Quote Originally Posted by poop
You said the UK gov't poisoned it's own people to make everyone mad at Putin iirc. Maybe there was something more to it, but you know why that makes no sense? Because people already hated Putin.
Well, it goes a little deeper than "hating Putin", it's presenting him as a threat to national security, so that the British public don't dare ask the question "do we really need to spend untold billions on nukes?". Let's just say it's easier to transport radioactive substances a few miles than it is across a continent.

Nothing that has happened since has changed my view on that event, and I acknowledged even then that Putin does go after his enemies outside of Russia. It's just that using radioactive poison in the territory of a nuclear armed NATO country is a little over-the-top, seeing as they could probably just put a bullet in his head with much less kickback. That whole incident was played out for the public. The motives I can only guess at, but there's no fucking way they were telling the truth about that.