Unlike a certain political campaigner of the right, who has crossed my line too many times to warrant further correspondance, I am not on NSC to seek to secure a Tory hegemony. That said, I agree with the annoying Tory apparatchik in that the recent attempted murders are very certainly the work of official Russia. The evidence is circumstantial but:
1. The victims are traitors in the eyes of the Russian leadership.
2. The Russian leadership has stated such.
3. The Russian leadership has declared publicly that Russia will obtain retribution.
4. The victims were killed by a Russian neurotoxin (I am a pharmacologist, btw, so know a bit about such things).
5. The Russians have not hotly denied their involvement. They have mockingy done so.
6. Nobody else has claimed responsibility.
7. Nobody else is suspected. Not actually, not by anyone with a credible justification.
Consequently, Jezza's circumspection has been rightly mocked. It is as transparently pathetic and deluded as Thatcher's fawning over Pinochet, and extreme reluctance to send a ship to the Falklands till it was almost too late. Bad judgement, nostalgia for the 'old times' and knee jerk tribal stupidity are not the property of just one doctrine.
Given that I regard Putin as particularly dangerous to us (and others) while Pinochet was largely a symbolic pin up for blind-minded right wingers (torturing and killing mostly only his own countrymen), I am especially disdainful of comrade corbyn under the present circumstances. He could easily have condemned Putin while crossing his fingers, veinights, FFS. What does he gain by not going 'all in' on the red? Given that he is leader of the opposition, it won't be him having to deal with the declaration of culpability. The more I think about it, the more disdainful I feel.
1. The victims are traitors in the eyes of the Russian leadership.
2. The Russian leadership has stated such.
3. The Russian leadership has declared publicly that Russia will obtain retribution.
4. The victims were killed by a Russian neurotoxin (I am a pharmacologist, btw, so know a bit about such things).
5. The Russians have not hotly denied their involvement. They have mockingy done so.
6. Nobody else has claimed responsibility.
7. Nobody else is suspected. Not actually, not by anyone with a credible justification.
Consequently, Jezza's circumspection has been rightly mocked. It is as transparently pathetic and deluded as Thatcher's fawning over Pinochet, and extreme reluctance to send a ship to the Falklands till it was almost too late. Bad judgement, nostalgia for the 'old times' and knee jerk tribal stupidity are not the property of just one doctrine.
Given that I regard Putin as particularly dangerous to us (and others) while Pinochet was largely a symbolic pin up for blind-minded right wingers (torturing and killing mostly only his own countrymen), I am especially disdainful of comrade corbyn under the present circumstances. He could easily have condemned Putin while crossing his fingers, veinights, FFS. What does he gain by not going 'all in' on the red? Given that he is leader of the opposition, it won't be him having to deal with the declaration of culpability. The more I think about it, the more disdainful I feel.
