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So here's the timeline for the Russian bullshit over the past couple of days:
On 4 March 2018 . . . Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia, who was visiting from Moscow, were found unconscious (in a catatonic state on a public bench near a shopping centre in Salisbury by a passing doctor and nurse. Paramedics took them to Salisbury District Hospital where medical staff determined that the pair had been poisoned with a nerve agent. The police declared a major incident as multiple agencies were involved. Following the incident, health authorities checked 21 members of the emergency services and the public for symptoms; three police officers were hospitalized – two had minor injuries, while one, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who had been sent to Sergei Skripal's house, was in a serious condition. As of 13 March 2018 Skripal and his daughter remain critically ill, and Bailey is seriously ill but stable.
On 6 March 2018 . . . the British government determines under the National Counter Terrorism Policing Network that the Counter Terrorism Command based within the Metropolitan Police would take over the investigation from Wiltshire Police.
On 12 March 2018 - busy day . . . Prime Minister Theresa May issued a statement identifying the nerve agent used in the attack as a Russian-made Novichok agent and demanded an explanation from the Russian government. Shortly after May's statement - Trump's secretary of state Rex Tillerson issues a statement supporting the UK's position that the Russians were definitely behind the nerve agent attack.
On 13 March 2018 - today - another very busy day . . . The Russians respond to the UK and tell them, with a smug Russkie smirk, to pretty much go pound sand with their talk of "punitive" measures against Russia. Donald Trump, without notice or fanfare, fires his secretary of state Rex Tillerson via Twitter.
Sigh . . .
So what is it that The Gadfly feels is missing from that timeline dear readers?
What's missing is the story of how after the leader of our ally, the UK, issues a statement that yes, the British government is confirming their belief that the weaponized nerve agent attack on their soil is of Russian or Russian sponsored origin, the American leader, Donald Trump did not immediately hold a nationally televised press conference to assure the American people and the British people that the United States of America will stand by their long time ally's side to confront this menace to world peace, Vladimir Putin, along with his kleptocrat regime of psychopathic mobsters and debauched oligarchs.
Furthermore . . .
Drumpf seems to have plenty of time to be Tweeting all fucking day. So why can he not take 20-30 minutes out of his "busy" schedule, to stand up in front of the American press and the American people, and talk to us about this very serious situation? By all available evidence, this looks to be a chemical weapons attack, and one which America's ally - the British government, is treating as international terrorism. And this attack appears very much so to have been perpetrated by the Russian government.
That is what is missing from the timeline.
It's called leadership people - and no you dumbass Drumpf supporters - not the kind of leadership you would see portrayed on a scripted, "reality" tv show.
And that authentic, innate, naturally gifted leadership is a quality that Donald Trump does not possess in any measurable quantity.
Oh - and lest The Gadfly forget to mention - as for all of this stuff that's occurred in the past few days -- isn't it amazing how all of this shit seems to be working to the benefit of the best interests of Vladimir Putin? Boy, that ol' Vlad sure is one lucky sonofabitch to be having all of these mushrooming crises just be falling in to his lap like gifts from commie heaven huh?
None of this is normal folks. None of it.
----TFG
**UPDATE: Vlad "The Ripper" may have struck again:
A Russian exile who was close friends with the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in his London home, according to friends.
Nikolai Glushkov, 68, was discovered by his family and friends late on Monday night. The cause of death is not yet clear. One of his friends, the newspaper editor Damian Kudryavtsev, posted the news on his Facebook page.
Without confirming the man’s name, the Metropolitan police said the counter-terrorism command unit was leading the investigation into the death “as a precaution because of associations that the man is believed to have had”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/13/russian-exile-nikolai-glushkov-found-dead-at-his-london-home
The Gadfly wonders if there are any American names on Vlad's hit list?
It's not a matter of "if" it can happen here. It's a matter of "when."
----TFG
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