UK military research boss says unable to say yet whether nerve agent was made in Russia - Sky

[citybiker]

I doubt you know what you're talking about. Convince me otherwise I will just not respond [emoji6]

Which part? That post was actually facetious focused to be fair.

I concur with your earlier input reference 'Yet'.

We do occasionally agree [emoji57]


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[Khun Han]

Government has now deleted tweet which claimed Porton Down had Identified nerve agent as Russian made:

 

https://news.sky.com/story/foreign-office-deletes-tweet-claiming-salisbury-nerve-agent-made-in-russia-11316445

 

 

[ChidlomDweller]

9 hours ago, Grouse said:

They will get there....

And sure as day follows night, if the evidence points to Russia as I expect, they will flatly deny it.  This is a country that denied having soldiers in Ukraine.  Gaslighting is what they do.  

 

Russia has by far the most compelling reasons for murdering him:

• As a warning to other wannabe defectors.
• In case Skripal had other beans to spill, kill him before that.  I would assume he'd have handed over most of his knowledge by now, but maybe not (to keep himself valuable).
• Putin has almost 20 years in absolute power and other than bringing law and order back, overlooks a mainly resource-extraction economy, a Caucasian Saudi Arabia.  When was the last time you saw a Russian product on the shelves?  Their GDP is about the same as Australia's with 6 times the population.  My point is he does what autocrats always do to detract attention from an internal mess: find an enemy outside.  
• Just annoying machismo and posturing by Putin because he's stung by the criticism and sanctions from the West, and the harsh bailout terms on banks in Cyprus.  Same sort of reason why Russia has been  making incursions into EU countries territorial waters and airspace.  Russian reaction is then overt denial and covert "What you gonna do about it?"  I see this as just another such incursion to toy with the needed foreign enemy.

[evadgib]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-boris-johnson-responds-to-defeat-of-russias-proposals-at-opcw

[Baerboxer]

On 4/4/2018 at 1:32 PM, Odysseus123 said:

Well,of course..

 

One day these people will iinvade Tasmania again.

 

With a Navy that could not sink a canoe..

 

An Army that approximates to a battalion-less the Scots and the Irish..

 

And an Air Force which argues that the Sopwith "pup" is not equal to the "camel"

 

Nothing for it but to shave their heads and get another tattoo...

 

The ugliest hominids in all of creation.

 

Aw diddums! 

 

Now don't let mummy and daddy catch you on the computer again.