Monday, 19 March 2018

JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE SKRIPAL TRAGEDY AND THE FOLLY OF GOVERNMENTS. THE END OF.....!






Since governments will always tend to deny or mitigate any action or inaction which places them in a bad light, and to take credit for those which confer credit on them.

What is clear from the atrocious crime which has been carried out against several dozens British citizens.  Some or all of them unsuspectingly, is that their does not appear to be any logic behind it. 

There is no obvious reasons for the Russians to have wanted to kill Sergei and his daughter, over 7 years after him being freed in a spy swap. 

Now, if the British investigators have found evidence of foul play surrounding the death of Sergei's wife and son, then, that is something which is yet to be declared. 



If it does transpire that the attack on Sergei was part of a vendetta by the Russian State.  

Then, for the Russian government to have given the order for the attack to be carried out, at what is a most inauspicious phase in British/Russian relations.  

Would, it seems, an act of gross leadership incompetence on President Putin's part. 

It would be an act of utter dereliction of leadership, resulting in a tragic crime having been perpetrated, for no apparent good reason.

It would be an act of seer madness, on the part of a leader who had not shown signs of madness before.



The fact that the British government has concluded that 'it is highly likely' that the attack has been carried out by the Russian State, does not make it a fact that it is responsible for the attack. 

The assertion that the Russian State has been found guilty by the British government of a similar act in the past, also is not evidence that the Russian State is responsible for this attack. 


Anymore that the tendency to blame the Syrian government for alleged chemical attacks, because they have used such chemical in the past, is proof of commission of the crime.

Yes, it is certainly possible that the Russian State would be capable of carrying out this attack. 

Just as it is possible that the British, the French and the American states has the capability to do so.

At the sametime, without the attributed guilt of the Russian government having been proven. 



It is questionable whether the punishment the British government and the West is imposing on the Russian Federation, and the repercussions, will not also result an 'any victory' for them, being a pyrrhic one as well.

After all, what is the end game or intended destination? Is it to bring about the collapse of the Russian Federation, which might be one and the same thing as ridding it of President Putin's and his elites rule? 

And replace it with a regime which is more amenable to serving the interests of the EU, Nato and the self-righteous 'guardians of Western Civilization'?

The principles of justice require that the alleged offence is proven, that the punishment is proportionate and of a specific duration.  

And that a part of it should be to promote the deterring of the guilty and others from repeating the offence, or similar offence.






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