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"Putin had a personal motive for wanting Litvinenko dead, and that the president would likely have had to approve a high-stakes operation to assassinate the for
by sklivvz1971 11y ago
"Putin had a personal motive for wanting Litvinenko dead, and that the president would likely have had to approve a high-stakes operation to assassinate the former KGB operative on British soil."
In other words, there is no evidence, just "cui prodest".
- tomp 11y agoAmongst others who had personal motives for wanting Litvinenko dead are the US president and UK prime minister, so that they could smear the incident all over Putin. Recently, I found myself not believing anything coming out of the media (Western and rest of the world alike) if it at all supports the prior interests of the owners/regulators. For example, did North Korea really hack Sony, or were they just the most convenient actor to blame?
- pjc50 11y agoOther way round: Litvinenko was killed years ago, and speculation that it was done by Russian intelligence broke out immediately. The formal investigation was held back until now. It's quite likely that it's only being investigated and publicly blamed on Russia because relations have already gone bad.