Bloody fuss about this Russian poisoning.

[David Vincent]

Tyrants almost always gain and consolidate their power by being the "great protector" against some internal or external threat.

You are saying Putin's motive is to consolidate power. But he doesn't need to do this. He can walk the elections because he is very popular with the voters. In the last election he got 64% of the vote and the nearest candidate got 17%.

It makes complete sense to me that this has played out in this way.

Are you under any medication at the moment? Nothing in May's claims about this affair make any sense unless it is a false flag op.or a mafia hit.

Russia poisons a man and his daughter, who was previously spying on the Russians, using a Russian made poison.

Why didn't they kill them when they were in Russia? They could have done it without any fuss.

They know that the British and other Western politicians will have to react to this with confrontational terms, but are hardly going to be able to do anything in practical terms.

They can and will do a lot to punish Russia. It is a PR disaster for Russia. Extra sanctions will seriously damage the Russian economy. The Americans and Israelis will get the green light from previously passive EU countries to step up their aggression in Syria and Eastern Europe. Do you see where this is heading? It is all about cui bono - who gains. Putin has nothing to gain from this but Israel and America now have an excuse to increase their predations.

Then Putin can deny responsibility, make out that the west are out to get them, look strong standing up to the evil west. This is the kind of thing that keeps an oppressive regime in power.

He can get elected without doing anything like that. What you are saying just doesn't make sense. Have you heard about Occam's Razor. You get a really nice shave.

Their line also gets taken up by the legions of useful idiots who think that the global elite is engineering their lives, a classic misdirection that Russia are so fond of. It generates doubt and dissent that reduces the effectiveness of any response that the west can take.

I'm afraid there is only one "useful idiot" here and I don't even think you are that useful.