he aint wrong... timing is too good and the patriotism charge is too strong. Not saying that the Russians were not behind the attack, but there is a lot of stuff that simply dont make sense in this case. For one, why use a cold war nerve agent that only Russia made, to attack someone.. it would be like killing someone and standing over the body with the bloody knife.. makes not sense.

Then there is the timing.. the May government is failing in Brexit big time, and this is a good distraction.

You haven't got a clue how Putin works. He 'wants' the world to know......
 
Well he aint wrong... timing is too good and the patriotism charge is too strong. Not saying that the Russians were not behind the attack, but there is a lot of stuff that simply dont make sense in this case. For one, why use a cold war nerve agent that only Russia made, to attack someone.. it would be like killing someone and standing over the body with the bloody knife.. makes not sense.

Then there is the timing.. the May government is failing in Brexit big time, and this is a good distraction.

I have no doubt that a message was sent by Russia, a message about long memory and emphatic consequences. If you think the British response is too strong, okay, but the hand holding that 'bloody knife' was definitely Russian.
 
It makes great sense if you want to send a message, which Putin did. Cross him at your peril. Shelter his enemies and your citizens will also be in danger. Putin figured he could be brazen and get away with it, which he pretty much will.

No it would be stupid. The message he would be sending is.. I am stupid.

And it is hardly the first time he supposedly has done this, so what the hell is the point of sending another "message"?
 
You haven't got a clue how Putin works. He 'wants' the world to know......

He is far more clinical and logical than most dictators out there.

And the world knows about him... so again what would be the point of trying to kill this guy with this overkill nerve agent? It makes no sense.

If he wanted to send a message, then he would have someone kill him and skin him.. and hang him up publicly... THAT would be a message.

The fact that the Brits so far refuse to hand over the agent to Russian or even independent study, and the fact that the French refuse to say it was the Russians... and most likely the Germans as well.. Hell even Putins puppet in Washington has refused to say it was the Russians. Why? There is no evidence! We only have the word of a British government that is in serious political trouble domestically and internationally.
 
Putin knew May wouldn't exact too high a retribution and he was right.

There's too much dirty Russian-government/oligarch/mafia money stashed in Britain for May to truly respond forcefully.
 
Putin knew May wouldn't exact too high a retribution and he was right.

There's too much dirty Russian-government/oligarch/mafia money stashed in Britain for May to truly respond forcefully.

Sure, the Brits have way too many major problems on their plate already, their appetite for picking another fight should be low. If they are right this is about Russians killing Russians, yes it is unpleasant that they are doing this on British soil but at the end of the day why should the Brits care......
 
You haven't got a clue how Putin works. He 'wants' the world to know......

Of course he does, and he made the British look like fools for being unable to protect people living there.
 
Of course he does, and he made the British look like fools for being unable to protect people living there.

I have heard you say this in another thread. Such utter nonsense but I will indulge you, how do you expect MI5 etc to protect over 65 million people at all times?
 
He is far more clinical and logical than most dictators out there.

And the world knows about him... so again what would be the point of trying to kill this guy with this overkill nerve agent? It makes no sense.

If he wanted to send a message, then he would have someone kill him and skin him.. and hang him up publicly... THAT would be a message.

The fact that the Brits so far refuse to hand over the agent to Russian or even independent study, and the fact that the French refuse to say it was the Russians... and most likely the Germans as well.. Hell even Putins puppet in Washington has refused to say it was the Russians. Why? There is no evidence! We only have the word of a British government that is in serious political trouble domestically and internationally.

If you keep making excuses and concessions for dictators eventually it will hurt you.
 
If you keep making excuses and concessions for dictators eventually it will hurt you.

Not making any excuses.. I want evidence before I convict anyone.. dictator or not. Show me the evidence that it was Putin and Russia that was behind this nerve agent attack. Why wont the Brits release samples for Russian or independent analysis. And is it not odd.. that the guy who made the stuff, lives in the UK now? Hmmmmm

And for the record.. I am far more inclined to believe that the other Russian who was strangled was done by Putin. I fully suspect Putin has been knocking off his own people and enemies for years, and I find it strange how many Russians with links to Trump have been dying over the last year or so.. But I have no evidence of anything, but a lot of suspicion and some logic. If Trump is indeed a Putin stooge, then it would be logical to knock off people who could prove that.. however these people were not killed by nerve gas made during the cold war.. talk about overkill and pinning the crime on yourself.. makes not sense to do it that way, and no matter how you slice or dice Putin.. he aint that stupid or careless.
 
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