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UK Issues Ultimatum to Russia After Attempted Assassination of Former Double Agent
Townhall.com ^ | March 12, 2018 | Chris Reeves

Posted on 03/13/2018 12:29:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Strongly worded letter to follow.


21 posted on 03/13/2018 1:07:18 PM PDT by McGruff (It's time to investigate the investigators)
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To: SaveFerris

Boy, this sure does make Russia look bad and vindicates all the Western Russophobes.

No way Trump is gonna be able to have a substantive meeting with Putin now.

Better start bombing Syria....


22 posted on 03/13/2018 1:07:31 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: wally_bert

Good lord, the Falkland Islands war would be impossible for them today. They can nuke Russia. Their next step down from that... is an aircraft carrier with no planes, and RAF with no bombers, and an Army with more Generals than tanks.

The Japanese navy and Indian navy is far more powerful than the RN.


23 posted on 03/13/2018 1:08:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Kaslin
If it was the Russian government that wanted this guy and his daughter dead, they'd have been found dead not, "clearly in distress"

On the one hand they talk about what an evil, lethal, nerve agent it is and on the other, how the victims are doing in the hospital.

If it were really the agent they say it was all the information I've found said they'd have been stone cold dead within a minute or two of exposure.

Maybe they were just exposed to the left hand of some Muzzie who doesn't believe in toilet paper, an unpleasant experience no doubt, but not usually lethal.

24 posted on 03/13/2018 1:08:48 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: DesertRhino

You 100% correct.


25 posted on 03/13/2018 1:10:41 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: tet68
Wow! If Trump had said this liberal heads would be esploding all across the country.

Trump has said he isn't convinced the Russians did it.

26 posted on 03/13/2018 1:10:52 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: marktwain

“Makes as much sense as Russia deciding to assassinate this guy and his daughter after eight years.”

If they wanted him dead, they had him in prison all that time.


27 posted on 03/13/2018 1:11:48 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Kaslin

“It is now clear that Mr. Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. This is part of a group of nerve agents known as “Novichok.” Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world leading experts at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so, Russia’s record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations, and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations, the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal.”

WOW! that’s a whole lotta weasel-worded speculation!
Definitely not WW3 worthy

People who make try to make cases like this to incite superpowers against each other scare me a whole lot more than Russia!

This whole thing plays a lot more like a spy vs spy bungle or a clandestine mission gone bad

And Putin doesn’t bungle
If he wanted this guy dead, he’d be dead


28 posted on 03/13/2018 1:12:58 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Kaslin

Translate Sergei Skripal into English, and it comes out as “Seth Rich”.


29 posted on 03/13/2018 1:14:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Kaslin
Putin is definitely no choir boy, but how do "we" know that what happened in the UK isn't the work of some 3rd party (North Korea, China, ISIS).

When the old Soviet Union fell, I'm sure many secrets were sold-off to the highest bidder....
30 posted on 03/13/2018 1:15:10 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: mac_truck

Could be. OTOH, we have people who lie for money (Christopher Steele for example).

That being said, I believe Russia is making a huge mistake in supporting Iran and will be involved in Ezekiel 38 (which I believe is different from another war 1000+ years later).

I’m also having a hard time trusting May. She’s been wrong about a whole host of things.

I have no illusions about Russia. I just hope this is not a baseless provocation.

We live in interesting times.


31 posted on 03/13/2018 1:16:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: silverleaf
This whole thing plays a lot more like a spy vs spy bungle or a clandestine mission gone bad

I get the feeling that somebody is going to kick over a garbage can and MASH's Colonel Flagg is going to pop out.

32 posted on 03/13/2018 1:16:35 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: Rashputin

Yes; this is way to convenient and leads simply and directly to the Russians. The involvement of the Steele dossier and the US deep state is also possible Now the propagandists of all stripes will fog up the field and we will likely not find out the truth, as usual.


33 posted on 03/13/2018 1:16:40 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin

Putin says it’s a Jewish conspiracy to blame Russia.


34 posted on 03/13/2018 1:17:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites.

Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
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Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america


35 posted on 03/13/2018 1:19:34 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nuke deals. See my FR page)
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To: DesertRhino

If they wanted him dead, they had him in prison all that time.


I need more details to understand that sentence.

Who had who in prison? The guy and his daughter in the hospital? The Russians? The UK government? The U.S. government?


36 posted on 03/13/2018 1:20:17 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: DesertRhino

Follow the Fake Dossier.


37 posted on 03/13/2018 1:20:39 PM PDT by McGruff (It's time to investigate the investigators)
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To: silverleaf

““It is now clear that Mr. Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia.”

And that is the word of Teresa May, and the British intel establishment that tried to damage Trump, spied on Michael Flynn, stop Brexit, and intensify a new cold war.

Totally believable //s

I read they were both found slumped over on a bench. That sounds like commonly available fentanyl. Nerve gas would have them doing the funky chicken, not dozing off. Also, fentanyl explains first responders being contaminated. It’s happened to a lot of cops here in the US.


38 posted on 03/13/2018 1:21:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: TomServo

Excellent point


39 posted on 03/13/2018 1:21:05 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: mac_truck; McGruff

Funny, how you Putin butt kissing slime balls always show up on these threads. In this case mere seconds apart.


40 posted on 03/13/2018 1:24:53 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nuke deals. See my FR page)
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