COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“CIA & MI6 to
Relocate Skripals to America, Give Them New Identities: Report
“They can't be allowed
to tell the real story. In all likelihood they are being offered obscene sums
of money to accept silence and relocation”
Well, if the report is accurate, this would just be the
icing on the cake, wouldn't it?
A totally fabricated event, many of whose details have
already come unraveled in public, is to be preserved from complete public
discovery by shipping the "victims" off to America, pockets bulging
with money and gifts.
Of course, the story of the Skripal Affair, so obviously
faked, has the potential to bring down the British government.
And it would only be appropriate if the government did fall,
with the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, and the Defense Minister all
having lied in public and made completely unsupported accusations of attempted
murder.
This story of a possible offer of American "witness
protection" for the Skripals is very plausible, and it will be interesting
to see where it goes.
I recall the sad case of the Cuban boy, Elian, trapped in a
bureaucratic and political nightmare in the United States during the Clinton
administration. His father from Cuba came to get him and take him home. The
United States made immense efforts to bribe the father to remain in the United
States, hoping for a diplomatic “victory” over Cuba, but he refused and took
his boy home.
I don't know about the father in the Skipal Affair, Sergei,
who may be quite content with such an arrangement for various reasons.
But his daughter, Yulia, may be quite a different case,
having, by all accounts, a fairly complete life back in Russia with a job,
friends, relatives, and a boyfriend.
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Response to a comment,
“This is to keep the UK from poisoning them again”:
While it is certainly possible, I doubt the UK poisoned
them.
A Fentanyl overdose was suspected by the EMR on the scene,
in Salisbury. It is a common-enough event these days, there and in other
Western cities.
Another very plausible possibility is shellfish poisoning at
the pizza restaurant where they ate.
UK security just took opportunistic advantage in either
case.
A key fact is the time interval of the couple’s movements.
It completely precludes nerve agent poisoning.
So, too, does the death of their pets. All would have been
stricken by nerve agent and their bodies would prove it.
But the pets were cremated by UK authorities, having died of
lack of water after police stupidly sealed off the house. No evidence then
exists of poisoning.
The pattern in this kind of dishonest stage play very much
resembles the pattern of claims of Syria's using chemical weapons, something
which appears to have been faked several times in an effort to provide the
United States with an excuse to bomb Assad.
Perhaps, the whole Skripal affair was in preparation of
public opinion for the next effort in Syria, which we have now very much had.
AFTERNOTE:
At this writing, Yulia has been discharged from the hospital,
but no one appears able to see or interview her.
