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And who has paid any cost after Snowden's revelations?
by protomolecule 2y ago
And who has paid any cost after Snowden's revelations?
- wiseowise 2y agoHow many people died to plutonium tea planted by CIA in Russia?
- protomolecule 2y agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22006446 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22006446 A member of the House of Lords, Lord Lea, has written to the London Review of Books saying that shortly before she died, fellow peer and former MI6 officer Daphne Park told him Britain had been involved in the death of Patrice Lumumba, the elected leader of the Congo, in 1961. When he asked her whether MI6 might have had something to do with it, he recalls her saying: "We did. I organised it."
- wiseowise 2y ago> in Russia And in modern times. Russia would be screaming out of their lungs and threatening nuclear war if CIA or MI6 murdered someone in Moscow with plutonium tea.
- protomolecule 2y agoYou are not making any sense
- wiseowise 2y agoSo you don’t know that Russians assassinated one of their own on UK soil? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvi...
- protomolecule 2y agoYour comments have no relation to the topic of the degree of accountability of American special services.
- Wytwwww 2y agoSo are you trying to equate Britain and Russia because of something that the MI6 did over 60 years ago? Seems a bit absurd...
- Wytwwww 2y agoIn 1961. You can also use some examples from the Boer war or even the Opium wars... Nobody is equating Putin with Stalin either (he's more of a miserable version of Mussolini if we're being fair...)
- Wytwwww 2y agoIt did have a significant effect on on the reputation and trust in the US government. Possibly significantly affected the careers of some individuals. Any equivalent would be more or less entirely downplayed or ignored by Russian media. Did the same happen in the US/etc.?