miltiades wrote:Have you got those UK casualty figures yet?
Are they approaching those of Pearl Harbour perhaps?
What a blithering moron!!
It's got nothing to do with the amount of casualties. the fact's are, that a number of people were effected, and about 7 people are critical and in all likelihood Sergei and his daughter plus one cop will die.
That is a direct attack against the United Kingdom with a chemical agent.
It is a violation of International Law.
Western Security agencies can also play that dirty but choose not to. it's a very dangerous precedence now, and a precedence which prevents any cooperation or easing of tensions with Pootin. Instead, tensions increase. isolation of Russia is the order of the day and no one wants anything to do with them.
If Turkey did this in Cyprus resulting in a number of people falling critically ill and possibly be on their death beds, then are we to absolve erdogan because there are only a few casualties?
No of course not. It is a violation of international law and a chemical attack against The Republic of Cyprus. It is an act of war as well.
It's a slippery slope.