The Russian ambassador will remind Boris of the help that his government gave him during Brexit,
Marina Hyde of the The Guardian has a excellent (and amusing) analysis of this.
Yes, indeedy. Russia is so aggravated it just has to double down.
After all, why would Putin put a Russian nerve agent on a door in England belonging to a Putin adversary? It could have been anyone — a malicious fake news newsboy, a car repo gone bad, a fat guy in his bed…
Who lies more, Putin or Trump? Tough choice.
To someone like me who is steeped in both the documented history and fiction of the Cold War it’s stunning that Putin would re-invent crimes that used to be the province of SMERSH and the old KGB. SMERSH officially ended half a century ago, but that hasn’t stopped Putin from getting revenge on former spies. SMERSH exists de facto if not de jure.
Perhaps they can hold the meeting in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Who better than Assange and Farage to mediate?
And Roger Stone can pre-tweet it’s Boris Johnson’s time in a barrel.
The difference is only that Putin knows it when he lies. Spanky is terminally confused about reality.
Wasn’t that a big hit for Jim Croce?
The Russians are so transparently stupid. Had their nerve agent gotten out without their knowledge or approval, would they not have immediately tried to tighten security around their stocks of it, and track how it got out? Just keep saying “No we didn’t” does not comport with their actual guilty behavior.
mymy
That’s a good point. We’ll never know for sure, but I suspect that Putin gives the order to whack someone and those carrying out the hit are left to their own devices. So instead of just killing some poor bastard in some way that’s not outright obvious, you do it a way that was like taking out a billboard in the middle of London.