3 ms·
How is the motive "not there"? Skripal was seen as a traitor, having acted as a double-agent for British Intelligence. There's a clear pattern of Putin going
by dralley 3y ago
How is the motive "not there"?
Skripal was seen as a traitor, having acted as a double-agent for British Intelligence. There's a clear pattern of Putin going after "traitors" - Alexander Litvinenko had publicly accused Putin of conducting assassinations and organizing false terrorist attacks before fleeing to the UK and famously being assassinated with Polonium there. Maksim Kuzminov was just assassinated in Spain a few months ago for having defected to Ukraine with a helicopter.
As the article states the arms which were destroyed were likely to end up being received by the Free Syrian Army, in opposition to the Assad regime supported by Putin - or alternatively, to Ukraine, against which Russia had just started a conflict.
- thriftwy 3y ago[flagged]
- qup 3y ago> fruit of my spleen Google returns zero results for this phrase (when quoted). Congratulations. I like it.
- xenophonf 3y agoTo vent one's spleen means to express angry feelings, from Hippocrates' theories about the "humors".
- thriftwy 3y agoThat's Strugatsky brothers: > когда носорог глядит на Луну, он напрасно тратит цветы своей селезенки When a Rhino looks up the moon, he just wastes the flowers of his spleen
- int_19h 3y agoThe widespread perception that there's no room for dialogue with Russia would be one of the downsides that you have asked about. If you decide to openly endorse its foreign policy, don't complain that you get treated accordingly, as well.