BREAKING: Nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal linked to Russia by Prime Minister

[deminks]

Source: Salisbury Journal

PRIME Minister Theresa May has today confirmed that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal is of Russian origin.

Addressing MPs today, Mrs May said the substance was "clearly a militarly grade nerve agent of the type developed by Russia", before naming it as Novichok.

Russia's ambassador in London has been summoned to the Foreign Office to explain whether the attack was planned by the Russian state.

She said: "Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country or the Russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and it got into the hands of others."

Read more: http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/16081772.BREAKING__Nerve_agent_used_to_poison_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal_linked_to_Russia_by_Prime_Minister/

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Novichok

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent

[NastyRiffraff]

1. I don't even like Theresa May

but she clearly has more guts than our so-called president.

[d_r]

2. its a warning

to witnesses in Mueller investigation

[maxsolomon]

10. no it's not

its a warning to Russians not to cross the Putin Kakistocracy.

[apnu]

19. Bingo. Putin and Russia don't care about the US.

They wanted Trump not to have a puppet, that's impossible given the out-of-control-monster he is, but to have a POTUS who's weak against Russia. Obama, frustrated the hell out of Putin, and kept a lot of Putin's goals in check. Obama wasn't perfect, and sometimes his pressure lead Putin to be very heavy handed (See Ukraine) to achieve his goals, but at least Obama functioned as a check on Putin and Russia's power grabs.

Trump won't do that at all. He is incompetent and easily distracted, he's the perfect 'useful idiot' for Putin.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. So how does GB deal with USA? They know our leader is owned by the murderer who

released this poison, so to speak, in their country.

Great Britain knows that the USA is now a satellite of Russia and that Russia is threatening their country.

So how do they deal with us?

[dchill]

12. I take you point, but how do WE deal with us?

Apparently, there are way more rubles than morals in our so-called government.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. IDK, I do know that most of the rest of the planet now sees us as a problem.

We are a dangerous problem to the world, unfortunately.

And having sixty million voters supporting the traitor in the WH doesnt help.

[Nitram]

18. The US is most definitely not a satellite of Russia. That kind of hyperbole gets tiresome.

[PSPS]

20. Hyperbole, yes, but only in degree.

The fact is that all the branches of the federal government and many state governments, now under the jack boot of the kremlin-financed GOP, are working in earnest to further the goals of the kremlin. I'll give you that we don't have russian tanks in the street or kremlin-directed shooting down of planes in our airspace (at least not yet.)

[Eliot Rosewater]

25. Exactly, you will notice I dont even bother responding to them.

Hyperbole is necessary when people downplay the urgency of the situation, odd how that is what some do, isnt it.

[Nitram]

30. I guess it depends on the person, Eliot. Hyperbole puts me off. Facts engage me.

I feel like I'm being manipulated when people employ hyperbole to persuade me. It is an insult to the intelligence to suggest that no one will notice or understand the importance of something unless it is blown out of proportion. Maybe too much TV and other media have made some of us oblivious to the calm, matter-of-fact expression of truth.

[mwooldri]

24. Money.

London is a financial powerhouse. Lots of Russian money flows through London. Plenty of Russian assets to seize if required.

And as for UK dealing with USA... The 'special relationship' will continue, but America will be ignored in this nerve agent incident. The people at GCHQ and MI6 will speak with their opposite parties at the NSA and CIA as appropriate. Trump is irrelevant.

[bronxiteforever]

4. Cheeto and GOP silent. Again.

[Achilleaze]

17. republican silence in the face of evil is republican evil

[dalton99a]

5. Kinda explains Trump's penchant for eating fast food from random places unannounced

[Raster]

9. Actually, no sarcasm is necessary... as this is probably one of the main reasons...

...tRump* eats mass-produced fast food.

[watoos]

6. This is why Manafort will choose to spend the rest of his life in prison

and not rat out Putin and Trump. Even if pardoned I think Manafort will get convicted by Schneiderman.

[renate]

23. yeah, I think Manafort is probably actively hoping to be sent to prison n/t

[C Moon]

7. Trump will, of course, find a way to praise this.

[Raster]

8. This was deliberately planned by the Russian state with the full approval...

...of KGB thug, Vladimir Putin*. The USA and it's probable strong response to Russian shenanigans are one of the only things that have kept them relatively "in line." Now that their hand-picked puppet sits in the Oval Office, Russia is more than just embolden... they fear no retribution from the US and its allies.

[maxsolomon]

14. did they pay a price for the Polonium Tea incident?

I don't remember - it was 2006

[jodymarie aimee]

11. that brilliant ex Obama ambassador that MSNBC uses alot

just kind of shouted 'My God, this is serious, why isn't everyone talking about this?" Well, because squirrels work....

[Leghorn21]

28. Michael McFaul - no, he cannot believe the all shit going on. Has been a great addition to msnbc -

[Oneironaut]

13. Moron-in-Chief is as usual, completely silent.

I’m really starting to believe that he is being blackmailed, or is a willing asset of Putin. Saying nothing about this gives silent acceptance to Putin ordering terrorist attacked in countries he doesn’t like.

Strongman my arse. Trump is a weak, ineffectual leader who is afraid to keep Putin in check.

[C Moon]

15. Putin is an evil sleazeball

and Trump works for that asshole.

[Achilleaze]

16. And these Evil Doers are republican Dirty Donnies* BFFs...

speaks volumes about republicans...


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[SummerSnow]

21. hmmph....

"But he's a killer," O'Reilly said to Trump.
"There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?" Trump replied.

"He's running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country," Trump told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in December 2015.

He continued, "I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe, so you know.

[orangecrush]

22. K&R

[Leghorn21]

27. KICK

[Scurrilous]

29. K&R