Here's a theory I've read regarding this case, what does Sup Forums think about it?
Skripal snitched and ratted out many spies when he defected. One or more of said spies wanted to take personal revenge considering he fucked them hard over. The poison, like anything else in the world, can be obtained with enough money and connections. He lived for a long while in the UK after his release from jail, he didn't possess any more info, he's a nobody to Putin, and if Putin would've wanted him killed he'd most likely do it in Russia already where it wouldn't backfire and result in worse relations.
There are many other defectors, like Viktor Suvorov who also defected to the UK, even earlier back in the late 70's, nothing has happened to him or the others.
I don't know what to make of any of it. Where was the cop exposed to the poison? Where were the guy and his daughter exposed to it? Why aren't they all dead? Once those questions are answered then it might be safe to speculate.
False flag to frame the good Russians. Thats been the agenda for decades by western politicians. Slowly Eastward.
Camden Parker
This. MI5 MI6 probably killed gim just to blame russia. They need a scapegoat to reverse brexit and get that muslim resettler money back in.
Tyler Wood
It seems more likely that the (crappy, unsuccessful hit) was bungled by some faction inside the FSB (KGB lite) that hated him for ratting out other spies. Putin wouldn't risk such an incident especially after trading him to the UK in 2010. If they wanted him "dead" then he'd have had an accident when in gulag.
The skripal case is pretty easy to "solve". Ski pal was recruited bt christoper Steele when Steele was Mi6 in Moscow. Skripal was the "Russian sources" in the tawdry fabricated Steele dossier on Trump. That bullshit has unravelled badly, revealing GCHQ and Mi6. Look at the Brits as to who needed Skripal dead. Use of gas is a very British tradecraft. The Brits have been gassing people since Churchill was War Minister in. 1905.
>do you have the list of names he gave up? I don't have it, and I don't think they'd publish the names officially. But this is a classic trait of agents who defect. Just googled a list of GRU defectors, and just one to mention is Vitaly Yurchenko who ratted on a few agents, although this case's ending is completely different from Skripal's.
Oliver Cruz
doesnt seem like it worked out in a political sense but its worthy of exploring
Sebastian Long
due to the number of victims its more likely theuse of a binary agent recieved by skin contact. seems unlikely uk would require something like this hidden, nobody in Britain made it part of an investigation into an incoming president, it was the demagogues who used it
Angel Adams
It’s very strange. I don’t know what to make of it. One thing that’s odd is that it was the daughter that was in possession of the nerve agent.
The Russians obviously killed that other guy with radioactive tea but this case seems kind of dumb for them to go through with considering all the background.
My 2 cents worth Nerve gas formula published in a book Russia vehemently denies accusations * deep state shifts across the pond to start and/or finish taking Putin into WWIII
Bullshit, because 8 fucking years have passed since Skripal was released. The timing to do this is really bad for someone aligned with Russia.
The west are masters of provocations. Plenty of examples (Yugoslavia, Iraq, Lybia, MH17, coups around Russia, Georgia's attack on Russian peacekeepers in 2008-08-08, Syria's "chemical attacks", etc., etc., etc.).