Evidence mounts that the Russian government may be using the UK and US as a 'killing ground'.....

[Soph0571]

.....to eliminate its enemies

Britain offers wealthy Russians many attractions: the great city of London, the bucolic countryside, exclusive schools, and a global financial hub. But for some former spies and other foes of President Vladimir Putin, it has become lethal.

The latest victims near death's door are 66-year-old Sergei Skripal — a former colonel in Russia's military intelligence service, then a turncoat helping British agents who was convicted in Russia before being freed in a spy swap— and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia. Both were found comatose on a public bench Sunday in the medieval English city of Salisbury.

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Some lawmakers and a former top law enforcement official say the nerve agent attack fits a pattern of suspicious deaths in the U.K. and in the United States. They are calling for a high-level police investigation into whether Britain has become a killing ground for the state-sanctioned elimination of enemies of the Russian government.

The deaths that have caused qualms include a man who was impaled through the chest by the spikes of an iron fence; a former Putin aide found dead in a Washington hotel room with blunt force injuries; and an ex-spy poisoned by radioactive tea.

[link:http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-uses-us-uk-to-target-kill-former-spies-putin-enemies-2018-3|

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans DO NOTHING to defend America or Americans

That speaks volumes.

[gordianot]

2. Luxary real estate is a magnet for Russian Oligarchs.

Amazing how providers of luxary real estate complain about MS-13 violence but ignore the Russian crime lords they import into the West. Russia is a terrorist State.

[FakeNoose]

5. Why aren't they spending their money to fix up their own country?

Seems like a real disconnect. They crave the property and wealth of the West, and yet they could easily make Russia as good as the US or western Europe. But they don't, they have to meddle into our affairs and try to steal whatever they can.

[FarCenter]

3. Will the UK do anything extreme, like take the Chealsea Football Club away from Roman Abramovich?

The London Financial Center depends on money laundering by Russian oligarchs.

[Hortensis]

4. The top two nations for money laundering are US and UK.

As the planet's wealth quadrupled over the past 30 years, trillions into to the hands of kleptocrats, they needed to be able to move it to safe places.

What's developed is not all immediately un-doable. Money is power, and it's become embedded over decades in big finance and other big business, and it takes united government to fight it. Nevertheless, support for ending this is rising. Many nations are belatedly recognizing the explosion of corruption and the billionaire kleptocrats, enemies both foreign and domestic, behind it as literally existential threats.

Fortunately, Putin and Russia are helping by sounding big alerts. Attacking the U.S. elections has activated us along with other nations and is going to turn out to be a big turning point and a very bad mistake for Russia. And Russia's mocking us by poisoning people on our streets is a spit in the face any citizen can recognize and understand.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Silence on this attack from Trump the traitor.