Russia plotted to overthrow Montenegro's government by assassinating Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic

[highplainsdem]

Source: Telegraph

Russia plotted to assassinate the prime minister of a European nation and overthrow its government last year, according to senior Whitehall sources.

An election-day coup plot to attack Montenegro’s parliament and kill the pro-Western leader was directed by Russian intelligence officers with the support and blessing of Moscow, to sabotage the country’s plan to join Nato.

The plot was foiled only hours before it was due to be carried out, but would have caused heavy bloodshed and plunged the tiny country into turmoil on the eve of becoming Nato’s 29th member.

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The planned Montenegro coup scheduled for October 16 last year was one of the most blatant recent examples of an increasingly aggressive campaign of interference in Western affairs, Whitehall sources told The Telegraph.

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Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/18/russias-deadly-plot-overthrow-montenegros-government-assassinating/

[JTFrog]

1. Trump must have made him a better offer. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Trump telegraphed Putin: Don't do it 2 weeks before the election. Might tilt it to the sitting Pres.

[tenorly]

3. They were after the wrong Milo

[Initech]

4. Russia is the biggest threat to the world right now.

[starshine00]

5. absolutely

Putin has to be stopped and it is INSANE, INSANE, INSANE that we, the US are in bed with him right now. It is like waking up from a nightmare only to find reality worse. We should be opposing this .monster. Gods help us all.

[Initech]

6. I'd much rather have a president "in bed with Goldman Sachs"..

Than a president in bed with Putin. Never thought I would say that!

[starshine00]

7. he's clearly out for world domination

he's kind of a low key type Trump, they seem to share a lot in common. It does lend some credence to the people who believe Trump's insanity act is staged...'crazy like a fox' in that sort of way. The more crazy he acts, the more really scary dealings with Russia and Russian mafia are coming to light.

[Crowman2009]

8. More like Putin's government.

I'm not going to throw the whole population under the bus when there is a large percentage of them hate this asshole.

[woundedkarma]

9. I've been saying this for a year or two now...

Nobody in the media, nobody even on DU seemed to notice or agree.

Everyone seems to be too distracted by the campaign, by Isis or Isil or whatever they are now. By Syria etc. Brexit...

I'm pretty sure 90% of all the bullshit over the last few years come back to Putin.

Maybe I'm just a conspiracy theorist ;p