Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and his health is improving rapidly, more than a month after he was poisoned with a nerve agent in England, the hospital treating him said on Friday.
Novichok, the much-vaunted Russian nerve agent alleged used in the Salisbury attacks, has been presented to the public over the last month as the ultimate killer. Officials predicted brain damage to those exposed to the agent, treating scores of people on even the flimsiest pretext. The New York Times went so far as to call it “The Nerve Agent Too Deadly to Use.”
Yulia Skirpal, the daughter of the purported target, has been improving greatly and is expected to be discharged from hospital soon. Now medical officials at the hospital say that her father Sergei is also “recovering rapidly,” and is no longer in critical condition himself.
Details on Sergei Skirpal’s exact condition are still speculative, but officials are now presenting lasting effects of the incident as only a possibility, not a foregone conclusion. Given that Britain called an emergency UN Security Council meeting, complaining about a chemical weapons attack on their soil by the Russians, it’s incredible to think that not a single person died, and the worst-off of them is clearly on the mend.
This again threatens to blow a huge hole in the British narrative of what happened in Salisbury. A reckless chemical weapons attack using a highly-advanced, military-grade nerve agent, exposing hundreds, simply doesn’t seem credible anymore given the aftermath.
This is just the latest in a string of problems, starting with British scientists being unable to confirm where the substance even came from, despite the Foreign Office insisting it must’ve been Russia.
Russia looking to kill people, backlash be damned, with advanced poisons, was a compelling narrative that captured the imaginations of a lot of media outlets, which reported the British claims unquestioningly.In the end, it just doesn’t fit the facts at all, and it is preposterous for Britain to try to maintain the story any longer.
more than a month after he was *allegedly* poisoned with a *alleged* nerve agent
For all we know, his residence may have had a gas leak, or his neighbor may have been vaping something freaky.
Or, as his other daughter suggested, it could simply have been food poisoning from bad fish.
I am very suspicious of the initial accusation because if Russia was behind this, the two would definitely be dead. Something very not right with England’s narrative because if this was a military nerve agent like they said it was it’s incredible that not a single person died, and the worst-off of them is clearly on the mend. This is just a Psy-op like the Russia collusion story in the U.S.
Not only that, which is true, but as the Russian ambassador to the UN said, why do it after 8 years, just before the elections and the World Cup, with an obvious “Russian” CW (which did not even work!!)
Perhaps the queen can craft an apology.
The stupidest show on earth just does not know how to end. Audience is walking out.
If the house was a suspect, how come they spent a day out with no conseqyences
But as the house wwas sealed off 4 pets died of starvation.
This is the new normal. Wild unverified allegations become truths once they gain traction. It doesn’t matter if the Russians are guilty or innocent. There are still people buying into Iraq having WMDs.
A good false-flag only has to be credible for a few days, enough time to terrorize the citizenry and maybe push us into another f-ing war. After that, it just goes down the memory hole and the MSM moves on with another hysterical over-reaction to some wild unverified allegation.
Well put. We want samples to be analyzed by some neutral labratory. If there is, or can be, such a thing.
HOAX!!!
The UK’s story is looking more and more ridiculous.
Hoax!
Just watch and listen to the 40 minutes of the Russian envoy to the UNSC, with his sensible questions and comments. If you can stomach it, listen to the UK liar replying, and the smarmy Sweden and Polish reps. (It is in Information clearing house, first item)
As with the polonium poisoning, the trademark seems to be here as well the combination of obscure hard to get substances (insane inpractical choice) combined with immense sloppy delivery. The pollonium facts (hard to hide the traces there) implied back then several attempts to get it “right” and even then a slow death seems to have been the aim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
Somehow hard to believe FSB and such professional agencies would stoop to such clumsiness. Easier to believe it’s big money combined with stupid expendable hiring. And a dumb, insanely dumb project this was. Just make a list of dumb, ruthless, extremely wealthy geopolitical groups with anti-Russia, and/or war agenda and the case could be cracked open a whole lot wider!
That is exactly what the Russians want and why they do it. The point is to send a message to their internal and external enemies. It is not about the person killed at all, but rather about the message. If they just want to kill someone, they would shoot him.
It’s certainly a line of reasoning which cannot be dismissed out of hand. Both poisoning cases are both so loud, messy and accident prone that there seem only two prime logical explanations: the Russians want the message out and the resulting international tensions, leaving crumb trails all over the place to lead the West along or another party wants that message out for similar reasons. It seems Western intelligence agencies have concluded quite a while ago that the leadership in Moscow does not desire peace at all but in stead division, the breaking down of the old order before any new relations are possible. In that context piling more and more pressure on an enemy not perceived as that strong or willing would be a believable tactic to achieve certain aims.
Even if the above is not what I personally suspect, I do notice the scenario is often left out when summing up possibilities in terms of motivations or logic.
Interesting analysis….
Actually, not.
The Russians have, in the past, assassinated defectors who managed to get out to the west without having been caught.
What they haven’t done is assassinated spies who they caught and then exchanged for their own spies who had been captured in the west.
Why? Because if exchanged prisoners are killed after the exchange, the west won’t be interested in doing such exchanges.
Skripal was one of the latter. He was arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison in Russia in 2004, and in 2010 traded to the west as part of a deal in which Russia got back ten of their own agents from “Illegals Program.” Assassinating him would be a message to the US: Go ahead and keep the Russian spies you catch, we don’t want them back.
Which does not prove that the Russians weren’t behind this (perhaps an exception would be made if the FSB later realized he had information they didn’t want out), but it’s reasonably strong circumstantial evidence against the presumption that they would be the ones behind it.
Has anybody else seen season 4 of Breaking Bad? I think we have a copyright infringement.
Do they have lily of the valley in the UK?
I am questioning whether the Skripals were ever poisoned or ill. The whole thing smacks of a false flag, and they may have been in on it themselves.