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Originally Posted by Sliver
First of all, the government didn't "allow" Russia to assassinate anybody on their soil.
Second, what would you have them do? Fire up the war machine?
This is statecraft. Spies gonna spy. Some are going to die. Countries can't go to war every time a spy gets killed.
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Nobody needs to go to war. War is stupid. But do you think allowing it to happen is a good thing? And off course they allow it. That article references how it's being swept under the rug and quickly being proclaimed as natural deaths after a piss-poor 'investigation'. Call it what you want, but the Brits know it's happening and they do their best to cover it up so as to avoid a conflict with Russia (whatever that potential conflict may be).
If someone walked into your/my home and off-ed someone who lived there, we'd be cool with it since we don't want to piss them off?
Fact is, Russia goes to a foreign country and kills its political and state opponents in said foreign country. Foreign country covers it up. Maybe the terminology I used is wrong, but Russia seems to be 'allowed' to do it.
Either way, it's F'd up.