Current Affairs Critically ill man is former Russian spy

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tsubaki said:
Crimea was actually an admission of weakness by Putin. By taking it (and the Donbass) they ruled out ever getting control back over the Ukraine as a whole by taking most of its Russian-supporting population away; the end result will probably be another NATO and EU state directly on his border within a decade.

That just leaves Belarus as a buffer state for them, which will make for interesting times if Lukashenko gets into difficulties.
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Appreciate that view, as subjective as it is.

The point being the tolerable response towards Crimea.
 
tsubaki said:
this morning: Boris and No.10 point to Tillerson's support
this afternoon: Tillerson fired
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Trump and he must have disagreed on something then.....we don’t know what though. Timing would suggest the comment about Russia being the issue, but even Trump is beginning to admit that it looks like Russia did it.....perhaps he just wants a stronger Sec of State....
 
peteblue said:
Trump and he must have disagreed on something then.....we don’t know what though. Timing would suggest the comment about Russia being the issue, but even Trump is beginning to admit that it looks like Russia did it.....perhaps he just wants a stronger Sec of State....
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Where?
 
tsubaki said:
Crimea was actually an admission of weakness by Putin. By taking it (and the Donbass) they ruled out ever getting control back over the Ukraine as a whole by taking most of its Russian-supporting population away; the end result will probably be another NATO and EU state directly on his border within a decade.

That just leaves Belarus as a buffer state for them, which will make for interesting times if Lukashenko gets into difficulties.
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Once the EU got involved with Ukraine, Russia was always going to take back the Crimea (and I have to agree with them btw) knowing full well that Ukraine’s guarantors (USA & U.K.) would not get involved........
 
peteblue said:
He was just on the BBC saying it looked like Russia and he’ll be speaking to May later......
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What he actually said was:

Theresa May is going to be speaking to me today. It sounds to me like they believe it was Russia and I would certainly take that finding as fact ...

As soon as we get the facts straight and we are going to be speaking with the British today, we’re speaking with Theresa May today, and as soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be.

But I have not spoken to her, I’ll speak to her sometime today.
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which means that:

i) he hasn't spoken to her about this yet
ii) the Russian involvement is something we believe, not that he does
 
“A Russian exile has reportedly been found dead at his home in London just over a week after a nerve attack on a former double agent.

Nikolai Glushkov was discovered by his family and friends late on Monday night, The Guardian reported.

He was a businessman in Russia after the fall of Communism and was an associate of Boris Berezovsky, who fled Moscow after becoming an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin's policies.

Mr Berezovsky was himself found dead on a bathroom floor at his home in southern England in 2013 with a scarf around his neck.”

Smokescreen I reckon.....
 
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