From Russia With...Nerve
- Don Juice
- Mar 22, 2018
- 2 min read
An interesting incident occurred recently in the U.K where a former Russian spy named Sergei Skripal and his daughter have allegedly been poisoned by Russia. Russia denies that they had any involvement with this and claim that the accusations are baseless acussations. The British government is not letting up on the blame however and there has already been a tit-for-tat response involving diplomatic expulsion. Both victims are still in critical condition and an investigation into the matter is ongoing. Some will say this is a false flag attack by the West particularly Britain, in this case, to blame Russia and push anti-Russian propaganda. And that definitely can’t be ruled out considering how hostile NATO is to Russia with the continued border buildups in Eastern Europe and military exercises. However, we must also understand that Russian involvement with poisoning individuals is nothing new. Here is an article from 2016 talking about similar events which states “Political murders, particularly those accomplished with poisons, are nothing new in Russia, going back five centuries. Nor are they particularly subtle. While typically not traceable to any individuals and plausibly denied by government officials, poisonings leave little doubt of the state’s involvement — which may be precisely the point.” And when it comes to poisoning outside of Russia as an example the U.K. mentions that it was “Applied most notoriously in the case of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a Putin opponent who died of polonium-210 poisoning in London in 2006" and that "murders and deaths under mysterious circumstances are now seen as such a menace that Kremlin critics now often flee the country and keep their whereabouts secret.” So while the West does have a desire to keep stoking the anti-Russian flames, let’s also remember that Russia’s opponents, critics have a history of mysteriously dying and getting sick.
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