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The Skripal case, where the Kremlin allegedly decided to wait until their supposed assassination target, a spy, made it all the way back home to Britain from Russia, where they had been for some time, used a banned chemical nerve agent, which would naturally be traced back to them, during the final days of their own presidential election, and at a time when the West was chomping at the bits for anything and everything they could get their hands on to blame on Russia, and where the Kremlin’s agents failed to actually get the job done, is rapidly losing weight on the credibility scale.

On the eve of the meeting of the OPCW’s executive council – convened by Russia and scheduled for tomorrow – we have had a highly revealing succession of statements about the Skripal case from the British authorities.

Russia created a criminal case surround the Skripal poisoning and has offered to assist the UK in their investigation. A request from the Russian Investigative Committee went to the Prosecutor General’s Office to be related to the British Authorities. This request essentially asks the British investigators to furnish what evidence they might have on the case to date, be it documents and/or medical examination results from the victims. RAPSI, Russian Legal Information Agency reports:

Talk about Life imitating Art.

Could it really be this simple? Just to give a little background information on this video, it was uploaded to YouTube in 2016.  The video is from Yes Prime Minister – a British comedy TV program from the 1980s.
 
 
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In a recent article for The Duran I said that the EU Council on Thursday would issue a statement which appeared to give full-throated support to Britain’s position in the Skripal case, but which on close study would not do so.

In my previous article about the failure of Britain’s allies to give Britain the strong support it expected in the Skripal case I predicted that the EU Council meeting on 22nd March 2018 would publish a statement which appeared to be strongly supportive of Britain but which on careful examination would turn out to be less than it seemed.

Donald Trump’s latest tweets saying that the US should aim for better relations with Russia underscores a crucial point about the Skripal case: the British are failing to win the support of their allies that they seem to have expected.
At this point it is necessary to say something about the British diplomatic strategy last week,

In evidence on Wednesday to the House of Commons’ foreign policy select committee, Boris Johnson was unable to provide evidence directly linking Russia to the attack on Sergey and Yulia Skripal.
Instead he provided conclusive evidence (if more such evidence were needed) of his total unfitness for public office.

Several European players are mulling the idea of adding additional sanctions against Iran in the hopes that such actions would placate Washington into remaining a part of the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Originally appeared at Consortium
Applying the principle of cui bono – who benefits? – to the case of Sergei Skripal might lead investigators away from the Kremlin as the prime suspect and towards Western intelligence agencies, argues James O’Neill.