Posted on 03/16/2018 1:47:04 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
The murder of Litvinenko, the author of "The FSB Blows Up Russia" says, was like the bombings of the apartment houses in 1999: everything pointed in one direction, but it was circumstantial rather than definitive; and thus his death became as it were “part of the psychological war of Russia and the West and its own compatriots.
But the special operation carried out against Skripal “has different goals.”
It is not excluded, that Moscow wanted to test the personality of the British prime minister who had to be forced to pursue the Litvinenko case but now is prepared to be more forceful, something that in this case fits in with the Kremlin’s plans.
That may seem counter-intuitive, he implies, but it makes perfect sense. Russia is going to be caught up in a long struggle with the West that will condemn it to failure just as something similar condemned the Soviet Union. “The economy will stagnate, prices rise, people and money go abroad, and sanctions and counter-sanctions will destroy what’s left of the market.”
“Life in a besieged fortress,” he says, “is filled with enthusiasm when the enemy it shooting at it. But a fortress which everyone has forgotten about … is a sad spectacle.” To ensure that attacks keep coming, the master of that fortress must continue to launch attacks of various kinds in order to get a reaction.
“Without waiting for the results of the voting, Putin already is hurrying to show his plans for the next six years,” Milshteyn says. He wants to orchestrate “a permanent Caribbean crisis” and he thinks that the West will ultimately fold “out of fear of a nuclear war and because for the reason just outlined above, this game doesn’t offer many prospects for Putin’s Russia.”
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Excellent point. Putin was sending a message...but to whom? I suspect it was to the expats who are potential enemies. We can get you wherever you hide.
Maybe a warning to all those holding some power in Russia to keep them too scared to defect and testify? Like the guy who testified about the Russia’s state run doping program and is currently in FBI witness protection program.
Pure conjecture.
Facts not in evidence.
"Nothing is True, Everything is Possible" is the running mantra of Putin's vortex.
Bear in mind that this is on the eve of the Presidential election (not that is not already a done deal.) That is how you get 90%.
I suppose so, but I believe Putin is playing the Democrats like a Stradivarius over this collusion business.
Meanwhile on BBC:
BBC Nuclear Attack Broadcast (Pre-Packaged)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=710s&v=exY6l4j12Ng
Too bad Orson Welles is not alive to see it.
Things about novichok, Clinton, the Skripals and odd coincidences about past associations that make you go “ hmmm”
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/clinton-state-department-discouraged-novichok-discussion.html
The links in this article are very informative
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