you “know” that “Russia has a pattern of this sort of behaviours” because the BBC told you so
No. Other reliable sources have also mentioned the stories I raised. Here is the UK police talking about the Russia-backed arson of a warehouse in London. And here on the UK government’s website you can find the report of the inquiry into the Salisbury poisonings (with a Russian chemical weapon) in 2018.
That inquiry which I mentioned was conducted by a senior judge, who concluded this:
Petrov, Boshirov and Fedotov were members of an operational team within the GRU – the Russian military intelligence agency responsible for foreign intelligence gathering. I am sure that, in conducting their attack on Sergei Skripal, they were acting on instructions. I have concluded that the operation to assassinate Sergei Skripal must have been authorised at the highest level, by President Putin.
Oh yeah, the Salisbury poisonings have more than enough evidence which was actually examined by a proper legal entity (not merelly the coppers).
It’s also literally the only case of Russian interference proven in the last couple of years and it wasn’t even against Britain, British Interests or Britons - it was an assassination of a Russian that happenned in Britain because that’s were he was living (though if I remember it correctly there were British victims though they were collateral damage rather than the target).
One case of the Russian State assassinating a Russia citizen in Britain, which was actually examined and confirmed by a proper legal entity, is not sufficient evidence to presume that every bad thing that happens in Britain against British Interests or Britons is done by Russia.
Mind you, I can understand how that highly publicized case (I was living in Britain at the time) convinced a lot of people that there was some kind of grand conspiracy targetting of Britain by Russia - most people (Britons or otherwise) don’t logically analyse these things, so its pretty easy for the local “opinion makers” to portray a single proven instance with massive press coverage as “evidence” of some grand conspiracy because if they don’t logically analyse things people tend to confuse “abundant and loud press coverage” with something being common and frequent (an error in human perception is very often exploited by politicians by making a mountain out of a molehill),
No. Other reliable sources have also mentioned the stories I raised. Here is the UK police talking about the Russia-backed arson of a warehouse in London. And here on the UK government’s website you can find the report of the inquiry into the Salisbury poisonings (with a Russian chemical weapon) in 2018.
That inquiry which I mentioned was conducted by a senior judge, who concluded this:
Oh yeah, the Salisbury poisonings have more than enough evidence which was actually examined by a proper legal entity (not merelly the coppers).
It’s also literally the only case of Russian interference proven in the last couple of years and it wasn’t even against Britain, British Interests or Britons - it was an assassination of a Russian that happenned in Britain because that’s were he was living (though if I remember it correctly there were British victims though they were collateral damage rather than the target).
One case of the Russian State assassinating a Russia citizen in Britain, which was actually examined and confirmed by a proper legal entity, is not sufficient evidence to presume that every bad thing that happens in Britain against British Interests or Britons is done by Russia.
Mind you, I can understand how that highly publicized case (I was living in Britain at the time) convinced a lot of people that there was some kind of grand conspiracy targetting of Britain by Russia - most people (Britons or otherwise) don’t logically analyse these things, so its pretty easy for the local “opinion makers” to portray a single proven instance with massive press coverage as “evidence” of some grand conspiracy because if they don’t logically analyse things people tend to confuse “abundant and loud press coverage” with something being common and frequent (an error in human perception is very often exploited by politicians by making a mountain out of a molehill),