Posted on 03/07/2018 5:52:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
Navalny:
All the below reasoning makes sense only if Russia’s involvement in the attempt at Skripal and his daughter will be proved. But let’s suppose it’s proven.
Then there are two options for the development of events.
1) According to Putin’s scenario.
2) And according to the script, which is unpleasant for Putin.
What would Putin want from the British authorities?
- ban on broadcasting RT
- non-arrival of representatives of the British authorities at the World Cup. The non-arrival of the national team is also okay
- the allocation of additional assistance to Ukraine
- the “alignment of the position with NATO”
and other nonsense that will not affect anything, but will give an opportunity to release three more seasons of the series “Look at how the West infringes and trebs Mother Russia. block, and yet we are taught democracy “
An unpleasant scenario for Putin is that the British will finally wrest from their country a dozen of our officials and oligarchs with their families and money. And here there are three key names: Abramovich, Usmanov, Shuvalov.
Plus they will really start using their wonderful The Bribery Act against our crooks (see the case of Deripaska and Prikhodko on a yacht).
The most interesting is that such a scenario will also be received in Russia with a cheer. Opposition with glee. Loyalists - with concealed gloating.
However, unfortunately, all our experience of monitoring such situations shows that Britain will follow the first path and do exactly what was planned by those who prepared this murder.
They will ban RT, and we will prohibit them in response to the BBC. Well, all that stuff.
The huge and corrupt lobby of British bankers and lawyers will not disturb the Russian oligarchs and officials who settled in London.
The nerve agent that poisoned the Russian spy Sergei Skripal was planted in his daughter’s suitcase before she left Moscow, intelligence agencies now believe.
Senior sources have told the Telegraph they are convinced the Novichok nerve agent was hidden in the luggage of Yulia Skripal, the double agent’s 33-year-old daughter.
They are working on the theory that the toxin was impregnated in an item of clothing or cosmetics or else in a gift that was opened in his house in Salisbury, meaning Miss Skripal was deliberately targeted to get at her father.
Moscow will respond to a new set of U.S. sanctions by expanding its “black list” of Americans, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday, according to RIA news agency.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-sanctions/russia-to-expand-black-list-of-americans-in-response-to-sanctions-ria-idUSKCN1GS0IY
LOL!
A Russian citizen described as a gun developer for Kalashnikov Concern, that country’s famed maker of assault rifles and a company under U.S. sanctions, is expected to plead guilty to a federal charge of attempting to violate U.S. export controls, according to court filings.
Evgeny Viktorovich Spiridonov, 39, of Moscow, was arrested Jan. 27 at Los Angeles International Airport after leaving a major gun show in Las Vegas and attempting to board a flight for the Russian capital, according to court records.
He had ordered a $2,400 restricted advanced tactical rifle scope from a Pennsylvania gun dealer, according to the filings. U.S. investigators learned of the sale from the dealer and interceded, staging a controlled delivery of the scope to Spiridonov’s Las Vegas hotel, the filings said.
Spiridonov is accused of failing to file or submitting false or misleading export information. Exporting the restricted rifle scope without a U.S. export license is punishable by up to five years in prison.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/russian-described-as-gun-developer-for-kalashnikov-charged-in-las-vegas-sting/2018/03/15/705da78e-27ea-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html
What are the latest predictions from https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/W-ICEWS.html ?
Asking for a friend.
According to this report:
SVR related persons contacted former colleagues in the West and told them that SVR was against the recent poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Britain. If true it indicates not only that the military intelligence, (GRU), acted alone in the operation, but that the infighting between Russia’s intelligence services is in full swing.
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