Russian Assassins

HRH was preparing a post on Stormy Daniels.     "Stormy in a Double T Cup"-geddit?
But its been almost impossible to keep up.
This morning on the 'Morning Joe "show, her lawyer dropped a new bombshell

MICHA BREZINSKI:   Was your client Physically threatened ?
STORMY LAWYER :   YES

Cyclops finds it difficult to believe that there is anyone on the posting list who is not following this mishigas blow by blow.No vulgarity intended.
No doubt the vaunted Stormy "60 Minutes" interview will broadcast to a Superbowl sized audience and be  downloaded from You Tube millions of time from  Hangchow, Ulan Batur,Vladivostok,Timbuktu and Stettin in the Baltics.

So we may return to this subject of consummate importance but first below is a SERIOUS posting on
                                Russian Assassinations in the UK.


                              This is Serious Stuff.

The outrage in Salisbury England is the latest in a series of suspected murders/attempted murders  ordered by Putin in the the land of Cyclops birth.
The UK government -of both parties -has responded to these very weakly
Preferring to look the other way while Inquests returned "open" verdicts  on indeterminate deaths .

 You can hear the conversations at Whites in Pall Mall

• "So what if the Russians are bumping off some of their own" .
• "Most were probably unsavoury characters anyway".
• "Many were bloody Cosmopolitans or do we call them Globalists these days?"
• "Can't put all those legal and investment banking fees at risk old chap--my cousin works for several of these Oligarch chappies;and very generous fees they are too"
• "Would not want to lose our standing in the money laundering league--its the only one the UK tops--chortle,chortle"
• "Anyway if the Yanks don't care why should we?"

Salisbury has crossed a line.

• Unlike Berozovski,Litvinenko,Kara-Murza,Perepilichny in the UK and 
• Others poisoned outside of the UK
• The two Russians were British Citizens.
• Colonel Sergei Skripal was in England as a result of an explicit spy swap agreement.
• He and his family were under the direct protection of the British Secret Services
• There was collateral damage --a British Bobby hospitalised and
• 200 passers needed to be by checked by medical authorities.

The Russian response response to British outrage in parliament and in the media was to ridicule

the British establishments and the toothless security services.This was characterised by Prime Minister Theresa May in Parliament on Wednesday "the Russian reaction to the use of a nerve agent on British soil had been sarcasm, contempt, and defiance” 

So what is going on ? Why did Putin order this murder attempt?  Why now?

• First it should be noted that the nerve agent used is a very rare and powerful  poison
• That apparently only the Russian state possesses 
• This could not be accidental.
• Putin wants the world to know that he ordered the murders .
• Pour encouregez les autres
• It sends a very clear message to Russian dissidents and 
• To those inside their system who are spying or may choose to spy for the West.

  The theory that the timing is linked to the current Russian Presidential election seems implausible.

  That has already been fixed.

• More likely it is a part of a continuing programme eliminating Putin's enemies and opponents
• He is after all a psychopath following in a great Russian tradition
• A man unafraid to visit death upon enemies living in London,Paris,New York or Mexico City.
• Stalin must be proud.
• It also serves to reinforce the loyalty of the billionaire oligarchs who fawn on him
• They are reminded that their wealth--and health--derive from the man in the Kremlin.
• Most importantly perhaps,it serves to deflect the attention of the Russian people from their dire economic straits and the diminished standing of Russia in world affairs.
• This last obsesses Putin,and drives policy from Crimea to Syria and the Stans 
• and to interfering in democratic elections.
• Please note the parading and boasting of "enhanced " nuclear weaponry.
• Widely debunked by those of us who know the reality.

                                 Why Now?                                       Why Not?

Past outrages have dissipated into the sands of callous,venal  self interest.

Why would this be any different?

If the oligarchs keep the money flowing the UK will turn a blind eye to this too.

Its all part of the programme.
The assassination squads are part of a bureaucracy and they have their annual quotas to fulfill.

               But this time the outrage may have caught Putin's crew by surprise.

Why are the Brits so exercised by the attempted murder of one tubby colonel and his daughter?

One explanation is that it is simply the last straw.
The UK establishment has finally rediscovered some modicum of decency and courage.
Poisoning a UK citizen in the English shires is simply not on for a once great power.
Last night at the proms,Rule Britannia,Land of Hope and Glory  and "Britons shall be Free"

Cyclops is really quite old.
Yet hope springs eternal for the land of his birth and the refuge for his holocaust surviving parents.
The Mother of Parliaments and of Representative Democracy.
No England.No cyclops.Lest  we Forget.
So HRH chooses not to rule out that the UK reaction is based on PRINCIPLE.

But in addition : two further explanations

 I] Theresa May has been presented with her Falklands and
      even she is not so stupid to miss the opportunity.
 2] There is even more to this than meets the eye.

Lets look at the second first

                                                First #2

 When the incident occurred the UK Government response was ritual outrage,a declaration of Russian culpability and a call on its NATO allies for solidarity.

The US State Department response from REX[the oil king] TILLERSON was to accept the BRITISH accusation and to condemn  RUSSIA.
TRUMPSKI's White House demurred.
TILLERSON  was fired the next day.
Just a coincidence.

In FRANCE,MACRON hedged.Sought "more evidence".
A blatant manoevering for advantage of some kind over Les Anglais.
So jejeune!

GERMANY'S,MERKEL was immediately in support of the British response.
The German's have the best intelligence network in the Kremlin,
Followed by Mossad,who are staying out of this one.

In the UK itself all parties supported the Prime Minister
Except for comrades CORBYN and MILNE.
His front and back benches were furious.
Devastated by this umpteenth "last straw".
More on the intra UK farrago anon.


Within a day of this luke warm support from her allies
The big four USA,UK,GERMANY and FRANCE were fully on board.
Theresa May's office privately  briefing the media on her diplomatic prowess and
tough stance with the allies.

Much more likely,the US and FRANCE were briefed by British and German intelligence
on reality and on future SOVIET  RUSSIAN intentions.
France's DGSE forcefully educated young Macon.
The CIA did the same with TRUMPSKI

As of today NATO and the big four are speaking with one voice.
Putin is wondering whether he has over played his hand.
Beneath the expected bluster,expect a recalibration.

There is more to this than meets the eye.
If  CYCLOPS posted any more it would be necessary to contemplate regicide.
           
                                                    WHAT OF #1

"Theresa May has been presented with her Falklands and even she is not so stupid to miss the opportunity."

Even as HRH writes that sentence ........

Given her history CYCLOPS must be wary of  predicting any political nous to Muddling May but can she miss such an open goal?

She has been delivered an unsolicited "FALKLANDS"

It is forgotten that in 1982 before the idiot Argentine Generals invaded that benighted far off  British sheep territory--for reasons not dissimilar to Putin's, i.e. to distract from domestic failure--Thatcher's approval ratings were in low 30s% and rocketed to over 50% once the British Armada sailed.
She then won the the 1983 election over  a Michael Foot led Labour Party by 15% points.

• Going into this "crisis " May's Tories  lead Corbyn's Labour 42-39%.
• Corbyn's response has caused total dismay in his parliamentary party as he yet again finds it impossible to condemn the Kremlin Killer.
• Watch May's poll lead widen---depending on how she plays a now winning hand.

HRH CYCLOPS is not impressed with her early early response:lots of  blah blah and the expulsion of a couple of dozen spies.

• This has proved initially popular with the UK media,parliament and people.
• But it is  hardly likely to have the Kremlin shaking the snow off its boots.

Assuming UK not prepared for tit for tat poisoning in Moscow

• Then the test must be the action taken against the direct financial interests of Putin and friends.
• There are dozens of rich Russians who have laundered fortunes into the UK
• Thousands of expensive homes are owned by shell companies fronting for these crooks.
• A dozen billionaire friends of Putin have salted away fortunes in the UK ,the British Virgin Islands and Guernsey .
• Their families live primarily in London
• The yachts are kept in Monte Carlo
•  Roman Abromovich owns Chelsea.  
•   Alisher Usmanov owns 30% of Arsenal.

                    Where did the all this  money come from?

• Both  Abromovich and Usmanov are personal "friends" of Putin.
• Both are reported to have diverted billions into Putin's personal accounts.
• They thrive.
• Putin's Oligarch enemies not so much.
• Boris Berezovsky,originally Abromovich's mentor, found hanged at wife's home in Berkshire,England.
• His friend  Nikolai Glushkov was found murdered in London this week.
• In absentia, Glushkov was sentenced last year by a Putin court to 8 years .
• He had already served 5 years from 1999-2004 on other charges. 
• Michaele Khodorovsky once the richest man in Russias crossed Putin.
• Eighteenth on Forbes rich list, he served over a decade in Russian prisons on "tax" charges.
• He settled in London but has abandoned England for secret exile in Switzerland.
• No longer a billionaire.

All of these men are are/were crooks  but some thrive ,some die.
Some prefer to live in "Switzerland" because England is not safe from Putin's assassins


So what is stopping May's Government from freezing and then confiscating the assets of Putins  money men?

Nothing except the will.

• Sure BP may lose its 20% stake in Rosneft-
• High risk ventures are high risk ventures.
• Ask Tillerson's Exxon how his signature,legacy deal with Rosneft is doing.
• It was cancelled two weeks ago.
• Exxon revenue loss about $150 billion.
• As Cyclops has noted "any fool can run Exxon".
• Those fees Tory lawyers,bankers,fixers and sundry relatives of grandees earned from Usmanov et al. ?
• Nice while it lasted.
• Party is over.
• It is inconceivable that even the British security services do not have ample dossiers of evidence that shows these assets were acquired with ill gotten,laundered money under the protection of Putin.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to General Viola's invasion of the Falklands by sending the fleet.
She ignored the whining of those with business interests in Argentina--UK second largest foreign investor.
She shrugged of the concerns of British[and US] lenders to Argentina and Argentine companies.
She may or may not have been wise to respond in this way.

But she acted decisively and reaped the political benefits

                   Will May have the same political courage?

If so:
She will seize Oligarch assets,returns Chelsea to a "fit and proper person",expel Russian crooks from the UK and expose Putin's machismo preening.
Corbyn will become a smaller footnote in Britsh  electoral history than Michael Foot.
At least Foot read--and wrote--books for himself.

If not:
 May will get several chapters on how not to be a politician in a proud democracy