Thursday briefing: Novichok and the case against Russia
Found on The Guardian on Thursday, 15 March 2018
Russia has been condemned at the UN security council for the Salisbury nerve agent attack, with allies lining up to back Britain’s assessment that Moscow bears responsibility.
Nikki Haley, striking a contrast to her strangely equivocal president, told the UN security council: “The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom using a military-grade nerve agent … The credibility of this council will not survive if we fail to hold Russia accountable.”
The United States also once believed that Saddam Hussein was mass-producing biological weapons to justify a first strike that brought chaos to the middle east. Russia is by far not innocent, but in those spy vs spy games, truth and honesty is always left outside.