Daily Mail: It WAS Russia! Furious PM blames Putin for 'brazen' attack on former spy using 'high grade' nerve agent Novichok on British soil and vows to retaliate
* PM delivered crucial statement to the House of Commons on Russia spy row
* She said it was 'highly likely' the Russian state was involved in 'despicable' act
* Earlier Theresa May chaired meeting of National Security Council to be updated
* Session heard damning evidence nerve agent came from Russian lab, PM said
Theresa May dramatically pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin tonight over the nerve gas attack on a former spy.
The Prime Minister said the facts increasingly suggested Russia was behind the apparent 'hit' on double-agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.
Branding the attack a 'reckless and despicable act', Mrs May said the substance used was a 'military grade' agent Moscow has produced.
Together with Russia's previous actions and tactics, including the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the UK authorities had concluded it was 'highly likely' to be involved in the episode.
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WNU Editor: The Kremlin has responded .... Russian Foreign Ministry slams UK PM’s comments on Skripal poisoning case (TASS)
More News On U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May Accusing Russia To Be 'Highly Likely' Behind The Nerve Gas Attack On A Former Russian Agent
Russian spy: Highly likely Moscow behind attack, says Theresa May -- BBC
British PM: Russia ‘highly likely’ behind ex-spy’s poisoning -- AP
UK's May says 'highly likely' Russia behind nerve attack on spy -- Reuters
Russia highly likely to be behind poisoning of spy, says Theresa May -- The Guardian
Britain Blames Russia for Nerve Agent Attack on Former Spy -- New York Times
British PM Theresa May says Russia highly likely to be behind Skripal poisoning -- ABC News Online
Theresa May: Russia 'highly likely' to be behind poison attack on ex-Russian agent -- DW
Theresa May points finger at Putin's Russia over spy's poisoning -- NBC
Britain gives Moscow two days to explain alleged use of nerve agent from Russia (VIDEO) -- RT
Russian spy: May under pressure to take firm action -- BBC
Poisoning of Russian spy raises troubling questions -- Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
9 comments:
If this was a Putin ordered hit, England has to take some drastic action given the contempt it demonstrates by Putin for the English.
This action, after previous assassinations on English soil, deserves wholesale expulsion of Russians close to Putin, barring entry of Russians on tourist and student visas, closing of consulates and expulsion of as many spies with or without diplomatic cover and joining in on US sanctions on Russia. I don't expect the EU to join the English's outrage, but they never did on previous outrages.
These flagrant abuses have to stop.
I think the British did it and are now trying to blame the Russians. How convenient this is. Kill a Russian citizen that perhaps had a falling out with the Russian government, blame the Russians for it all while engaging in hysterical anti-Russian messaging, and use this as an excuse to ratchet of tensions in a new Cold War that some in the "west" went out of their way to start all for no good reason.
Can we say "false flag?" I knew we could. While I don't want to believe my government, (the United States) would participate in something like this, the people who are leading the anti-Russian charge seem to be capable of just about anything.
We didn't need a new cold war, we can't realistically afford it, and we lack the resources to effectively prosecute it. So what, these carzies don't care.
If the British act by "joining in on US sanctions on Russia" they are going to owe reparations when this is over for sanctions unjustly imposed. We Americans are already going to owe an enormous amount and the longer this goes on the larger the amount is going to be. It would be best for the British to not join in such stupidity.
Of course the EU is not going to join the English "outrage." Russia is a large and powerful country who has been a major power in Europe and Asia for many centuries and probably will be for many more. They simply realize that alienating them is not a good idea especially when there is/was NO GOOD REASON TO DO IT.
Now anonymous, you wish to fight Russia and Russians, GO STRAP IT ON!! Poland and Ukraine are looking for some cannon fodder. Perhaps they will even sing songs about your bravery some day.
While I do not "know" that what I suggest is correct, it does seem to me as the most likely explanation. In any event, before going of half cocked without even thinking through the way Ms. May did more information would be needed.
It makes zero sense that Putin would give the go-ahead for this.
He's got an election coming up.
He doesn't want this potential explosive foreign issue to overshadow him.
This only further damages Russia's world cup ambitions.
The poisoning was messy, haphazard and is not the usual pattern of previous all edged Russian poisonings.
B.Poster thinks it was the British that did this.
I do not. The Americans may have a fondness for false-flag operations, but this is the British we're talking about.
Personally believe this was an enemy of Putin - Someone high up in the Russian intelligence community passed the word down and now we have this situation.
Putin has quite a few enemies just as many as he has 'friends'.
What better way to damage Putin than to cause a major international foreign issue.
The death of this 'former' spy, if warranted, could have come at any time in the future. But are we seriously led to believe that Putin signed off on this, at such an inconvenient time? There is nothing for him to gain here.
Can you share some of the drugs your on? Sound like they are good stuff!
Putin's priority right now is the election. I concur that it makes no sense to do this .... especially now. Something else is at play here .... in Russia or outside of Russia.
No one would cross putin casually
Brit I Tal not dumb
Putin is foscused on The election. He is also focused on Syria despite recent heavy losses. He is also focused on a broad foreign policy to separate NATO countries. With England leaving the EU he might use this hit as a wedge between NATO allies who won’t support England. He’s done a fine job with Turkey for instance.
D.Plowman,
You are correct that it makes zero sense for Putin to do this. On this point we agree. Where I would disagree is the US government might dream of "false flags" but lack the basic intelligence, creativity, and ability to carry them out. As a country with a long and glorious history like Britain I would assume they are capable of a false flag. As such, "this is the British" we are talking about" here very respectfully does not hold any weight.
Whose to say the Americans didn't help the British on this one? After all you say our government has a "fondness" for such things. The reason the Americans are unlikely to be involved is several fold. 1.)America leaks like a sieve. As such, the British would never trust them with any information on such a project. We'd be kept "out of the loop." 2.) US (un)intelligence is comprised of incompetent boobs, political hacks, and an otherwise assortment of incompetents. It's unlikely they could carry this out.
Now with that said many in the "west" seem hel! bent on doing whatever they can to provoke a new cold war. As such, maybe the Americans and the British did this together. We don't "know."
You think that it was an enemy of Putin. You could be correct. As I think I have said elsewhere on this site, any opposition to Putin is going to be even more hardline and less accommodating to the "west" or America than Putin is. As I said at the time, America and the "west" should take extreme care to NOT do ANYTHING that threatens to destabilize or otherwise undermine Putin or the current Russian government as the alternatives are worse. Ms. May was very, very reckless when she stated it was "highly likely" that Russia meaning the Putin government was behind this attack.
Agree with the editor "something else is at play" but what? For reasons stated above, I heavily discount the Americans being involved in this in any fashion. You think it is a Putin enemy. I think it is the British. Actually I kind of hope it is the British.
The reason I say this is because I have assumed the Putin government is very, very stable and the any replacement would be even more hostile to America and the "west" than the Putin government. As such, I never gave much thought to him actually being ousted. If he is ousted, we will have a Russia that posses the means to hurt us very, very badly along with a government more hostile to us than the previous one. This would be a distressing situation indeed.
Pm may stated things in a way that implies mayo will somehow be involved
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