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The Russian government has perpetrated a chemical attack on an American ally's homeland:
The type of nerve agent used to poison a former Russian spy and his daughter in the U.K. was developed in a top-secret laboratory in Moscow and was once a closely held secret of the Russian government.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found slumped on a bench in the city of Salisbury on March 4. Experts quickly assessed that Skripal — a former Russian intelligence official accused of spying for the British — had been poisoned with a nerve agent.
On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May named the agent in a speech before Parliament.
"It is now clear that Mr. Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia," she said. "This is part of a group of nerve agents known as Novichok."
Novichok agents are extremely rare.
"As far as I know, I don't know anybody who knows how to make it except these guys in Russia," says Dan Kaszeta, a chemical weapons expert with Strongpoint Security in London. "They've been a deep, dark secret."
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/12/592964624/nerve-agent-found-in-u-k-is-rare-and-definitely-russian
Why isn't the leader of this country, on national television right fucking now expressing support for the United Kingdom and their people and sovereignty? That is where he should fucking be right this moment, talking to the American people, and affirming to us that the United States of America will stand by the UK government, and the UK people, against this insidious Russian aggression.
Trump and his administration's response so far to the UK announcement pretty much amounts to, sorry it happened friend - sucks to be you.
And not one single peep from Trump himself condemning the Russians - added to his still standing refusal to implement congressional approved sanctions against Putin's regime, and you have something that is looking very wrong here folks.
The Gadfly is not by any means a conspiracy theorist, but this Russian coddling shit by this nation's current ruling government is beginning to become a bit too unsettling for The Gadfly's taste, and honestly, The Gadfly is imagining the worst case scenario coming out of this insanity at this point, but is hoping for something slightly less than worst, at best.
And also today - the GOP House Intelligence Committee, headed by that little midnight lurking, bug-eyed gnome Devin Nunes, has announced, suddenly and unilaterally, that they are shutting down the House investigation of Drumpf, and issuing a final report exonerating Drumpf of collusion with Russia to ratfuck the 2016 election.
Just another coinky-dink huh?
Like The Gadfly said - he's not partial to conspiracy stuff, but there is a whole lot of very bizarre, very suspicious and very overt, mutual backscratching going on between Drumpf, a faction of right wing GOP'ers in the House and frankly -- Vladimir Putin.
The bottom of it all needs to be gotten to promptly - sooner rather than later.
----TFG
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