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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
But Russia IS still a super-power and also a huge marketplace... So yeah, we could put sanctions on them, technically... Except that the UK ceasing trade would have an insignificant impact on the Russia economy, would have MORE impact on the UK economy (although to be fair still not very significant) and would basically be kicking the bear for a frankly not very good reason. I mean I know it might seem bad but every country is involved in political assassination, its naive to think otherwise. It would be different if they had assassinated a UK political figure or something but... Basically, this is just internal Russian crap that happened to spill over into a UK city. Obviously the fact that a UK police officer was collateral damage is horrendous, but again, let's not start pretending that all countries aren't guilty of causing significant collateral damage in other nations.
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I tend to agree.I reckon British,US,Russian and god knows how many other countries secret services have been doing this stuff for years.Only when Russia does it they do it not so covertly.They use nerve agents and radioactive materials which they know will be traced back to them.I think they do it this way to send a message.Just like when they send aircraft and ships over to ping our radar.
The problem with their methods is that they ramp up tensions.They force our PM into a situation where she has to react somehow so we as a country don’t appear weak.It also gets our politicians putting huge pressure on the PM to ‘do something’.Our problem is that there’s not much we can do unilaterally.It has to be a Nato response to have any impactful effect.As you say though it’s not wise to poke the bear too much over something like this I don’t think.The PM is in a tricky situation really.