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Trump wrote off Novichok attack of defector as 'spy games'

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The Guardian | Trump wrote off Novichok attack of defector as 'spy games' – report

The director of the CIA reportedly used photos of dead ducks to urge Donald Trump to take on a tougher stance with Russia

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4/16/19
Donald Trump was reluctant to expel suspected Russian spies after the novichok chemical weapons attack in Salisbury, viewing the poisoning of a defector as “part of legitimate spy games”, according to a new report. According to the New York Times, Trump reacted skeptically to a British request in March 2018 for a strong punitive response to the use of the nerve agent against the former spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. A local resident, Dawn Sturgess, was killed three months later when she came in contact with the chemical. It marked the first chemical weapon attack on European soil since the first world war. Trump is reported to have written off the attack as business as usual among spies – “distasteful but within the bounds of espionage”.

The incident is cited as an example of the persuasive skills of the then deputy CIA director (now director), Gina Haspel. She is said to have presented the expulsion of 60 accredited Russian diplomats – the course eventually taken – as the “strong option”. She also showed the president pictures of young children who had been hospitalized as a result of the Salisbury attack, as well as photographs of ducks that had been killed because of the carelessness in handling the deadly nerve agent on the part of the two Russian intelligence operatives alleged to have carried out the attack.
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One can only wonder if Trump would have considered Russian GRU assassinations in the United States as “distasteful but within the bounds of espionage”.

Related: Gina Haspel Relies on Spy Skills to Connect With Trump. He Doesn’t Always Listen. | The New York Times
 
This is supposed to go to the Russian forum.
 
Chagos said:
It's the "Russia/Ukraine discussion forum" and I don't see Ukraine mentioned here.
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Its all about Russia, and a new forum was set up to deal with that sort of spam.
 
Chagos said:
It's the "Russia/Ukraine discussion forum" and I don't see Ukraine mentioned here.
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Nor do I.

The article clearly refers to Britain and the Novichok attack in Salisbury. And to Trump. This thread could rightfully be located in any of three or four forums at a minimum.

I threw darts. This forum won :mrgreen:
 
PoS said:
Its all about Russia, and a new forum was set up to deal with that sort of spam.
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Looks like you need to read the corresponding sticky again.
 
From the article:


She also showed the president pictures of young children who had been hospitalised as a result of the Salisbury attack, as well as photographs of ducks that had been killed because of the carelessness in handling the deadly nerve agent


Question - there have never been any reports of young children hospitalised as part of that incident. What is being referred to? US government tests of Novichuk on young children perhaps?
 
Westphalian said:
From the article:


She also showed the president pictures of young children who had been hospitalised as a result of the Salisbury attack, as well as photographs of ducks that had been killed because of the carelessness in handling the deadly nerve agent


Question - there have never been any reports of young children hospitalised as part of that incident. What is being referred to? US government tests of Novichuk on young children perhaps?
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Your GRU agents were sloppy Ivan.
 
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