Hillary Clinton 2.0 in the Making?
By ama jamus
In a hail-mary attempt to win the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats blamed their loss on Russia and President Putin. Who could’ve believed that the United States would blame another country, much less Russia for interfering in their elections when the CIA has a history of meddling in elections of other countries. The worst part is that not one shred of evidence has been presented to back these absurd claims.
Now, Prime Minister Theresa May and the Conservative party is invoking a page from the Hillary and the Democrats playbook:
blame Russia. In the attempted poisoning attack of a Russian M16 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with the Russian nerve agent Novichoks, the Tories are blaming the Russians and Putin for the attack. As an interesting side note, Sergei has ties to Christopher Steele and the Trump-Russia Dossier so I wouldn’t be surprised if the US or Hillary has a hand in this. The [UK] hasn’t presented one ounce of proof; just like the Democrats, it’s all just allegations.
In an emergency Cobra meeting in Whitehall, May proclaimed that, “There is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter - and for threatening the lives of other British citizens.”
On 27 September 2017, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced that Russia had destroyed its entire chemical weapons stockpile. Igor Morozov, a Russian upper house lawmaker was quoted as saying on the Sputnik website “Russia has stopped the production of … Novichok” and “completely destroyed all their reserves...in accordance with international agreements under the control of OPCW international observers.”
Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s representative at the UN Security Council, also assertion that “the Russian Federation there was no scientific research or development work under the title Novichok.”
What I find ironic is that the poisoning of Sergei happened in Salisbury, where nearby is the chemical-biological-radiological-nuclear (CBRN) training facility, the Defence CBRN Centre at Winterbourne Gunner which formerly produced nerve agents including VX. This facility has access to chemical weapons, as the name suggests and may have Novichok stock-piled there or least have access to the chemical weapon.
What makes the location of the attack suspicious besides the obvious is according to British ambassador Jonathan Allen, Novichok is “not a weapon which can be manufactured by non-state actors”. Allen adds, “It is so dangerous that it requires the highest-grade state laboratories and expertise.”.
Dr Patricia Lewis, research director for International Security at Chatham House adds that the “binary agents” are typically stored as two less toxic chemical ingredient and are created by “mixing unrestricted chemicals together” but would need but need “extremely specialist facilities with high levels of security and protections for workers”.
Both Allen and Lewis’ comments, the location of the attack, and the election are ingredients for a perfect storm of a conspiracy theory.
Unlike the Democrats who waited until they loss to blame Putin, May is possible pre-emptively blaming Putin for a possible loss of councils in this years local elections. It looks as if May and company may lose Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster, and Margaret Thatcher’s former seat of Finchley. If May does lose to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party, she may be forced to resign.
Overall, the Conservatives are defending 1,302 seats and control of 39 councils.
So if Theresa May loses, the British may have their own version of Hillary Clinton. She will follow suit and blame Putin for her loss with most likely no evidence to support her claims.