Of course Trump will have authorised it... he sold out to the Deep State to hold onto power. Surrounding himself with CIA and warhawks like Boulton is a self-preservation policy. Now we'll see a resumption of Deep State American Foreign Policy... which is to preserve power... meaning isolating China after dealing with Syria, Iran and Russia. The roadmap has been common knowledge for years.
So, rather than the Russians simply putting a bullet in a guys head or getting rid of him when he was in a Russian Jail for years, they elected to use an exclusively Soviet nerve agent on foreign soil, given 36 hours to explain it and denied access to any evidence... Rolleyes.., something doesn't add up.
..and the only
official word on the analysis cites a Novichok
class agent. Not only they cannot be sure of where it came from, they have not shown exactly what it is (which is something quite easy to do).
Furthermore -- and this is the important part -- the official explanation is the same one given in the immediate aftermath of the event. The whole theory is the one given without any technical analysis. It is at best a guess. In fact, even the wording on the official communications of all countries expelling Russian diplomats show that there is lack of evidence. I was sure nothing concrete was there when I read the joint communication from France and Germany. The expression used was "well founded".
Is it possible that the Russian
state did this? Yes. There are other possibilities? Hell yes. To begin with, I bet the list of private citizens/international criminals with some bile against a former double agent is not short.
As long as people take plausible theories as absolutely certain, post-truth will always rule.
