UK Gov Report Tells Everyone What They Already Knew About Putin

The KGB had two types of ways of killing people.

1. Obvious

2. Covert

In the latter, victims died of what appeared to be heart attacks, committed suicide or just vanished. But in the former, they were killed in ways that made it obvious who was responsible while maintaining plausible deniability.

The KGB had ways of killing people subtly two generations ago. It still does. When it wants to kill someone quietly, the victim is found having committed suicide. Consider the murder of Victor Kravchenko. The point of the Litvinenko assassination and any number of other unnecessarily vicious killings was to make it clear who was responsible.

The UK report on the assassination is a joke because the whole point of the killing was to make the point to Russians living in the UK that they were not safe. The point was made. The report only confirms that the UK is unwilling and unable to do anything about an enemy carrying out killings on its soil in ways that seriously endanger its own people.

Putin didn't just kill a political enemy. This is what he did to the UK.

Metropolitan Police detectives found traces of polonium-210 on the plane, travelled on by suspects Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun in 2006.... The two Russians who allegedly poisoned Alexander Litvinenko left a massive trail of radiation in “multiple locations” across London...

This wasn't just messy. It was practically a terror attack of the kind no one has even carried out before. And, after all this time, the UK has come up with a response.

Cameron: 'We have to go on having some sort of relationship with Russia'

David Cameron has accused Russia of carrying out a “state-sponsored” murder of Alexander Litvinenko, writes Tom Whitehead.

“We have put sanctions in place, led the arguments in Europe for sanctions against Russia because of their illegal action in the Ukraine.

“But do we at some level have to go on having some sort of relationship with them because we need a solution to the Syria crisis – yes we do but we do it with clear eyes and a very cold heart.”

Asked if further sanctions could be taken, he said: “We will look very carefully at the report and all the detail.

“But as I say. It confirms what we always believed to be the case, and it confirms that the action we took then and the last Labour government took then, was indeed the right action.”

Translation, Putin has made his point.

This isn't a new problem. The various incarnations of the KGB, past and present, have been carrying out brutal killings in the US and Europe for almost a century. They've never faced any consequences for it. The first Soviet embassies in Europe were effectively terrorist hubs filled with bombs and weapons where terror attacks, including one against the Polish parliament, were openly plotted.

Communist killers murdered refugees, dissidents and fellow Communist heretics in terrifying numbers and with terrifying methods. The US and Canada generally did nothing about it. France made the most aggressive threats, enough that the overt murders stopped, but essentially Putin is part of an organization that has been getting away with this forever. So it's just not going to stop.

It certainly won't stop under Obama. Not when even the Chinese secret police openly operate and intimidate opponents right in the United States.