Gee. Per Rightwing Watch, Rick Wiles over at TruNews says it was Hillary who was responsible, once again, for the bodies piling up. These guys make me physically nauseous.
Don’t worry – Trump will look Putin in the eyes and assure us that Putin is telling the truth. Must be those pesky “Ukrainians, Tartars, or Jews” again, huh, Donnie and Vlad?
Holy smokes!
See Wikipedia Novichok (my attempt to link didn’t work)
“No military-grade nerve agent! No military-grade nerve agent! You’re the military-grade nerve agent!”
Something like: “He says he didn’t do it, he strongly believes he didn’t do it, and I believe him.”
When it first emerged that a nerve agent had been used, i thought the only way Russian involvement could be definitively proven (as opposed to strongly suspected, but unprovable) was:
- they managed to catch the perpetrator, and get a confession. Always seemed unlikely since I’m sure the person responsible was on a plane before a nerve agent had been proven
- they used a Novichok agent unique to the Russian military. I didn’t think Russia could be brazen enough to do that.
This pretty much settles it. This was Russia sending a rude message
Maybe it was Russia. Or China. Or a 400-pound guy sitting in his basement.
I wish that our government worked this well.
By doing a hit like this with a nerve agent of all things, Putin purposely is saying, “Yea, I did it. But what are you going to do about it? It’s not like the Americans are going to help you out on this one.”
So I think this makes the 15th Russian involved in some way with the Steele Dossier and Trump to get a message from Putin.
Like Katy Tur said, don’t hold your breath waiting for Trump to say anything supporting the UK or calling out Russia for this.
100 people injured? How about deporting 100 Russian billionaires from London, along with freezing accounts of some Putin bagmen.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump parrots the Russians, saying “Being a spy is dangerous. Bad things can happen.”
I am wondering whether the british have boxed Putin in on this. If he admits the hit, they’re at expulsion-of-diplomatic personnel level, possibly across europe. If he denies it, there’s almost certainly an international process for investigating “losses” of nerve agent from ostensibly secure facilities. This may turn out to be more annoyance than it was worth to him.
This is an example of the catastrophic national security implications of having a full-blown traitor in the White House. In normal times, NATO would act in unison against this outrageous attack on one of its key members. But with Trump in power, nothing can be done, and in fact Putin was no doubt emboldened by this very problem to order this attack. May of course cannot pressurize Trump because, with Brexit, the UK is very much at Trump’s mercy on matters of trade. Putin could do the very same thing in this country and nothing would happen. In fact, he already did–see the attacks on our elections in 2016 and the ones ongoing.
It’s always puzzled me why Trump’s hostility to NATO, which began in March 2016, has not been the biggest issue in the Trump-Russia scandal. You would have thought that our political culture would not be so debased as to overlook an undermining of our existential alliances because it is too boring a subject to generate clicks. But that is what has happened. It’s mindbogglingly depressing.
“unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom,”
This should put NATO on a war status immediately.