From warmfuzzy@700:100/0 to All on Mon Nov 19 20:24:14 2018
What do these two chemicals have in common? They are both produced by the Russian government and are both used as a statement to the world when they
are used because they can only be developed by a nation-state actor. So simply using these chemicals is a clear statement that the murder was government approved. The Russian government of course denies everything, but they do
this in the face of the fact that a producer of such chemicals would by necessity be a state actor. The polonium poisioning of Alexander Litvinenko
by the radioactive Polonium-210 was a statement that whoever posioned him had access to nuclear material. The poisioning of the Skripal's in the UK was the second attack against former Russian intelligence agents in the UK in the
last few years. Russia wants the world to know that if you betray their intelligence aparatus you will be hunted down and killed, wherever in the world you may be. Their foreign policy is criminal, but they want so much to be considered a World Super Power again that they don't really care about how they are perceived by foreign intelligence agencies apart from themselves.