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2018-03-14 Britain
Spy poisoning: why Putin may have engineered gruesome calling card
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-14 00:30|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 You spawned a CBRN Event in the UK.
Many others were affected. This is an act of WAR, Putin. You thug.

I AM tired of your shit. Curse you and Russia.
Posted by newc 2018-03-14 01:18||   2018-03-14 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Spy poisoning: why Putin may have engineered gruesome calling card

Because he became an idiot - I see no other reason I find convincing.

On the other hand, I just wonder: would Ukrainians, or Baltics, or anybody else wishing Russia to look bad (like certain people in, ahem) have Soviet nerve agents from 50 years ago?

p.s. What really worries me about the whole story is Muzzies getting ideas.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-14 01:59||   2018-03-14 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Spy poisoning: why Putin may have engineered gruesome calling card

Most tyrants have their own brand of Jim and Susan McDougal, Arkansas real estate scandal. Fraudulent gains, stolen money, people in need of becoming dead, that sort of thing.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-14 05:50||   2018-03-14 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Because he could, he did. And the West will show once again how impotent they are. The same West that welcomes the Islamic threat into their own living rooms.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-14 08:26||   2018-03-14 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 I dunno. Somehow the pieces don't seem to fit together quite so tidy, not the least of which is the way Teresa May has jumped right into it. Makes me feel like someone is trying to sell me something.

I do like the last para in the article:
Anyone thinking of cooperating with Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating collusion, will think twice. Well, sure.
Because RUSSIANS!
Posted by SteveS 2018-03-14 11:34||   2018-03-14 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd say Ukraine myself.

This just doesn't fit with the way Putin plays.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-03-14 11:44||   2018-03-14 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd say a strong runup to the elections.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-14 11:55||   2018-03-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Putin has been known to play pretty rough.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-03-14 12:02||   2018-03-14 12:02|| Front Page Top

#9 pretty rough and "dumb as shit" are two different things.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-14 12:19||   2018-03-14 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Was the Polonium Thing smart or dumb?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-03-14 20:55||   2018-03-14 20:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Was the Polonium Thing smart or dumb?

Compare it to Droning, 2-3 specific casualties or familial collateral damage.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-14 23:30||   2018-03-14 23:30|| Front Page Top

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