JOHN CHUCKMAN
EXPANSION OF COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN MOON OF ALABAMA
“Putin Confirms: Sergei Skripal Wanted to Go Back To Russia
“Filmmaker Oliver Stone recently interviewed the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/07/putin-confirms-that-sergei-skripal-wanted-to-go-back-to-russia.html#more
Terribly interesting item on the Skripal Affair. Thanks.
And it is difficult to know just what to make of it.
I have never for a moment believed Theresa May's storyline, and for a host of reasons, a number of which you'll find here:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/john-chuckman-comment-the-skripal-affair-dramatically-returns-with-supposed-surveillance-photos-of-the-assassins-just-one-very-serious-problem-with-a-pair-of-the-photos-they-appear-to-be-frauds/
One of her aims may well just have been to make an excuse to smash-up Russia's intelligence networks in the West, sending all the experienced agents packing, but of course the same countries lost theirs in Russia in the tit-for-tat.
For some unknown reason, that may still have appeared a worthwhile trade-off. And it came with the added benefit of more noxious anti-Russian publicity. It came also just before a missile attack on Syria over yet one more phony chemical-weapons claim against President Assad. Assad, years ago, gave up all his chemical weapons under international supervision, something the United States itself still hasn’t done.
Anyway, the chemicals that have been found to have been used in small quantities in Syria a few times, by some unknown parties trying to incite intensified war, chemicals such as Chlorine gas, are things you could make in your basement at home.
I'm glad to see you mentioned fentanyl as a possibility for what hurt the Skripals. It was suggested by first-responders at the time. They said overdoses were common in the town of Salisbury and that this case sure resembled one.
The use of a nerve agent has always been an absurd claim. Nerve agents kill too fast. The antidotes must be given within minutes. And when you start just by finding two very sick people on a public bench with no evidence of any kind, such as a container, to go by, nerve agent would be one of the last things any doctor would think of.
But if a doctor somehow did happen think of it, which agent would it be and where would he quickly obtain the antidote? Yes, Britain has a highly secret chemical weapons lab, something resembling a set of massive bunkers, not too far away, at Porton Down.
It is almost nine miles from Salisbury, and in the case of nerve agents, just the time needed to drive that far, estimated to be between ten and fourteen minutes on the winding rural road, would condemn a genuine victim to death, let alone all the time required for communication, certain identification of the agent, searching for stored antidote, and other matters.
And if, by some miracle, a doctor had guessed the cause, why wasn’t the area immediately evacuated and shut down? Nerve agent is seriously deadly stuff, like almost nothing else you can name, yet no effort was made to protect the population? Indeed, even without knowing what it was, why was no real effort to protect the population?
The official story has always seemed contrived and not well thought through.
But, then, we see a lot of matters these days that seem contrived and not thought through, owing to the high stakes of American imperial affairs driving so many dark and secretive activities.
Here’s another interesting sidelight from a while back:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/john-chuckman-comment-head-of-opcw-reveals-there-was-no-material-that-can-be-identified-as-russian-involved-in-skripal-affair-notorious-brilliant-pranksters-get-him-on-the-phone-thinking-it-is-the/
And here are some additional previous thoughts and observations:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/john-chuckman-comment-is-salisbury-safe-after-skripal-affair-of-course-u-k-government-behavior-parallels-americas-following-the-kennedy-assassination-a-commenter-raises-the-case-of-dr-kel/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/10/28/john-chuckman-comment-blood-soaked-american-ally-saudi-arabia-actual-death-toll-in-yemen-only-circumstances-where-washington-attacks-tyrants-compare-the-glaring-hypocrisy-of-the-khashoggi-and-s/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/john-chuckman-comment-bellingcats-claims-about-a-gru-colonel-and-the-skripal-affair-remember-what-bellingcat-is-just-a-front-organization-for-british-security-service-mi6-no-substitute-for-ev/
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/john-chuckman-comment-the-missile-attack-on-syria-more-on-the-related-skripal-poisoning-affair-in-britain-and-reflections-on-the-kind-of-world-into-which-we-have-been-thrust-no-rule-of-law-no/
