It is already four days since Alexander Litvinenko died – a slow and horrible death. And I have already started wondering why…
But here it comes, no worries:
Yesterday an aide to President Vladimir Putin reacted strongly to suggestions of Russian involvement. “We don’t know who killed Litvinenko, but one thing is for sure, it was not the Russian state,” he said. “We’ve got nothing to hide.”
The aide implied Litvinenko’s death was part of a conspiracy by enemies of Putin who had sacrificed one of their own to discredit the Russian president. “If you ask the question who has the most to gain from all this, the answer can only be [Boris] Berezovsky, a man who by his own admission is out on a campaign to discredit Putin and the Kremlin,” he said.
I think that we can mark the first successful move in the eternal Okhranka / CheKa / NKVD / KGB / FSB game “Find The Joo”. Hooray!
Cross-posted on SimplyJews
Berezovsky doesn’t have to try to discredit Putin. Putin is doing a commendable job of discrediting himself.
Looks like Vlad the Impoisoner is bringing back the glory days of the KGB, complete with wet affairs. I suppose we may expect to see him bring back more characteristics of the good old days when the Communists ruled Russia so successfully.
The denials of the Russian government have the same believablity as those of Baby Assad the Dorktator over the murders of Rafik Hariri and Pierre Gemayel. If civilized countries had any brains and courage they would cut off all connection with these criminal regimes and impose total blockades on them, at a minimum. Sadly brains and courage are lacking, and the hysterical protests against recent demonstrations of such characteristics were in part intended to prevent any such actions in the future. Thus the world will get worse. Letting the world get worse is called realism, although it could just as easily, and more accurately, be called stupid, short sighted pusillanimity.